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British Sugar is effectively the sole buyer of all of the sugar beet grown in Britain. This output comes from around 2,300 beet growers throughout Britain. [12] There is however a proposal to start growing sugar beet in Eastern Scotland again to produce bioethanol. [13] [14] British Sugar is a supplier of cannabis to GW Pharmaceuticals. [15]
Foley Park Halt opened in January 1905 and was originally situated to the south of the line. In 1925 the halt was relocated to the north side of the line to accommodate sidings for the British Sugar factory at Foley Park. [1] The halt closed in 1970 when public services between Bewdley and Kidderminster ended.
Passenger services on the Kidderminster, Bewdley and Hartlebury section clung on until 1970. The halt of traffic to Stourport power station in 1979, and Kidderminster - Foley Park British Sugar Corporation traffic in 1982 saw the end of regular British Rail services off the main line.
Tate & Lyle PLC is a British-headquartered, global supplier of food and beverage products to food and industrial markets. It was originally a sugar refining business, but from the 1970s, it began to diversify, eventually divesting its sugar business in 2010.
Following the end of freight traffic from the British Sugar factory at Foley Park in 1982, the SVR purchased the final section of the line to Kidderminster at a cost of £75,000 (£334,000 in 2023). [13] The SVR also rented the former Comberton Hill goods yard at Kidderminster from BR, on which a new station would be built.
Defunct companies of British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies (3 C) Defunct companies of England (18 C, 83 P) Defunct companies of Northern Ireland (3 C, 6 P)
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Landmarks visible from the hills include Dudley Castle, the large Droitwich AM transmitters near Bromsgrove, the large silos (now demolished for housing) on the Ex British Sugar Corporation land in Kidderminster, Ironbridge Power Station (now decommissioned and demolished), near Telford and the nearby Wychbury Obelisk.