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London North Western
Railway:
Midland
Railway:
Stratford
Midland Junction Railway
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LMS Route: The Shakespeare Route
Kineton Station: smjk87
An SMJ 2-4-0T stands at the head of a passenger train
en-route to Woodford & Hinton with an SMJ horse box and two Great Central
Railway carriages bound for Marylebone, London. Kineton was in the heart of a
rich agricultural area of Warwickshire with the headquarters of the
Warwickshire Hunt situated at nearby Little Kineton. Part of the Hunts
territory lies in the far-flung west of the county which explains why the SMJ
bought a hound van from the Great Eastern Railway in 1909. This van together
with a number of horse boxes was kept at Kineton and all were used to convey
horses, riders and hounds to Broom Junction for meets in that area. At such
meetings the inspector from Stratford-upon-Avon would attend to supervise the
loading and despatch of this important traffic. The photographer is standing on
the road looking down on the up platform. In the foreground can be seen an open
gate which was at the bottom of the pathway from Wellesbourne Road.
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