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The siding could hold up to 12 wagons, and was facing to trains from the direction of Bewdley. Traffic from the siding was worked by the Kidderminster shunting engine, which would draw wagons out onto the main line and then propel them back towards Kidderminster Junction. Such propelling movements could only be carried out in clear weather and at reduced speed, with a guard in the leading brake van providing hand signals to the driver where necessary.
The OS Map of 1938 shows the area between [[Hoo Road Bridge]] (right) and [[Worcester Road Bridge]] (left). [[Kidderminster Shed]] is located south of the loop line with the sand siding and the sand pit that it served to the north of the line. The pit produced foundry sand which was used in the GWR’s three main works at Swindon, Wolverhampton and Caerphilly<ref>Vic Mitchell & Keith Smith (2007), Worcester to Birmingham, fig IX, ISBN 978 1 904474 97 5</ref><ref>[[Bibliography#Books|Marshall (1989)]] p. 137.</ref>.
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