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GWR Route: Banbury to Wolverhampton
Olton Station: gwro3987
A survey map of the Birmingham & Oxford Junction railway
dated 1878 shows the land purchased by the railway shaded pink. Olton Station
was built on a large plot of land purchased from the Addison Trustees in
Agreement No 18858 dated 2nd January 1854. The map indicates that the railway
bisected this plot leaving a large field (10 acres, 2 roods and 22 perch,
equivalent to 4¼ hectares) on the opposite side to the main station
building. The survey map also indicates that this land was sold to West Kent
& Co Ltd in an agreement dated 17th May 1938.
Robert Ferris
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