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Tewkesbury railway station in 1964
Time Capsules
Tewkesbury railway station in 1964

Photo of a rather overgrown Tewkesbury train station. Tewkesbury was a station on the Midland Railway between Great Malvern and Evesham, England. It opened in 1840 but faced closure in 1961.
So this is three years worth of weed. By the looks of it not only the station closed but the whole line...


Photo © The Step Back Through Time Collection
Picture added on 26 July 2009
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Step back through Time, trains and stations
Comments:
Tewkesbury in 1961, before closure, with a pannier tank and a single coach at the platform on the left. Photograph by Ben Brooksbank, on the Geograph site:
www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1717922
By that date I think the branch train merely connected with the main line at Ashchurch
Added by Martin Bodman on 20 March 2010
More on Tewkesbury's railways. In 1840 the branch ran to a terminus in the town, to the south of this station. There was an engine shed too, on the now freight only spur, active in 1949; see Ben Brooksbank's shot here:
www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2175132
Added by Martin Bodman on 26 November 2010
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