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LMS Route: Evesham to Birmingham & the SMJ Railway

Broom Junction Station: mrbj1319

Schematic drawing of Broom Junction station and the northern and southern approaches

Schematic drawing of Broom Junction station and the northern and southern approaches. The layout of the station does not lend itself to the MR's Banana trains being taken forward on to the SMJ line by the same locomotive. Each train of Banana vans would need to be reversed into one of the two sets of sidings located to the south of the station. An SMJ locomotive would be standing at the south end of the siding ready receive the train. After being coupled to the train of vans, the SMJ locomotive would then have to reverse the train back out of the siding and through the junction and bridge before it would then move forward on to the line to Stratford upon Avon. Trains of empty vans would require this procedure to be reversed. This convoluted procedure finally cease in 1942 when the south curve was built allowing trains to run directly on to the Stratford upon Avon line.

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