About Sidetracked
We have Motorway Mayhem. We have A-Road Anarchy (cos there
aren’t many Motorways in Wales!). But what about public transport
users? SideTracked Caches are intended to provide quick
Cache-and-dashes at Train Stations.
About Wilmcote Station
Wilmcote railway station serves the village of Wilmcote, about 4
miles north-north-west of Stratford-upon-Avon in Warwickshire,
England.
The present two-platform station was opened in 1908, at the same
time as the inauguration of the North Warwickshire Line, the Great
Western Railway's new mainline route from Birmingham to Cheltenham
Spa. This replaced an earlier station which had been in existence
since 1860, on the Stratford-upon-Avon Railway Company's branch
line from Hatton on the GWR Oxford to Birmingham route.
Today, the station, which is managed by London Midland, is served
by hourly local trains between Stratford and Birmingham, operated
by London Midland, and Chiltern Railways services (up to 10 a day
each way) between Stratford and Leamington Spa, most of which are
through services to and from London Marylebone.
The cache is a 35mm film canister, containing a logbook but no
pen/pencil
The Shakespeare Express at
Wilmcote station