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London North Western
Railway:
Midland
Railway:
Stratford
Midland Junction Railway
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LMS Route: The Shakespeare Route
Fenny Compton Station: smjfc179a
Close up of image 'smjfc179' showing the ex-E&WJR
station which had been closed for several years by the time this photograph was
taken. The station is frozen in time as it still has evident its LMS name
boards or 'running -in boards' to use the correct technical description. The
station closed on 7th April 1952 and this was just a little early for it to
receive British Railway's corporate signage which was implemented in the West
Midlands between 1953 to 1955. The evidence of new sleepers lying on both
platforms indicates that the line is being renewed, probably as part of the
work associated with the running of iron ore trains to South Wales via the new
curve installed at Stratford Old Town in 1960 connecting it to the GWR
Honeybourne line.
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