LMS Route: Stratford Midland Junction - The Shakespeare
Route
Stratford on Avon Station: smjsa53a
This close up of image 'smjsa53' shows the SMJ signal box
viewed from the East. The small corrugated hut to the right of the signal box
was where the SMJ fire-engine shed stood. This housed the Merryweather steam
fire engine which cost £115 in 1909. The fire-engine comprised a vertical
boiler and pump mounted on two large wheels, with an iron bar shaped in the
manner of shafts of a rickshaw to enable it to be moved to the scene of the
fire. Arthur Jordan commented that it "looked very impressive with its highly
polished brasswork, gleaming red paintwork and a column of smoke and steam
rising confidently from its chimney pipe".
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