The lines from Worcester Shrub Hill and Worcester Foregate Shrub stations meet at Tunnel Junction. Almost immediately after passing through the tunnel at Rainbow Hill the line passes over Brickfields Road, opposite to Astwood Cemetery. At this point, the Great Western Railway built a small wooden halt in 1936 to be served by a new 'railcar' service. The halt was officially closed when this service was discontinued in 1940 but workers' trains to R.O.F.Blackpole continued to call here. It was demolished after the war.
This nice set of signals for Tunnel Hill Junction is at the eastern end of Rainbow Hill as viewed from a public right of way across the railway.
As viewed from the park near Tunnel Junction but looking in the opposite direction, the railway curves away to the left past the site of Astwood Halt which is on the embankment above the on-track plant machine on the far side of the road bridge.
The are few surviving photographs of the Halt when it was in use and the only one ever seen by the MIAC is of LMSR 4-6-0 No.5272 heading a northbound passenger train on 30th June 1938 that appears in the the historical picture book 'Unseen Worcester'.
This is a Hydrex/Rexquote Megarailer 988 No.4203 parked alongside the railway at Astwood.
Thwaites/Hydrex road/rail dumper truck reg.no.V71 KCV parked at the same site.
Photographs were taken by Andrew Smith on 20th October 2007.