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Unsuccessful proposals for railways in the Severn Valley

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Proposals after the opening of the SVR in 1862: additional history
==Proposals after the opening of the SVR in 1862==
After 1862, the following railways were proposed to form a junction with the SVR(incomplete list) {| class*'''Central Wales and Staffordshire Junction Railway''': Proposed in 1864, the route would have run from the S&HR at Craven Arms via Corvedale, Bridgnorth and thence via Trysull to Dudley and Wolverhampton.<ref name="wikitable"Trysull>[https://wikivisually.com/wiki/Trysull Trysull on Wikivisially]</ref>!*'''Bridgnorth, Wolverhampton and Staffordshire Railway!! First proposed !! ''': Proposed in 1865, the route !! Other informationwould also have connected main line Shropshire to the Black Country networks via the Smestow Valley at Trysull.<ref name=Trysull/>|-| *'''Stourbridge Railway, Valley of the Stour Extension||''': Proposed in 1866||An , the route would form 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 . The proposal was rejected by Parliament in 1866.<ref>[[Bibliography#Books|Marshall (1989)]] p. 61.</ref>|-| *'''West Staffordshire Railway||''': Proposed in 1874 || From , the route would run 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 The scheme, which was backed by the LNWR as an alternative to the [[Kidderminster Loop Line]]. Rejected , was rejected by Parliament in 1875.<ref>[[Bibliography#Books|Marshall (1989)]] p. 81.</ref>|-|*'''[[Cleobury Mortimer and Ditton Priors Light Railway]]''' (extensions): Some time after opening in 1908, the CM&DPLR considered an extension to Billingsley, whose [[Collieries served by the Severn Valley Railway|colliery]] was instead served by a [[Kinlet and Billingsley Sidings signal box|branch from the SVR]] authorised in 1911 and opened in 1913. In 1912||An extension the railway considered three other possible extensions from the terminus at Ditton Priors to , one of which would have joined the SVR near Bridgnorth||One . None of 3 possible the 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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