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Part of the trackbed of the dismantled Stratford-upon-Avon and Midland Junction Railway (SMJR) [10] runs east to west between Showsley and north of Hulcote towards the site of Towcester Station, now the site of a Tesco supermarket.
Former Secretary of State for War John Profumo was the MP for Stratford-upon-Avon 1950–1963; W. W. Quatremain (1857–1930), local landscape painter; Gordon Ramsay, noted celebrity chef, and star of several cooking related shows, moved to Stratford-Upon-Avon with his family in 1976 when he was nine years old
Tesco store in Tiverton in November 2005. Tesco Superstores are standard large supermarkets, stocking groceries and a much smaller range of non-food goods than Extra hypermarkets. The shops have always been branded as 'Tesco', but a new shop in Liverpool was the first to use the format brand 'Tesco Superstore' above the door. [61]
Old Wolverton railway works with Stephenson bridge, adjoins and crosses the Grand Union Canal. The 1833 Act of Parliament approving the London and Birmingham Railway included a clause that specified that a railway works be built around the mid-point, as it was considered scientifically unsafe at the time for railway locomotives to move more than 50 miles (80 km) without further inspection.
Towcester was a railway station on the Stratford-upon-Avon and Midland Junction Railway which served the town of Towcester in Northamptonshire, England between 1866 and 1964. It once served as an interchange for services to Stratford, Banbury and Olney. It also saw substantial traffic on racedays at Towcester Racecourse. Its closure came as the ...
The Leamington–Stratford line branches off the Chiltern Main Line at Hatton (a few miles west of Leamington Spa) and runs to Stratford-upon-Avon. The branch line is also operated by regular West Midlands Trains services. As of May 2023, a simplified description of the routes served off-peak Monday to Friday are as follows: [38] [41]
A development by the Tesco supermarket chain turned the cutting on the London side of the station into a tunnel by the use of large concrete ring segments to form the tunnel profile. The space on top of these segments was filled in to form a ground surface on which the new supermarket was built.
The ex GCR hydraulic power house in Leicester is now a Tesco store in December 2011. The Main Line Preservation Group was established in 1968, to preserve part of the remaining section of the Great Central main line. The group was reformed, in 1971, as Main Line Steam Trust Limited and the group's original ambitions were trimmed to exclude the ...