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Thorpe Arch Ordnance Factory. 1946.

            Fully operational by October 1942, arrangements had to be made for the expected total of 18,000 workers who would be arriving by train every day, they needed to be transported to various locations across the 642 acre site, and collected again at the end of their shifts. The LNER's solution was to build a railway around the perimeter of the factory, with four stations around the circuit. The single line of this Circular Railway was equipped with automatic signalling, so that several trains could be dealt with in quick succesion. Carriage sidings were provided so that trains could be stabled until the off-going shift was ready for collection. Two of the four stations were brought into use from November 1941, the full circular railway coming into use on the 19th April 1942.
Thorpe Arch served the MOD thoughout the later years of WW2, through the Korean war and the Suez conflict, mainly as a component and filling factory ( cartridge cases, explosive compounds, and the assembly of these into completed munitions, a process known as "filling".) the factory ceased production in April 1958.
   

Taken on: January 1, 1946

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