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The Ro-Railer

In the heyday of the railways innovation was the key to overcoming the competition and luxury travel was to be aimed for. If you were to be accommodated in Stratford’s Welcombe Hotel how inconvenient it is to have to get out of the train with your luggage and get onto a bus. So come to the rescue the Ro-railer that could take you from any station to any hotel of the company’s choice on rail and road.

What I haven’t yet worked out is the Ro-Railer is clearly a LMS machine but photographs clearly show that it came off and on the tracks at the GWR station !

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About to drop of passengers at the Shakespeare Theatre

Returning to running on rails

The comfortable interior

Quick, easy and very convenient

Railmotor Terminus

Stratford GWR Station 1939

Full Steam Ahead

In 1859 Brunel’s Great Western Railway got agreement with the County Council and the Oxford, Worcester & Wolverhampton Railway to link up and rather than their planned temporary shed terminus it was time to think big. Over the decades the station was extended many times and that seen in 1952 is quite familiar to us today.

Stratford GWR Station. Notice that the name have been changed to include “-upon-”     1952

The GWR engine sheds were far simpler than those of LMS.   Notice the gasometer that lasted years.

GWR Express Railcar

In 1934 the RoRailer finally became out-dated. Theirs carried 69 people at 63mph using a new 8.8L diesel engine & fluid coupling -making it a true innovation of it’s time.

A gleaming Express Railcar comes to Stratford

The familiar station entrance     1951

And again      2014

Only recently changed      2023

An unremarkable view looking West from Alcester Road bridge.

- except there are no houses either side !

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