GWR Route: Banbury to Wolverhampton

GWR Route: North Warwickshire Line

Henley in Arden - Original Station: gwrha656

View of Henley-in-Arden's now abandoned goods yard showing the timber storage sheds to the right of the white timber structure. Its three years since the closure of the goods yard on 31st December 1964 and there is still some evidence of the railway the most obvious being the 5 ton hand-operated derrick crane standing in the middle of the yard. A weighbridge was also located in this area to weigh goods into and out of the yard. The piles of coal and coke seem to indicate that the yard is still being used by the local coal merchants although in this instance the coal was brought in by road. Coal brought in by rail or road would be placed in one cwt bags (cwt is short for 100 weight equivalent to 50.8 kilos) to be transhipped to the homes and businesses in the Henley-in-Arden area.

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