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[[File: OS_Stourport_1951.jpg|thumb|300px|right| 1951 OS Map showing Stourport Station (bottom right) to Burlish Halt (top left).]]
[[File:BritainFromAbove StourportWide 1948.jpg|thumb|300px|right|1948 aerial photograph of Stourport. The station is at top centre, the SVR passing from left (Bewdley) to right (Hartlebury).
Image from [http://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/image/eaw013578 Britain from Above].]]
A siding was provided in 1941 at [[Stourport]] to serve the World War 2 emergency silo and food store. The National Cold Stores facility was situated a short distance west of station to the north of the line.<ref>[[Bibliography#Books|Mitchell and Smith (2007)]] fig. 7.</ref>
<ref>[[Bibliography#Books | Maggs ((2009)]] p.119.</ref>
The location of the Store can be seen on the 1951 OS map, although the siding itself is not shown. The Store is visible as the large white building west of the station in the 1948 areial view of Stourport.
Access to the siding was controlled by two(?) levers and an intermediate token machine, released by token<ref name="StourportDiagram">SRS diagram for Stourport-on-Severn SB</ref>.
==See also==
*[[Private sidings connected to the Severn Valley Railway]]
*[[Maps#Schematic maps of the pre-closure SVR | Pre-1963 map]]
*[[List of signal boxes#List of historical Signal Boxes and Ground Frames | List of historical Signal Boxes and Ground Frames]]
==References==
<references />
[[File:BritainFromAbove StourportWide 1948.jpg|thumb|300px|right|1948 aerial photograph of Stourport. The station is at top centre, the SVR passing from left (Bewdley) to right (Hartlebury).
Image from [http://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/image/eaw013578 Britain from Above].]]
A siding was provided in 1941 at [[Stourport]] to serve the World War 2 emergency silo and food store. The National Cold Stores facility was situated a short distance west of station to the north of the line.<ref>[[Bibliography#Books|Mitchell and Smith (2007)]] fig. 7.</ref>
<ref>[[Bibliography#Books | Maggs ((2009)]] p.119.</ref>
The location of the Store can be seen on the 1951 OS map, although the siding itself is not shown. The Store is visible as the large white building west of the station in the 1948 areial view of Stourport.
Access to the siding was controlled by two(?) levers and an intermediate token machine, released by token<ref name="StourportDiagram">SRS diagram for Stourport-on-Severn SB</ref>.
==See also==
*[[Private sidings connected to the Severn Valley Railway]]
*[[Maps#Schematic maps of the pre-closure SVR | Pre-1963 map]]
*[[List of signal boxes#List of historical Signal Boxes and Ground Frames | List of historical Signal Boxes and Ground Frames]]
==References==
<references />
