LMS Route: Evesham to Birmingham
Broom Junction Station: mrbj156b
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Close up of image 'mrbj156' showing the grounded coach body, hut
and wheeled ramp in Broom Junction's goods yard. The wheeled ramp was used to
load and unload livestock from cattle wagons or horse boxes stabled in the
yard. Normally a station would be provided with a landing dock to facilitate
the unloading of livestock. Arthur Jordan records in his book The Stratford
upon Avon & Midland Junction Railway, that Broom Junction didn't
justify a goods shed all it had was a coal siding. The two structures in the
yard are a secure building with a tiled roof and a grounded coach body and a
redundant ex-Midland Railway four-wheel carriage. On the left is a loading
gauge which appears to have two profiles hanging from the arm. If this is a
correct assumption then one would be to a Midland Railway profile and the other
to an SMJ profile. The point lever seen in image 'mrbj537b' has been replaced
with just a simple affair without the weight at the end. The ground signals
have also been replaced probably when the signalling was upgraded with the new
1934 signal box.
From the John Mann collection supplied by Nick
Catford of www.disused-stations.org.uk/
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