LMS Route: The Shakespeare Route

Kineton Station: smjk29

Looking across from the cattle dock siding to the signal box. The village of nearby Little Kineton was the headquarters of the Warwickshire Hunt whose territory went as far as Broom. Consequently the SMJ offered their services to transport the Hunt which led in 1909 to their purchasing a hound van from the Great Eastern. This together with a number of horse boxes were kept at Kineton and when used the inspector from Stratford upon Avon would attend to supervise the process.

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