Disused Stations: Shipston on Stour Station

Shipston-on-Stour Station: Gallery 6
September 1974 - 2023

Shipston-on-Stour goods shed in September 1974. This time facing south-east and showing the north end of the shed and the road vehicle bay. The awning which is supported by ornate cast iron spandrels has been damaged. The road bay of this typical GWR structure has been closed off with sheets of corrugated iron. When the shed was in use for its intended purpose, road vehicles would reverse up to the bay behind which was the internal platform. The narrow bay was of course designed for horse-drawn road vehicles and would have been somewhat unsuited to the larger motor vehicles in use by the time of closure.
Photo by Bryan Hicks copyright Anthony Hicks

The rail and office side of the goods shed on the 22nd of September 1974. Apparently on the occasion of a family outing. The camera is facing north-west. As the sign implies, the shed was in commercial use although apart from the office it looks for all the world to be derelict.
Photo by Bryan Hicks copyright Anthony Hicks

Shipston-on-Stour engine shed seen in September 1974. This is facing north and therefore shows the south end of the shed. As with the goods shed, the engine shed was or had been in commercial use. The name has been rather squeezed onto the arch and there should be a space between ‘Argon’ and ‘Welding’. This company was dissolved in June 2002. Apart from the weigh office which survives to this day on what is now private property, the engine shed was the final former railway building to survive at Shipston-on-Stour, being demolished shortly before or during 2001.

Photo by Bryan Hicks copyright Anthony Hicks

With the camera facing north-east this was Shipston-on-Stour engine shed during the 1990s, having at some point been re-roofed. It had ceased to exist in or by 2001 when the site was finally cleared ready for new building work to commence.
Photo by Paul Stratford

What remained of Shipston-on-Stour goods shed during the 1990s as new buildings hemmed it in. This view faces north-west. It appears that part of the side wall had been deliberately removed, perhaps to allow road vehicles to reverse up to the internal platform, part of which is just about visible. This shed had also ceased to exist in or by 2001.
Photo by Paul Stratford

Shipston-on-Stour station site in May 2001 with the surviving weigh office visible on the right. The passenger station including its building had disappeared during the 1970s.
Photo by Graham Ross, reproduced from Geograph under creative commons licence

The former weigh office seen here on the 31st of May 2001 is now, in 2024, the only surviving former railway building at Shipston-on-Stour. The extension to the rear is post railway closure and the building (weigh office) is now in a rear garden of a house on Station Road, but is visible from the road. In early 2024 a look at the building showed that the homemade sign, with dubious dating, had disappeared. The weighbridge had been to the right, in front of the lower window, and Shipston gasworks had stood to the immediate left.
Photo by Graham Ross, reproduced fom Geograph under creative commons licence

The site of Shipston on Stour station looking north in August 2016. Station Crescent occupies the station site. The houses on the left are on the site of the goods yard and goods shed.

Photo by Nick Catford

The site of Shipston on Stour station looking south in August 2016.
Photo by Nick Catford

The site of Shipton on Stour station looking north from Station Road in 2020. Station Road turns left at this junction and Station Crescent runs straight ahead through the station site. The surviving weigh office is seen in a residential property beside the telegraph pole on the left.

The cottages on Station Road, Shipston-on-Stour, which survive to this day among a sea of modern buildings. These were not railway cottages in the sense that the railway owned them but provided lodgings for railway staff. The situation as it was in the 1930s is described with a contemporary photograph. The railway station (this view faces due east) was dead ahead and just beyond the point where the road curves to the left.
Photo by Diane Miller

The site of Darlingscote Road level crossing in 2023. The cottage has been extended over the trackbed and another part of the trackbed has been made into a driveway. Window shutters have been fitted and some of these crossing cottages had shutters either as built or added at the request of the railway employee tenants subsequently. Since the 1953 view, the road has been widened and in doing so the bend has been eased slightly. The road level has also been raised.
Photo by Diane Miller

[Source: Darren Kitson]

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