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Branch Lines Of Warwickshire by Colin Maggs w/ dust jacket
Branch Lines Of Warwickshire by Colin G. Maggs
Hard Cover with Dust Jacket
146 pages
Copyright 1994
Contents
Introduction1
Water Orton to Streetly4
The Kingsbury Branch11
The Stonebridge Railway: Whitacre to Hampton-in-Arden16
Monument Lane to Harborne23
Kenilworth to Berkswell28
Warwick to Nuneaton32
Rugby to Leamington and Warwick47
Flecknoe to Marton Junction57
Studley and Astwood Bank to Salford Priors62
Broom Junction to Stratford-upon-Avon and Fenny Compton69
The Edge Hill Light Railway: Burton Dassett to Sunrising86
The Stratford and Moreton Railway and the Shipston-on-Stour Branch88
Long Marston to Stratford-upon-Avon102
Hatton to Stratford-upon-Avon107
Wilmcote to Shirley123
Rowington Junction to Henley-in-Arden138
Bearley to Alcester142
Introduction
At first the railway map of Warwickshire seems very complicated, but on close inspection a pattern emerges. Towards the north is the London and Birmingham Railway, which later became part of the London and North Western Railway, its Warwickshire portion running between Rugby and Birmingham. South of this artery a branch ran to Leamington, Warwick and Daventry and another northwards to Nuneaton. South-west of the LNWR was the Great Western Railway. This company had a parallel line from Birmingham to London which kept a respectful distance from that of its rival; in fact in Warwickshire neither company made inroads into the other's territory.
The Midland Railway's main line in the area was that which ran from Bristol and Gloucester through Birmingham to Derby. One Warwickshire branch was the Studley and Astwood Bank to Salford Priors section of the Barnt Green to Ashchurch loop; another the Whitacre to Hampton-in-Arden branch connecting with the LBR; the third MR branch being the Water Orton to Streetly section of the Walsall line. The Stratford-upon-Avon and Midland Junction Railway ran from Broom Junction, on the Barnt Green to Ashchurch line, to Towcester on the Northampton and Banbury line making connections with the MR, GWR, GCR and LNWR, but unfortunately for its finances did not give or take much through traffic.
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