GWR Route: Banbury to Wolverhampton

Hatton Station: gwrhj4002

Extract from the Great Western Railway Public Timetable for July, August and September 1887, showing the passenger trains on the Hatton to Stratford-on-Avon and Bearley to Alcester lines.

The main service runs between Leamington and Worcester, but a number of these services terminated at Stratford-on-Avon. The timetable also shows previous and onward connections in all directions. At this stage the north curve was unavailable, so passengers from Birmingham Snow Hill to Stratford-on-Avon had to change at Hatton Station. Stopping at Hatton would add to journey times, so three up express trains from Birmingham detached a slip carriage at Hatton (10:30am, 4:18pm and 5:38pm) instead. This carriage would be attached to the next Leamington to Stratford-on-Avon train when it arrived at Hatton. Two trains from Birmingham neither stopped at Hatton nor detached a slip carriage there and these required passengers for Stratford-on-Avon to continue to Warwick Station where they needed to alit and change to the Leamington to Stratford-on-Avon train. In the reverse direction down trains from London Paddington stopped at Leamington where passengers would be advised to change to the local train for Stratford-on-Avon. One exception was the afternoon express from Paddington to Birmingham, which detached a slip carriage at Leamington (6:58pm). This was attached to the next Stratford-on-Avon train.

Robert Ferris

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