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===The Severn Valley Railway Company===

In 1849 plans again emerged for a line following this route, linking the still incomplete [[Oxford Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway]] (‘OW&W’) at a point south of Hartlebury to the Shrewsbury & Birmingham Railway’s projected branch at Madeley in Shropshire. The proposed Severn Valley Railway would provide a more direct route between the railway junction towns of Shrewsbury and Worcester than the alternative route via Hartlebury, Kidderminster, Stourbridge, Wolverhampton and Wellington, and would also provide railway access to the coalfields of Highley and Alveley.