This took me back a bit! I travelled daily to and from secondary school at Stratford from Wilmcote station. I parked my bike in the bike shed highlighted in your video too. This was from early the early 1970's to 1981. DMUs were the order of the day and train doors that you closed with a solid clunk. I recall Mr Booker was the station master back in the day and he maintained the hanging baskets and won awards for the best kept station. Happy days. Thanks for highlighting such a lovely place.
As one of the Station Volunteers at Wilmcote. I should like to thank you, on behalf of our volunteer group, for your great video of our station. We are working to replace the modern seating with period specific benches that are more appropriate to the character of the place. We also have the benefit of periodic steam trains (out of Tysley) running between Stratford and Snowhill as the Shakespeare line.
You are most welcome, the station looks amazing and is a credit to your volunteer group. Will be nice to see the traditional seating return, and I imagine the steam engines look fantastic going through.
Thanks for a nice video. All the stations between Birmigham and Stratford have been adopted by their local communities under Friends of The Shakespeare Line. Volunteers are always required!
Such a nice station and well filmed as always. It sure does look like a heritage railway station rather than a main line station. You really captured the feel of the station well. The footbridge looks really nice considering its over 130 years old. Having the canal nearby is nice too for a walk along it. Im guessing at some point in the past they would transfer goods from the canal to the trains and vice-versa. Thank you for sharing this lovely station.
Great detailed video. We used to take the train from there to Stratford every day! There was still a helpful station master then and the buildings were still open. It was a bit less pretty then though!
What a great station!! One wonders what would have happened if the Midland Region hadn't butchered the GWR network around Birmingham? I still don't understand why the Honeybourne to Stratford line isn't reopened and Snow Hill vastly upgraded?
This took me back a bit! I travelled daily to and from secondary school at Stratford from Wilmcote station. I parked my bike in the bike shed highlighted in your video too. This was from early the early 1970's to 1981. DMUs were the order of the day and train doors that you closed with a solid clunk. I recall Mr Booker was the station master back in the day and he maintained the hanging baskets and won awards for the best kept station. Happy days. Thanks for highlighting such a lovely place.
@@robertshaw4413 Thankyou for this great insight into the station in the 1970's. It's not surprising that it won best kept station.
Great video
@@davidmatthews7876 Thank you very much, thank you for watching
As one of the Station Volunteers at Wilmcote. I should like to thank you, on behalf of our volunteer group, for your great video of our station. We are working to replace the modern seating with period specific benches that are more appropriate to the character of the place. We also have the benefit of periodic steam trains (out of Tysley) running between Stratford and Snowhill as the Shakespeare line.
You are most welcome, the station looks amazing and is a credit to your volunteer group. Will be nice to see the traditional seating return, and I imagine the steam engines look fantastic going through.
Thanks for a nice video. All the stations between Birmigham and Stratford have been adopted by their local communities under Friends of The Shakespeare Line. Volunteers are always required!
No worries, they are all fantastic stations, thanks for watching!
Such a nice station and well filmed as always. It sure does look like a heritage railway station rather than a main line station. You really captured the feel of the station well. The footbridge looks really nice considering its over 130 years old. Having the canal nearby is nice too for a walk along it. Im guessing at some point in the past they would transfer goods from the canal to the trains and vice-versa. Thank you for sharing this lovely station.
@@NiceCakeMix Thanks once again for watching, it was a nice station, and you may be right about the canal.
Great detailed video. We used to take the train from there to Stratford every day! There was still a helpful station master then and the buildings were still open. It was a bit less pretty then though!
Glad you enjoyed my video and thanks for you memories of it.
What a great station!! One wonders what would have happened if the Midland Region hadn't butchered the GWR network around Birmingham? I still don't understand why the Honeybourne to Stratford line isn't reopened and Snow Hill vastly upgraded?
From what I saw, Snow Hill could do with upgrading, especially as it gets a lot of traffic. Thanks for watching.
What were the overhead cables ?
@@davidmatthews7876 I can only assume overhead domestic cables to the station buildings, the line doesn't ever seem to have been electrified
Makes sense, thanks