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Looking from the bridge under which the former railway line to Tewkesbury (and Malvern) went. The converted brick building in the centre, the Power Station, is now offices. Much of the wasteland in the foreground was previously railway lines.
©Jennifer Luther Thomas
Ashchurch Station, looking north from the road bridge on the A46. Built by the Birmingham and Gloucester Railway, it was formerly a junction with lines to Malvern on the left and Evesham on the right. A vestige of the latter line remains to serve the army depot.
©Dave Bushell
©Philip Halling
View SE, towards Ashchurch station; ex-Midland Ashchurch - Tewkesbury - Great Malvern line. This is the train depicted at Tewkesbury in [[[2224053]]], returning to Tewkesbury and Malvern on the same day. Hidden behind the engine is the loop line that connected the Tewkesbury branch with the line to Evesham across an unusual rail/rail level-crossing, as seen in other pictures of Ashchurch station.
©Ben Brooksbank
Dist:0.1km<br/>Industrial unit next to Northway Trading Estate, beyond which lies the re-opened Ashchurch (for Tewkesbury) railway station. Previously this was the site of a railway junction, with lines running straight ahead towards Evesham and curving to the right to join the Birmingham to Bristol main line.
©Jennifer Luther Thomas
Dist:0.1km<br/>A train - remarkably of THREE coaches, leaves Ashchurch for Tewkesbury and Malvern, hauled by an ancient ex-Midland Railway Class 1P 0-4-4 tank. The view is eastward, with Ashchurch station on the left and the loop line across to the Evesham line straight ahead on the left.
©Ben Brooksbank
Dist:0.1km<br/>Ex-Midland Johnson/Deeley 5'3" 3F 0-6-0 No. 3675 (withdrawn 12/59) draws a Class J freight out of the Down Loop and over the crossing of the Loop joining the Evesham with the Tewkesbury line at the north end of Ashchurch station: ex-Midland Birmingham - Bristol main line. [One of my early - pre-nationalisation - efforts]
©Ben Brooksbank
Dist:0.1km<br/>View northward, towards Worcester and Birmingham; ex-Midland Birmingham - Bristol main line. Back in 1946 when the rail level-crossing (cf. [[[2188833]]]) was still in use, Hughes/Fowler 5P4F 2-6-0 No. 2774 (built 1927 as 13074, withdrawn 11/63) pulls a Down Class H freight out of the Down loop into the station. [One of my early box-camera efforts].
©Ben Brooksbank
Dist:0.1km<br/>View northward, towards Birmingham etc.; ex-Midland Birmingham - Bristol main line. The train is thundering along the main line, with ex-Midland 4F 0-6-0 No. 43951; for once there's no train waiting in the Down loop on the right.
©Ben Brooksbank
Dist:0.1km<br/>The view northward from the A438 road-bridge up the main line from Birmingham, with a Down IC125 high-speed express rushing past the site of the old station. The former Evesham branch remains just in the form of the siding to the MoD Depot, but now doubled and cleared of weeds; else, only the old water-tank on the Up side and the fir tree and white cottages on the Down side remain.
©Ben Brooksbank
Dist:0.1km<br/>View northward from the end of the Up platform; ex-Midland Birmingham - Bristol main line. The single line crossing on the level connected the line from Evesham (to the right) with the line to Tewkesbury, being controlled by Ashchurch Level Crossing signalbox, which was just off frame on the right and sited off the end of the Down platform. This crossing was the scene of a bad collision in 1929; the loop was taken up a few years after this scene. Note the Midland signal on the left. The Down Class H freight is headed by LMS 4F 0-6-0 No. 44362.
©Ben Brooksbank
Dist:0.1km<br/>View northward, towards Birmingham etc.; ex-Midland Birmingham - Bristol main line. 'Modified Hall' 4-6-0 No. 7920 'Coney Hall' (built 9/50, withdrawn 6/65) in splendid condition is rushing through here at that time, because the Wolverhampton (Low Level) - Penzance 'Cornishman' was diverted via Honeybourne and Norton Junction (reverse) instead of its normal route via Broadway during major repairs on that line. In the foreground was the flat crossing of the former loop connecting the Evesham line (right) with the Tewkesbury line (left), recently taken up.
©Ben Brooksbank
Dist:0.2km<br/>A splendidly polished Jubilee class 4-6-0 rushes a Life Boys Special down from the Birmingham direction, over the point at the north end of the station where the former loop line crossing has very recently been removed.
©Ben Brooksbank
Dist:0.2km<br/>A piece of waste ground ready for more industrial units on the Ashchurch/Northway industrial area to the east of the M5 at Tewkesbury.
©Jonathan Billinger
Dist:0.2km<br/>Northward view from station footbridge along main line from Birmingham. Down train is passing Ashchurch Crossing Box, which controlled the rail level-crossing of the loop that connected the Evesham and Tewkesbury lines. (One of my earliest Railway photographs).
©Ben Brooksbank

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