GWR Route: Alcester to Hatton Junction

Claverdon Station: gwrc927

In April 1939 three months before the old station closed and the new double track and station were opened, this photograph was taken from the road bridge abutment. The construction work is substantially complete, but the signals are marked out of use and two sleepers mark the position of the future head-shunt buffer. Comparison with photograph gwrc925, which was taken in March 1939 shows that new point rodding and signal wires had been installed under the platform edge and it may be that this work had required the temporarily closure of the original line. The train is a Leamington to Stratford local hauled by Great Western 5101 Class 2-6-2T No 5162. No 5162 was built at Swindon in November 1930, had been allocated to both Tyseley and Leamington sheds before withdrawn from Horton Road Shed, Gloucester (85B) in July 1958 and scrapped at Swindon in November 1958. The coaches include a turn of the century brake third (or tri-composite) with guard’s lookout.

Robert Ferris

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