·  LMS  ·  GWR  ·  LNER  ·  Misc  ·  Stations  ·  What's New  ·  Video  ·  Guestbook  ·  About

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

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

back