GWR Route: Banbury to Wolverhampton

Hatton Station: gwrhj1928

Hatton's main passenger building located on the up platform as seen circa 1960 from the passenger footbridge. The brick structure on the left was in fact the gentlemen's toilets. Hanging on the side of the brick wall are six fire buckets filled with sand. During the days of steam locomotives the risk of of a fire breaking was an ever present danger. The ejection of sparks and embers from passing locomotives could be dangerous as was to prove to be the case at Coundon Station in Coventry when a passing train ejected embers from its chimney resulting in the up platform buildings burning down.

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