GWR Route: The North Warwickshire Line

GWR Route: Stratford on Avon to Hatton

Stratford on Avon Shed: gwrsa1448

View of the East end of Stratford on Avon shed's combined coal stage and water tank in September 1956. Coal for the locomotives was carried in the GWR's own departmental wagons with 'loco coal' painted on their sides and shunted up the ramp to the upper level to be positioned alongside the coaling station. The height of the embankment was designed to allow staff to shovel the coal direct from the floor of the 'loco coal' wagons into the small tubs that ran at 90° to the wagon track, through the coaling station, and then on to the 'draw bridge' type door which carried rails and upturned at the end to allow the tubs to be tilted upwards and emptied into the bunker or tender.

Robert Ferris

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