GWR Route: North Warwickshire Line

Henley in Arden - New Station: gwrha474

Looking towards Birmingham showing the down platform building on the right accommodating the main facilities of the station whilst a railmotor is seen standing at the up platform. The building accommodated a station master's office, parcels and cloak room, booking office, booking hall, general waiting room, ladies waiting room with adjoining ladies lavatory, and at the far end, the gentlemen's lavatory. In their article in the Great Western Journal No 11 Summer 1994, Roger Carpenter & Chris Turner state, 'By the 1930s a separate wooden cycle shed had been added at the Stratford end nearest the camera, adjacent to which was an oil store used primarily for signal lamping. The gas lighting was converted to electricity following authorisation in March 1947.

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