GWR Route: Stratford on Avon to Honeybourne

Sancta Lane Station: gwrsanct3919

Internal correspondence from the Worcester District Goods Manager dated 15th September 1891:

Dear Sir,

Further to my letter of 4th instant, I have now received particulars of the exchange traffic over this junction, which is sufficiently heavy to warrant our continuing to keep it open.

The receipt from the E&W Jct Loco Coal alone amounted to £954 in the past 12 months & if the junction was closed we might lose this.

Have you any information showing what the cost of locking (£325) spoken of by Mr Lambert, really includes – Is it to lock the junction in accordance with the proposed new working with Annett’s Key & provide the additional sidings required.

If it is, I do not see how we can do otherwise than confirm what we have already stated on the matter – please reply fully.

Yours truly

PC Cleasby

Later correspondence identified that the annual quantity of wagons exchanged over the junction in 1893. This amounted to 858 loaded, plus 674 empties transferred to the E&WJR and 706 loaded, plus 730 empties received from them. The amount of revenue collected from this traffic amounted to:

£1,338. 5s from E&WJR for coal
£63. 11s. 7d from Messer’s Flowers & sons
£54. 5s from Messer’s Walkers
£36. 12s from Messer’s Lucy & Nephew (Private Siding)

A sketch on the correspondence shows the GWR single line branch with a refuge siding parallel to this, which is truncated just prior to the Evesham Road level crossing. The switch from the GWR branch to the E&WRJR exchange sidings is just in-front of the siding switch. Beyond the level crossing is the disconnected loop referred to in the letter.

Robert Ferris

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