METAL BOX COMPANY LIMITED, SIDINGS,

PERRY WOOD, WORCESTER

Metal Box opened their factory at Perry Wood in May 1931. The factory was alongside the Worcester to Oxford line about half a mile from Shrub Hill station. The factory was served by sidings on the east side of the line.

Metal Box Advert

This advert for the Metal Box Company Limited appeared in a Worcester City Football Club programme in August 1971.

Class 08 at Metal Box

Class 08 at Metal Box

Richard Atkinson photographed this unidentified, possibly Cardiff based, class 08 diesel locomotive shunting the sidings at the Metal Box factory in Worcester in 1985.

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