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GWR Route: North Warwickshire Line

Henley in Arden - New Station: gwrha472

Looking towards Stratford upon Avon and the down bay from the Birmingham end of the down platform during the 1960s

Looking towards Stratford upon Avon and the down bay from the Birmingham end of the down platform during the 1960s. The passenger footbridge extended the full width of the station although the canopy protecting the footbridge from the elements only existed between the two sets of platforms. It must be assumed that as the footbridge was extended beyond the island platform only because of the legal obligation on the GWR to provide the right of way, the GWR's attitude was to provide only the basic facility. The station has not significantly changed since it first opened the primary difference being the replacement of gas lighting with electric lighting authorised in 1947, the GWR's last year of independence before being nationalised to become part of British Railways.

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