LMS Route: Evesham to Birmingham

Alcester Station: mra470

Looking from the LMS built signal box, opened on 24th April 1932, looking towards Redditch and the junction with the GWR's branch to Bearley which curves to the right in the summer of 1949. The coal stacking area to the extreme right was operated by Shrimptons whilst the hut and area beyond and under the trees was occupied by Butlers. Before 1930 the area beyond the coal merchants was used for 3 oil storage tanks and ancillary buildings. In addition to farm produce, outgoing traffic from local industries would have included furniture from the cabinet works owned by the Ison brothers, leather goods, brushes, and goods from the Minerva needle works, which, by the 1930s, had been taken over by Terrys, a Redditch company manufacturing springs.

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