LMS Route: Evesham to Birmingham

Redditch Station: mrred418

The coaling stage at Redditch which was a very rudimentary structure being built from railway sleepers. The shelter was thought by Bob Essery to have been a later addition. The degree of manual labour involved in the days of steam is well illustrated in the image above because the coal would have been unloaded by hand from a wagon similar to that seen on the left and then loaded into the tender.

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