LMS Route: Evesham to Birmingham

Alcester Station: mra1291

Looking north during the 1930s towards Redditch from the down platform with the goods shed seen on the right. The goods shed was equipped with a platform mounted hand operated fixed crane with a 30 CWT Safe Working Load capacity. The line running in front of the goods shed divided into two sidings with the nearest running in to a loading dock for the transhipment of road vehicles etc. The other line which remained parallel to the goods shed, served four cattle or livestock pens. This would serve the local livestock market held in Alcester each Thursday, by HJ Rowley who had a sale yard and abattoir adjacent to the station, when several loads of cattle would be dispatched, notably to Birmingham.

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