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Unsuccessful proposals for railways in the Severn Valley

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After 1862, the following railways were proposed to form a junction with the SVR
*{| class="wikitable"!Railway!! First proposed !! Proposed route !! Other information|-| Stourbridge Railway, Valley of the Stour Extension||1866||An extension from the Stourbridge Town branch via Kinver and Wolverley, passing 2 miles north of Kidderminster and joining the SVR north of Bewdley via a north-facing junction || Rejected by Parliament in 1866.<ref>[[Bibliography#Books|Marshall (1989)]] p. 61.</ref>|-*| West Staffordshire Railway||1874 || From the LNWR line south of Wolverhampton via Kingswinford, west of Stourbridge, Wolverley, west of Kidderminster to connect to the Tenbury and Bewdley Railway with a short branch to Bewdley.||Backed by the LNWR as an alternative to the [[Kidderminster Loop Line]]. Rejected by Parliament in 1875.<ref>[[Bibliography#Books|Marshall (1989)]] p. 81.</ref>|-|[[Cleobury Mortimer and Ditton Priors Light Railway]]||1912||An extension from Ditton Priors to Bridgnorth||One of 3 possible extensions, none of which were taken up after the First World War.<ref>[[Bibliography#Other References|Price (1995)]] pp.39-40.</ref>|}
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