Moreton-in-Marsh (MIM)

Moreton-in-Marsh is a stop on the Cotswold Line between Honeybourne and Kingham. The terminus of the Stratford & Moreton Tramway, which opened in the 1820s, was also once next to the station.

Information
Type:	National Rail (Cotswold Line)
Station code:	MIM
Opened:	1853
Platforms:	2

The Oxford, Worcester & Wolverhampton Railway reached Moreton-in-Marsh in 1853. The line later becoming part of the Great Western Railway. The Stratford & Moreton Tramway, a horse drawn tramway from Stratford-upon-Avon, commissioned a horse drawn connecting service which operated from 1853 [1]. This operated until the opening of the line from Honeybourne to Stratford in 1859.

Not long afterwards the GWR (as it then was) bought out and closed down much of the tramway and used it's Southern section as a conventional railway line to Shipton-on-Stour, services from Moreton station served by a bay platform [2], this branch opening in 1889 [3].

The original Moreton station was a rather cheaply made timber built one, the station was rebuilt in 1872-73 with some of the main station buildings still surviving in use [4].

The current Moreton-in-Marsh station is an interesting mixture of old and new. The main station building from the 1870s survives, along with it's GWR canopies but the footbridge is a recent replacement, the London Paddington platform has a modern waiting room. Due to the popularity of Moreton-in-Marsh with tourists some station signage is bilingual in English and Japanese.

A GWR Class 800 arrives at Moreton-in-Marsh

View under the canopy of the main station building

Signal box

Another 800 arrives

View down the platform

A new station building opposite the older one

[1] Charles Hadfield & John Norris, Waterways to Stratford (David & Charles, 1968) p. 144 
[2] Vic Mitchell & Keith Smith, Moreton-in-Marsh to Worcester (Middleton Press, 2004) Map. III
[3] Hadfield & Norris p. 153
[4] Mitchell & Smith Fig. 6