Wootton Wawen is a stop on the "Shakespeare Line" (also known as the North Warwickshire Line) in Warwickshire between Henley-in-Arden and Wilmcote.
West Midlands Railway 172 334 departs for Stratford
Information
Type:
National Rail (Shakespeare Line)
Station code:
WWW
Opened:
1908
Platforms:
2
The station was opened in 1908 as Wootton Wawen Platform (which meant it had basic staffing and a parcels facility) by the Great Western Railway. It was renamed in 1974 [1]. The station was threatened with closure in the 1980s but managed to survive.
The station has two through roads on an embankment, platform access is via two ramps down to road level. It is served by the hourly service on the line, for a long time the station was a request stop, meaning that trains may not stop at the station unless a passenger on the train requested it to the guard (or held out their arm to an approaching train). However, recently West Midlands Railway have changed their timetable to always stop at the station.
The station is unstaffed and has basic facilities. Each platform has a single concrete shelter and there is a single information display per platform plus help points. The station is managed by West Midlands Railway.
View down the line
Station view from the road bridge (see in the background of the first photograph)
Station entrance
Ramp down to street level
Platform shelter
[1] Vic Mitchell and Keith Smith, Stratford-upon-Avon to Birmingham (Moor Street) (Middleton Press, 2006) p.41
Danzey is a stop on the North Warwickshire Line (which is these days branded as the Shakespeare Line) in Warwickshire between Henley-in-Arden and Wood End.
In LM days 172 331 arrives with a Birmingham bound service
Information
Type:
National Rail (Shakespeare Line)
Station code:
DZY
Opened:
1908
Platforms:
2
Danzey was opened by the Great Western Railway in 1908 when the North Warwickshire Line was opened. Danzey itself only serves a few houses and farms in Danzey Green with the closest settlement of any size Tanworth-in-Arden over a kilometer away. Danzey was originally known as Danzey for Tanworth [1].
Despite the rural nature of the station it had a goods yard and as many as six men worked at the station during the Interwar Period. The station had a signalbox which closed in 1970. The goods yard closed in 1964.
The station is unmanned now, it has no ticket purchasing facilities though is equipped with public information screens and a help/information phone. The footbridge and platform shelters date from 1993. The station is a request stop with an hourly service in both directions most days though does not have a Sunday service. The station is managed by West Midlands Railway.
View from the footbridge
GWR style name board
Newer WMR signs
View of the shelter and the footbridge
A LM train has just arrived
[1] Vic Mitchell & Keith Smith, Stratford-upon-Avon to Birmingham Moor Street (Middleton Press, 2006) p. 55
The Lakes was opened by the GWR in 1935 on the North Warwickshire Line (nowadays branded the Shakespeare Line) as The Lakes Halt to serve the nearby Earlswood Lakes, the summit and feeder for the Southern section of the Stratford Canal [1] and also a popular destination for day trips.
Information
Type:
National Rail
(Shakespeare Line)
Station code:
TLK
Opened:
1935
Platforms:
2
The station did have a manned ticket office once at peak times but nowadays is a quiet unmanned station with just a couple of bus shelters [2].
The platforms are very short (about 40m long) and passengers who want to alight at this station, which is a request stop, must be in the front coach of the DMUs that serve the Shakespeare Line.
London Midland 172 332 departs heading for Stratford-upon-Avon
The road bridge is the means of getting between platforms
Next train indicator
Pretty much the entire platform can be seen in this view!
[1] Vic Mitchell & Keith Smith, Stratford Upon Avon to Birmingham (Middleton Press, 2006) fig. 62 [2] Colin G Maggs, The Branch Lines of Warwickshire (Amberley, 2011) p. 139
