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LMS Route: Evesham to Birmingham

Broom Junction Station: mrbj156b

Close up showing the grounded coach body, hut and wheeled ramp in Broom Junction's goods yard

Close up of image 'mrbj156' showing the grounded coach body, hut and wheeled ramp in Broom Junction's goods yard. The wheeled ramp was used to load and unload livestock from cattle wagons or horse boxes stabled in the yard. Normally a station would be provided with a landing dock to facilitate the unloading of livestock. Arthur Jordan records in his book The Stratford upon Avon & Midland Junction Railway, that Broom Junction didn't justify a goods shed all it had was a coal siding. The two structures in the yard are a secure building with a tiled roof and a grounded coach body and a redundant ex-Midland Railway four-wheel carriage. On the left is a loading gauge which appears to have two profiles hanging from the arm. If this is a correct assumption then one would be to a Midland Railway profile and the other to an SMJ profile. The point lever seen in image 'mrbj537b' has been replaced with just a simple affair without the weight at the end. The ground signals have also been replaced probably when the signalling was upgraded with the new 1934 signal box.

From the John Mann collection supplied by Nick Catford of www.disused-stations.org.uk/

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