LMS Route: Evesham to Birmingham

Alcester Station: mra133

Looking towards Redditch along the up platform with the GWR's Bearley to Alcester branch auto trailer standing in the goods yard. The GWR would run mixed trains along the branch which would require shunting when at Alcester, during which time the trailer would be stored in the goods yard. The station appears little changed from the Edwardian photographs except for the signal box in the distance which was opened on 24th April 1932 replacing two other boxes: one at the junction, the other at the south end of the down platform. The practice of combining two signal boxes accelerated in the post First World War period when labour costs became relatively more significant than previous. The saving to the LMS, the Midland Railways's successor, at Alcester would be the equivalent of at least two if not three signalmen.

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