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Stratford-on-Avon Railway
All photographs of this railway in date order.
![Northbound at Wilmcote.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/7000/7059.jpg "Wilmcote")
![Bulleid 'West Country' Pacific no 34027 <I>Taw Valley</I> with <I>The William Shakespeare</I> special at Stratford-upon-Avon on 30 December 1989.<br>
<br><br>[Peter Todd 30/12/1989]](/images/33000/33237.jpg "Stratford-upon-Avon")
![6024 <i>King Edward I</i> running a shuttle service between Tyseley and Stratford-upon-Avon on 15 April 1990.<br><br>[Peter Todd 15/04/1990]](/images/33000/33332.jpg "Stratford-upon-Avon")
![There is still plenty of evidence of GWR ownership at Stratford-upon-Avon station, as well as three operational platforms. London Midland Sprinter 150018 stands in fresh snow at Platform 1 on 11 January waiting to form a service to Stourbridge Junction via Birmingham Snow Hill. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 11/01/2010]](/images/27000/27201.jpg "Stratford-upon-Avon")
![The old main line through Broadway to Cheltenham appears to continue beyond Stratford's platforms, but in fact the buffers are just round the corner and this station has been a terminus since 1968. The line remained for freight only (avoiding the Lickey incline) until 1976 but a road has now been built over the old trackbed through part of the town. 150018, seen from the Great Western covered footbridge, is newly arrived from Stourbridge Junction and about to return there via Birmingham Snow Hill. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 11/01/2010]](/images/27000/27273.jpg "Stratford-upon-Avon")
![A Stratford-upon-Avon to Stourbridge Junction service, formed by 150005, leaves Wilmcote on 12 January. Immediately north of here is semaphore controlled Bearley Junction, where the Hatton line diverges, but this train will take the Henley-in-Arden line to Birmingham. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 12/01/2010]](/images/27000/27174.jpg "Wilmcote")
![Wilmcote was built in 1907 and many of its GWR features survive, although the station building seen here is in fact a private residence and cannnot be accessed from the platforms. This view from the footbridge is towards Stratford-upon-Avon, the next station and now terminus of the line. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 12/01/2010]](/images/27000/27179.jpg "Wilmcote")
![Grab shot from a Stratford-Upon-Avon to Marylebone train passing Hatton West Junction and about to join the main line south at Hatton station. The photograph shows the link line that runs between Hatton West and Hatton North Junctions. There are no standard scheduled services over this link, which is used to handle excursion specials (such as <I>The Shakespeare</I>) as well as empty stock movements. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 12/01/2010]](/images/27000/27188.jpg "Hatton West Junction")
![Chiltern Railways operate six through trains a day from Stratford-upon-Avon to Marylebone and these also provide the service on the branch from Bearley Junction to Hatton. 165014 calls at Wilmcote on 12 January just before joining the branch with the 1436 from Stratford. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 12/01/2010]](/images/27000/27315.jpg "Wilmcote")
![London Midland 172214 is the leading unit of a pair recently arrived at Stratford-upon-Avon platform 2 on 5 March 2014. After a short layover the units will head back across Birmingham to Stourbridge Junction.<br><br>[John McIntyre 05/03/2014]](/images/46000/46625.jpg "Stratford-upon-Avon")
![A passenger at Stratford-on-Avon Parkway runs for the 1656 to Stourbridge Junction, formed by 172219, on 28 March 2015. This recently opened station has long platforms, a large car park, frequent buses to the town centre and new housing nearby.<br><br>[Ken Strachan 28/03/2015]](/images/50000/50868.jpg "Stratford-upon-Avon Parkway")
![Opened in 2013, Stratford-upon-Avon Parkway still has a brand new feel about it two years later. 172337 makes its first stop on a London Midland Stratford-upon-Avon to Stourbridge Junction service on 15th June 2015. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 15/06/2015]](/images/51000/51666.jpg "Stratford-upon-Avon Parkway")
![A London Midland maintenance gang tidying Wilmcote station on 15th June 2015. This view towards Stratford was actually a <I>grab shot</I> taken from the top deck of an open top sightseeing bus as it crossed the line. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 15/06/2015]](/images/51000/51724.jpg "Wilmcote")
