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Station truck serving the Tenbury branch
The station truck label from February 1935, as depicted in the article, shows that the departure from Hartlebury was at 9.30am. The [[Timetable: Severn Valley Line 1948 | BR(W) 1948 working timetable]] still included a 9.30am freight departure from Hartlebury. This was certainly a slow goods, as it did not reach [[Coton Hill Yard | Shrewsbury Coton Hill yard]] until 6.58pm. The stop at Cressage has a note in the timetable ‘To deal with Cattle traffic and perform S.T. work only’, the S.T. referring to 'Station Truck'.
Another station truck, No 752, served the [[Tenbury Branch]]. Under the system in use in 1914, this was taken from Stourbridge Goods Depot down to Amblecote Goods yard at 6.45am, returning at 8.15am to be attached to the 9.10 Class F Goods departure from Stourbridge Junction to Hereford via Kidderminster, Bewdley and Tenbury Wells.<ref>[[Bibliography#Other References|Butcher (2004)]] p. 97.</ref>
Although Station Trucks provided a useful service, the weight they carried formed only a fraction of total freight, less than 0.5% in this summary of the total loading of wagons from the Birmingham district for the 4 weeks ended 14 April 1929: <ref name = “Atkins” />
