LMS Route: Evesham to Birmingham

Broom Junction Station: mrbj539b

Close up of image 'mrbj539' showing an unidentified ex-LMS 2-6-0 at the head of an Ashchurch train as it passes over the junction. On the right are the sidings used to facilitate the exchange of traffic between the MR line to Gloucester and the SMJ line to the Midlands and London. This was the original junction installed to accommodate the SMJ entering Broom station and the first box was named Broom South. In 1942 the need to carry wartime traffic via the SMJ to the South West without the time consuming procedure of reversing at Broom Junction resulted in an addition connection a little further south from this location.

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