GWR Route: Banbury to Wolverhampton

GWR Route: North Warwickshire Line

Henley in Arden - Old Station: gwrha656

Some three years after the closure of the goods yard on 31st December 1962 there is still some evidence of the railway the most obvious being the derrick crane standing in the middle of the yard. The piles of coal and coke seem to indicate that the yard is still being used by the local coal merchants although in this instance the coal was brought in by road. Coal brought in by rail or road would be placed in 1cwt bags (cwt is short for 100 weight equivalent to 50.8 kilos) to be transhipped to the homes and businesses in the area..

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