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GWR Route: Moreton-in-Marsh to Shipston-on-Stour

Moreton-in-Marsh Station: gwrmm3068

View of the original 1853 Moreton-in-Marsh station built by the Oxford, Worcester & Wolverhampton Railway

View of the original 1853 Moreton-in-Marsh station built by the Oxford, Worcester & Wolverhampton Railway (OW&WR) . Mark Turner writes in an article in British Railway Journal No 29 Christmas 1989 which accompanied this rare photograph of the station in its timber incarnation, 'the main station building appears to be a standard OW&WR structure, similar to the stations which existed at Chipping Camden, Handborough and Adlestrop until their closure and demolition in 1966. The island platform building survived rather longer than the main station (sic), being used as a waiting room up until its replacement in 1965-66 when considerable modernisation took place at the station'. The building to the left is Blenheim Farm, one of Morton's principal farms. In front of the farm house is a small building with a tall chimney thought to be a pump house for the adjacent water tower, which appears to be constructed in timber which according to Mark, 'was quite usual for this period.' The water tower was later replaced by a version built in steel (see image 'gwrmm987') which was thought to have been erected in the 1880s.

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