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

Moreton-in-Marsh Station: gwrmm3140

The original warehouses built from Cotswold stone at the Tramway terminus in Moreton-in-Marsh can be seen in this photograph taken in 1954. Originally several sidings and a weighbridge were located in front of these warehouses. In 1835 this large warehouse was leased from the Stratford & Moreton Railway by Mr Greaves and occupied by Mr R Beman, who also occupied the first smaller warehouse building on the right, together with several outside wharf areas. According to local trade directories Robert Beman was a corn, coal, slate and timber merchant.

The construction of the Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway (OWWR) severed the original tramway route just short of these warehouse buildings in 1853. The tramway was diverted into the new OWWR station leaving the tramway sidings outside the warehouses stranded and the rails here appear to have been removed at this time. In 1907, the Great Western Railway authorised work at Moreton-in-Marsh station, which included two new mileage sidings in the area in-front of these warehouses. The location of the warehouses in relation to the OWWR station can be seen in the aerial photograph 'gwrmm982', and a another view of the same warehouses appears in 'gwrmm978'.

Robert Ferris

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