LMS Route: Hampton in Arden to Whitacre

Coleshill later Maxstoke Station: mrcm172

View of crippled wagons stored on the Packington Hall Estate siding which was constructed on part of the original formation with the Chester Road bridge beyond. The siding was one and half miles north of Hampton on the east side of the line and could store eight wagons, traffic being coal inwards and timber outwards. It was decommissioned by 1930 although saw service later as part of the truncated lines function of storing crippled wagons. C1956

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