GWR Route: The North Warwickshire Line

GWR Route: Stratford on Avon to Hatton

Stratford on Avon Station: gwrsa1539

View of the throat to the sidings at Stratford on Avon station's goods yard, Flower & Sons Brewery and the local gas works. The sidings at the top proceeding in to the New Brewery once continued as a single line across Birmingham Road to the Brick Works of which there were, according to the 1914 Ordinance Survey map two separate sites. One was immediately opposite whilst another, reached by sidings that turned 90° by wagon turntable, extended some distance up Birmingham Road to the Shakespeare Brick Works which was situated where Tesco's petrol station and car parking stands today in 2010. At the bottom of the photograph is the outer pair of the two sets of tracks which approach Stratford on Avon station from the North, being constructed in 1908 to a more generous curve than the original 1863 pair of tracks, the latter became relegated to carriage sidings.

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