GWR Route: Hatton to Bearley and Alcester Branch Junction

Aston Cantlow: gwrac1

View of the single line halt showing the wooden platform and small corrugated iron shelter

As with all railway companies the GWR kept expenditure on local branch lines to a minimum. One method was to build basic wooden platforms and simple waiting accommodation on unmanned stations with no goods facilities. This view of the single line halt shows the 200’ long by 8’ wide wooden platform being served by a small corrugated iron shelter and four oil lamps.

The Alcester branch line closed at the start of WW2, but both Great Alne and Aston Cantlow Halt reopen again in 1941. This was to enable workers from Coventry to get to the Maudslay Motors shadow factory, which had been relocated to Great Alne after its Coventry premise had been damaged by bombing. C1940-1

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