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Kidderminster station opened with the extension of the Oxford, Worcester & Wolverhampton Railway from Worcester to Stourbridge on 1 May 1852. It became an important intermediate station on the line which became part of the West Midland Railway in 1860, which in turn amalgamated with the Great Western Railway and the South Wales Railway on 1 August 1863.
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After Kidderminster goods yard became disused in 1982, the SVR purchased the line to the east of Foley Park. Sharing the British Rail station of Kidderminster was impractical, so SVR claimed a site to the west of the BR station. Initially, the site was leased from BR until privatisation when BR looked to sell off the site, leading to the 1994 ...
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Race Course Junction; divergence of 1960 line to East and West Junction line; Stratford Racecourse; opened 6 May 1933; closed by 1968; special traffic only; East and West Junction; convergence of line from East and West Junction line; Stratford [OW&WR station]; opened 11 July 1859; closed 1 January 1863 when new station opened. [18] [17] [19]
Kidderminster's position at the junction of several main roads made it a place of strategic importance during the English Civil War, with several skirmishes taking place in and around the town. [ 3 ] In 1670–1 Kidderminster's cloth industry obtained a guild by act of parliament and by 1677, the town had as many as 459 weavers and perhaps ...
The South Staffordshire Junction Railway was proposed to connect the two towns, with junction connections to the Grand Junction Railway, now to be part of the LNWR. The SSJR got its authorising act of Parliament, the South Staffordshire Junction Railway Act 1846 (9 & 10 Vict. c. ccc) on 3 August 1846, with permitted share capital of £525,000.
The southern section of the branch, known as the Kingswinford branch, began as a goods-only single track line serving local collieries and brickworks.The first 1 1 ⁄ 2 miles from Kingswinford Junction to Bromley Basin opened in November 1858 at which time it was still part of the Oxford Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway.