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The Severn Valley Railway under GWR/BR ownership

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==Timetables and services==
===Passenger services===
:''Main article: [[Timetables in commercial service]]''
At opening on 1 February 1862 there were three trains per day between Shrewsbury and Worcester over the Severn Valley Line, with a fourth which ran from Bridgnorth to Shrewsbury and back. This quickly became four through trains per day, while a single train on Sundays was also added to the timetable running to Shrewsbury in the morning and returning in the late afternoon. This pattern continued largely unchanged throughout the rest of the century. Following the opening of the Kidderminster Loop in 1878, trains from the Tenbury Branch ran to Kidderminster but passengers from Shrewsbury to Kidderminster still had to change at Bewdley.
===Through passenger By the beginning of the 20th Century a fifth though service in each direction had started. In 1905 the GWR introduced local services===At opening in 1862at the south end of the line. These would operate throughout the day around the triangle formed by Kidderminster, four trains per day ran between Shrewsbury Bewdley and Worcester over the Severn Valley LineHartlebury, with just one train per day on Sundaysoccasionally going to Highley (providing a service for miners working there) and as far as Bridgnorth. Most stopped at all stations and none were particularly fast<ref name="Morriss35">Rail Centres: Shrewsbury, Richard K. Morriss (1986) p35</ref>. Sometimes nicknamed 'The Bewdley Banjo',<ref>[[Bibliography | Turley (2005), p35]]</ref> the service was mainly provided by steam railmotors until around 1918, by auto-coaches until the early 1940s, and thereafter by diesel railcars.
Following With the opening introduction of the Kidderminster Loop in 1878local service, some Shrewsbury departures would began to divert to Kidderminster instead of Worcester. Around the same time, other Shrewsbury departures began to terminate at Hartlebury or Bewdley, to connect to local services.<ref name="Morriss35" />.
By 1900 The Sunday service north of Bridgnorth had ended by 1910. The traffic statistics suggest passenger numbers at most stations peaked in the 1920s before starting to fall again. The GWR added a number of halts in the 1930s in an attempt to bring more local custom to the Branch, and there were there were still five departures on weekdays trains per day to and from Shrewsbury, two to Worcester, two to Hartlebury and one to Kidderminsterin 1938. There was also one service to Bridgnorth<ref name="Morriss47">Morriss, p47</ref>The first thirty years of the 20th Century could therefore perhaps be considered the heyday of the Branch.
In the early 1930s, the Sunday timetable included one Bridgnorth to Shrewsbury service and one service nicknamed the “Fisherman’s Special”. The latter left Birmingham Snow Hill at 7.22am, arriving at Shrewsbury via Kidderminster at 10.30am, with the return departing at 8.00pm, arriving at Snow Hill at 10.47pm<ref name="Morriss47" />. By 1938 there were still five trains per day to and from Shrewsbury. However shortly after World War 2 saw the service was reduced back to four trains per day with the no Sunday service ceased. The weekday service remained more or less unchanged until closure, although Although Sunday services south of Bridgnorth were re-introduced<ref name="Morriss47" />. Through passenger services from Kidderminster via in the Loop were mainly towards the Tenbury Branch. In addition to the one departure to Shrewsbury referred to abovelate 1940s, the October 1940 timetable showed four departures for all stations to Woofferton; by June 1947 this had increased to five<ref>[[Bibliography | Turley (2005), p18-21]]</ref>. ===Local passenger services===With just four weekday service remained more or five through trains per dayless unchanged, much of the passenger traffic on the line was for local services. At apart from briefly becoming even worse in the south endlate 1950s, the local service was sometimes nicknamed ‘The Bewdley Banjo’<ref>[[Bibliography | Turley (2005), p35]]</ref>. This was mainly provided by an auto-coach until the early 1940s, and thereafter by a diesel railcar. The service would operate throughout the day around the triangle formed by Kidderminster, Bewdley and Hartlebury, occasionally going through to Highley (providing a service for miners working there) and as far as Bridgnorthclosure in 1963.
===Goods services===
Other goods traffic involved sugar beet trains from Kidderminster to Foley Park. The processing season ran from mid-September to mid-January, during which time up to four complete trains per day would arrive at Kidderminster. Shunting of these loads from Kidderminster yard to the Foley Park factory required a shunting engine to be available 24 hours per day<ref>[[Bibliography | Turley (2005), p72.]]</ref>.
Coal trains from Alveley required use of a tender engine. Post-War these were usually operated by a GWR 4300 class 2-6-0.  ===Timetable extracts===This section provides links to individual pages showing detailed timetables in use during commercial service. '''West Midland Railway:'''* [[Timetable: Shrewsbury to Worcester 1862 | Shrewsbury to Worcester 1862]]'''GWR:'''* [[Timetable: Severn Valley and Tenbury Branch 1866 | Severn Valley and Tenbury Branch 1866]]* [[Timetable: Severn Valley Branch 1876 | Severn Valley Branch 1876]] (WTT, includes goods trains, signalling instructions &c.)* [[Timetable: Severn Valley and Tenbury Branch 1877 | Severn Valley and Tenbury Branch 1877]]* [[Timetable: Severn Valley and Tenbury Branch 1878 | Severn Valley and Tenbury Branch 1878]]* [[Timetable: Severn Valley and Tenbury Branch 1887 | Severn Valley and Tenbury Branch 1887]]* [[Timetable: Shrewsbury to Worcester 1900|Shrewsbury to Worcester 1900]]* [[Timetables: Severn Valley Branch; Bewdley, Tenbury and Woofferton 1902|Severn Valley Branch, Bewdley, Tenbury and Woofferton 1902]]* [[Timetables: Severn Valley Branch; Bewdley, Tenbury and Woofferton 1910|Severn Valley Branch, Bewdley, Tenbury and Woofferton 1910]]* [[Timetables: Severn Valley Branch; Bewdley, Tenbury and Woofferton 1922 | Severn Valley Branch; Bewdley, Tenbury and Woofferton 1922]]* [[Timetable: Kidderminster to Woofferton 1936 | Kidderminster to Woofferton 1936]]'''BR:'''* [[Timetable: Kidderminster to Woofferton 1948 | Kidderminster to Woofferton 1948]]* [[Timetable: Severn Valley Line 1948 | Severn Valley Line 1948]]* [[Media:Timetable Shrewsbury to Worcester 1953.jpg | Severn Valley Line 1953]]* [[Media:Timetable Kidderminster to Hartlebury via Bewdley.jpg | Kidderminster to Hartlebury via Bewdley 1953]]* [[Media:Timetable Woofferton to Kiddeminster 1953.jpg | Tenbury Line 1953]]* [[Timetable: Severn Valley and Tenbury Lines 1959 | Severn Valley and Tenbury Lines 1959]]* [[Timetable: Severn Valley and Tenbury Lines 1960 | Severn Valley and Tenbury Lines 1960]]* [[Timetable: Severn Valley and Tenbury Lines 1962 | Severn Valley and Tenbury Lines 1962]]* [[Timetable: Severn Valley Branch 1963 | Severn Valley Branch 1963]]
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