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GWR Route: Banbury to Wolverhampton
Hatton Station: gwrsa4006
Great Western Railway Land survey plan initially drawn 1884
1885. The plan shows the land acquired by the Stratford Railway to build
their Birmingham Road terminus station at Stratford-upon-Avon. This was at the
end of their single line branch from the junction with the Birmingham &
Oxford Junction Railway at Hatton. The plan also shows the extension opened on
24th July 1861 to connect the Stratford Railway to the West Midland
Railways (ex Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railways) branch
from Honeybourne. The new Through (Alcester Road) Station for
Stratford-upon-Avon is just on the edge of the plan (top left). Once this had
been constructed the old Birmingham Road terminus became the Goods Depot for
the town.
The plan records that in 1868 the Stratford Railway Company
purchased land from the brewers Flowers and Sons on the north edge
of the old Birmingham Road terminus, while on the south side several parcels of
land alongside the Canal (hatched Blue) were sold in 1876 to the
Stratford-upon-Avon Gas Company. Both the Brewery and Gas Company had private
sidings. The engine turntable specified in the Board of Trade Requirements (see
'gwrhj4003') can be seen close to the boundary with
the Brewery.
Robert Ferris
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