Crossing Cottage
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Crossing Cottage by Michael Dibb as part of the Geograph project.
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Crossing Cottage
Image: © Michael Dibb Taken: 22 Jun 2010
The cottage was built to accommodate the level crossing keeper for the railway branch line from Moreton-in-Marsh to Shipston-on-Stour, the trains would have passed where the wooden fence now is. Unlike most of the other crossing cottages on the branch, this one is unaltered. Built as a horse-drawn tramway between Moreton-in-Marsh and Stratford-upon-Avon with a branch to Shipston-on-Stour, the part between Moreton and Shipston was converted into a standard railway in 1889. Passenger services ceased in 1929, goods traffic ceased in 1960. See http://www.warwickshirerailways.com/gwr/mortonshipston.htm for more details and original photographs.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.072599
Longitude
-1.64732