LMS Route: Stratford Midland Junction - The Shakespeare Route

E&WJR and SMJ - Locomotives and Rolling Stock: smjsa121

View of the Ro-Railer passing through Stratford on Avon and the old Shakespeare Theatre on its way to the station to Blisworth. The Ro-Railer has travelled along the Warwick to Stratford upon Avon road from the Welcombe Hotel, which was then owned by the LMS Railway, and had just passed Bancroft Gardens. The name Welcombe is derived from the Anglo-Saxon words Weill (a spring) and Combe (a valley). Privately built in 1866, the Welcombe Hotel was an imposing Jacobean mansion in the Calendar House style which was designed with 7 entrances (days of the week) 12 fireplaces (months of the year) 52 chimneys (weeks in a year) and 365 windows (days in a year). This feature was said to infuse luck and prosperity to everyone who stayed.

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