LMS Route: The Shakespeare Route

Ettington Station: smje180

Diagram showing the more complex layout of Ettington station and goods yard as seen post 1925. Whilst the passenger station's facilities remain more or less the same as when first built, the goods facilities have been extensively modified and extended. At the Fenny Compton end of the down platform a lamp room has been constructed which would have been used by the signalman and station staff to store both parts and oil for the lamps being used to light the signals, station buildings and platforms. The goods yard has been extensively extended with an additional two sidings installed, one either side of the goods shed. The siding to the north of the goods shed is serving the coal wharf where the coal being brought in by local coal merchants would have been stacked, whilst the other is serving a cattle dock and pen located by the up platform and a carriage landing dock at the end of the siding. A Weighing Office and Weighing Machine is located at the end of the siding which would have been used not only by the coal merchants but by other non-railway users too. The above diagram the goods shed appears to have had an extension built which is supported by the outline of a now demolished low structure seen in image 'smje13a'. The head shunt has been removed from the station layout and a loading gauge installed on the siding to the goods yard.

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