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==The station==
Bridgnorth is the current Northern terminus of the SVR. It has two platforms connected by a [[Bridgnorth Station Footbridge|footbridge]], a yard, and a [[Bridgnorth signal box|signal box]]. The original Severn Valley Railway continued northwards towards Ironbridge through [[Bridgnorth Tunnel|a 550 yard long tunnel ]] underneath Bridgnorth High Town. From time to time the possibility of re-opening the section of the line north of Bridgnorth is raised on discussion forums and elsewhere. The official stance of the SVR has over time varied between ''"maintaining a watching brief"'' and ''"the railway land north of Bridgnorth has been long since sold, and there is now no possibility of Severn Valley trains reaching Ironbridge and Shrewsbury ever again"''. An application by [[The Ironbridge Railway Trust]] in 2021 to the 'Restoring Your Railway Ideas Fund' was unsuccessful.
The main station building is listed Grade II by Historic England for its special architectural or historic interest. <ref>[https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1053173 Bridgnorth Station on the Historic England list]</ref>
File: Railwaymans_Arms_20150816.jpg | The pub sign looking south
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===Hanbury Cottage===
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===Lighting===
Current lighting installed on the site is 21st century, using period new GWR no 2 lampposts with associated luminaires and half-harps, plus corner brackets to match the original gas fittings. This was undertaken by suitably qualified volunteers with £60,000 raised by Bridgnorth Station Fund, and was mainly complete by 2021.<ref>[https://www.svrlive.com/blmar21 Branch Lines March 2021]</ref>.
It replaced reinforced concrete lighting, manufactured in Taunton by BR in the 1950s, evident in the image 1) from the Sellick collection in the below gallery. That lighting had begun to disintegrate and had become unsafe.
=== Pan Pudding Hill ===
Pan Pudding Hill, or sometimes Panpudding Hill or Pampudding Hill<ref>[https://www.bridgnorthtowncouncil.gov.uk/venues-bookings/castle-grounds-and-other-open-spaces/ Pampudding Hill on www.bridgnorthtowncouncil.gov.uk]</ref>, is a scheduled ancient monument which overlooks Bridgnorth station.<ref>[https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1013493 Pan Pudding Hill on the Historic England Scheduled Monument list]</ref> The man-made hill was built in 1102, on the orders of King Henry I, as a siege earthwork to attack and capture Bridgnorth Castle. The distance from the hill to the castle, nearly 300 yards, is a testament to the power of mediaeval medieval siege catapults.
Pan Pudding Hill was used to attack Bridgnorth Castle on other occasions, and finally in 1646 by Cromwell’s Parliamentarians during the English Civil War. After the last attack Bridgnorth Castle was blown up, leaving only the remains of the keep which can be seen in the castle grounds in High Town.<ref>[http://www.shropshirehistory.org.uk/html/search/verb/GetRecord/theme:20061123173140 shropshirehistory.org.uk] Retrieved 26 May 2015</ref>
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| William Doughty || 15 February 1817 Broseley, Shropshire || data-sort-value="1/8/1863" | August 1863 || data-sort-value="1/9/1866" | September 1866 || |-| Isaac Norris Hunt || 18 April 1828 Clifton, Gloucestershire || data-sort-value="1/9/1866" | September 1866 || data-sort-value="1/1/1869" | January 1869 || Previously station master at [[Stourport]] |-| Samuel Martin || 13 April 1834 Weymouth, Dorset || data-sort-value="1/1/1869" | January 1869 || data-sort-value="1/4/1872" | April 1872 || |-| James Alexander Masters || 3 July 1840 Witney, Oxfordshire || data-sort-value="1/4/1872" | April 1872 || data-sort-value="6/7/1873" | 6 July 1873 || Deceased|-| William Edward Bradshaw || 29 May 1845 Sulgrave, Northamptonshire || data-sort-value="1/9/1873" | September 1873 || data-sort-value="1/7/1875" | Around July 1875 || |-| Frederick Conran Barratt || 14 September 1833 Crewkerne, Somerset || data-sort-value="1/7/1875" | July 1875 || data-sort-value="1/9/1877" | Around September 1877 || Died November 1877.|-| William Gannimon Bowerman || 10 March 1836 Witney, Oxfordshire || data-sort-value="1/9/1877" | September 1877 || data-sort-value="10/11/1896" | 10 November 1896 || Retired|-|John Samuel <nowiki>Collett</nowiki>|| 3 June 1858 Chadlington, Oxfordshire || data-sort-value="1/12/1896" |December 1896| About 1872|data-sort-value="1/5/1905" | 31 August May 1905|| Died 30 August 1905. Served 33 years and left widow and three young children<ref>GWR magazine, October 1905</ref>
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|W.T. William James Cowan || 27 July 1857 Stonehouse, Devon|| data-sort-value="1/10/1905" |October 1905|| data-sort-value="1/1/1914" | 1914|| Retired in 1921 as Station Master at Newquay (Cornwall). He started in 1874 on the Devon and Cornwall Railway. He spent 9 years as Station Master at Bridgnorth from 1905<ref>GWR magazine, November 1921</ref>
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|George Smith || 14 January 1867 Shipton under Wychwood, Oxon || data-sort-value="1/1/1917" |By 1917 || data-sort-value="1/1/1929" | 1929|| George Smith, recently retired Station Master at Bridgnorth, received a presentation on 26 April 1929. His replacement, Mr Tubey presided.<ref name=GWR29>GWR magazine, June 1929</ref>
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|Mr Tubey || || data-sort-value="1/1/1929" | 1929 || || <ref name=GWR29/>
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|D.B. Davis || || data-sort-value="1/1/1931 " |1931 || data-sort-value="1/1/1941" | 1941 || Retirement after 45 years service. Been at Bridgnorth for 10 years following Withington and Chipping Norton<ref>GWR magazine, January 1941</ref>
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