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During 1942 additional track work was laid to enable the '''Smethwick Drop Forgings Ltd.''' ("SDF") factory on the Stourport road at Kidderminster to gain main line rail access via the British Sugar Corporation's [[Foley Park sidings]].<ref name=Turley>[[Bibliography#Books|Turley (2005)]] p. 77.</ref> The factory had already acquired Much of the land from between SDF and the Foley Park sidings was owned by [[Thomas Vale & Sons]] who made similar use of had their own private siding connected to the BSC sidings. SDF acquired an area of land from Thomas Vale prior to the new track work being laid.<ref>1940s plan of the proposed new siding</ref>

Owing to the amount of wartime traffic it generated, the factory SDF was provided with small shunting locomotive by the Ministry of Supply ("M.O.S.").<ref name=Turley/> The locomotive, W.G. Bagnall 0-4-0ST works no. 2664/1942 "S.D.F No 1", remained at Foley Park until late 1947 before moving to Newcastle Upon Tyne.<ref>[http://www.miac.org.uk/drop.html Keith Beddoes via miac.org.uk]</ref><ref group="note">Turley refers to "William Barclay of Stafford". This is presumably a typographical error; W.G. Bagnall were based at Stafford while Andrew Barclay & Sons were a Scottish company.</ref>

The extension to track work between SDF and the siding Foley Park sidings has not been found on any post-War OS maps, suggesting it may have been lifted again after M.O.S. use ended.