LMS Route: The Shakespeare Route

Ettington Station: smje88b

Close up of image 'smje88' showing Ettington station's main passenger building during its heyday in the late 1920s. The main structure is adorned with posters both on the side, to each side of the main window and the adjacent single storey structure. The barrel on the corner is being used as a rainwater butt their being no drainage to the site. The toilets and other facilities displacing waste water would use a cess pit, a common practice for countryside residents. The light engine standing at the up platform, thought to be a LNWR 0-6-0 Coal Engine, standing opposite Ettington's signal box. The goods yard appears to be fenced off from the railway at the far end even to the point of a gate protecting the spur from the main line. The locomotive is standing on top of the boards covering the point rodding which crossed over between the two sets of rails. The locomotive is not travelling through otherwise the signalman could have directed him on to the down platform to make the hand over of the staff much easier. Its most likely that the locomotive is about to shunt the vehicles in the yard. The nearest crossing was installed for the benefit of the signalman so that he could cross from the down to the up platform without using the crossing at the far end of the platform.

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