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GWR Route: Alcester to Hatton Junction
Claverdon Station: gwrc925
Looking towards Hatton from the road bridge on 17th March
1939, just a few months prior to the opening of double track and new station on
2nd July 1939. After this date the old station was designated a
Goods lock up. In the yard what appears to be a coal
merchants lorry is being loaded with sacked coal from one of the wagons, while
behind the contractors mechanical excavator and stacks of tramway rail
lengths can be seen. The wagon nearest the camera is not a brake van, but a
workshop / tool van (diagram CC7) belonging to either the signalling or
engineering departments. These iron vans (notice the round corners) had
skylights in the roof to provide better illumination to the interior.
Robert Ferris
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