eaw030436 ENGLAND (1950). Wombourne Railway Station and environs, Wombourne, 1950
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Title | [EAW030436] Wombourne Railway Station and environs, Wombourne, 1950 |
Reference | EAW030436 |
Date | 20-June-1950 |
Link | |
Place name | WOMBOURNE |
Parish | WOMBOURNE |
District | |
Country | ENGLAND |
Easting / Northing | 387066, 293971 |
Longitude / Latitude | -2.190738420157, 52.543077678939 |
National Grid Reference | SO871940 |
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Bratch Locks on the Staffordshire and Worcestershire canal. |
Graeme |
Saturday 26th of April 2014 05:23:41 PM |
Orton Lane, Womborne |
Graeme |
Saturday 26th of April 2014 05:19:18 PM |
Station Road, Womborne |
Graeme |
Saturday 26th of April 2014 05:16:13 PM |
Bratch Lane, Womborne |
Graeme |
Saturday 26th of April 2014 05:15:28 PM |
Bilston Waterworks Pumphouse, Womborne |
Graeme |
Saturday 26th of April 2014 05:14:12 PM |
Quarry |
Class31 |
Thursday 24th of April 2014 08:14:56 AM |
This is quite an unusual sighting. We have here a drilling rig. These are often associated with drilling for oil but there are few English oilfields. Wytch Farm on Purbeck is one.
These rigs were also used for drilling for coal seams and could be used where ever geologists needed to know what was down there. |
Class31 |
Thursday 24th of April 2014 08:09:44 AM |
Canal |
Class31 |
Thursday 24th of April 2014 12:05:54 AM |
A closed passenger station on a single track ex Great Western Railway branch line. The signal box and water crane look to be of GWR design. |
Class31 |
Thursday 24th of April 2014 12:02:44 AM |
Womborne Station, closed in 1932 but still surviving today as a teashop on the adjacent South Staffordshie Walkway. |
Graeme |
Saturday 26th of April 2014 05:18:04 PM |
Wombourn railway station was the main intermediate station on the Wombourne Branch Line, situated at the Bratch. It was opened by the Great Western Railway in 1925 and closed in 1932. It was a grandiose affair with a goods yard and many station amenities. This, however, didn't stop poor patronage which led to the station's closure a mere seven years after opening. It remained in use for freight traffic until the line passing through the station was closed on 24 June 1965. The building survives, however, and is now a tearoom, popular with walkers, and an information centre. The station itself was named Wombourn, the standard spelling of the time, in preference to the spelling Wombourne. This is the result of a decision made by the Great Western Railway, who feared confusion with the similarly named Wimborne.][citation needed] Courtesy Wikipedia |
Class31 |
Saturday 26th of April 2014 05:56:13 PM |
User Comment Contributions
Thanks fro the help with this one. We’ll update the catalogue with the new location data and post the revised record here in due course. Yours, Katy Britain from Above Cataloguing Team Leader |
Katy Whitaker |
Tuesday 29th of April 2014 03:03:10 PM |
This looks like Womborne Station near Wolverhampton. |
Graeme |
Saturday 26th of April 2014 05:13:15 PM |