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LMS Route: The Shakespeare Route

Fenny Compton: smjfc95

View of the revised track layout enabling GWR traffic to join the SMJ

The track layout at Fenny Compton was revised in 1960 to permit iron ore trains from Banbury to run off the GWR main line onto the SMJ route to Stratford upon Avon where another new connection allowed the trains to join the GWR route to Honeybourne. The SMJ single line is on the left whilst the GWR main line are the two lines to the right. The second line from the left was the used as the crossover for down traffic from Banbury to Stratford upon Avon. This line continues to the GWR station where it rejoins the down GWR line.

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