Station Name: STRETTON-ON-FOSSE[Source: Darren Kitson]
 The crossing keeper's cottage and remains of the level crossing on what is known locally as Old Gated Road, "Old" referring to the road once being gated which has long since ceased to be the case. The date is the 22nd of September 1974. The location is about a three-quarter mile north-west of the site of Stretton-on-Fosse station on a minor road linking Fosse Way with Campden Road and just south of the one-time Campden Road Tunnel and the later Tunnel Bridge, which the latter no longer exists. The Shipston-on-Stour branch had something of a penchant for skewed level crossings and as can be seen, Old Gated Road was one of them. All crossing keeper's cottages along the branch survive and many of them have been extended, this one being no exception. These cottages all followed a general basic design but with variations such as left or right handed and variations to roofs, some having clipped gables. The style seen here had trefoil shapes cut into the gable apexes and such can be seen today at Old Gated Lane. One may therefore query the 'now you see it, now you don't' situation and the answer probably lies with the trefoils being plated over at various times and probably to prevent birds nesting, rainwater ingress or both.Photo by Bryan Hicks copyright Anthony Hicks 
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