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Wyre Forest Line

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==The completed line==
[[File:WyreForestRailcarColour.jpg|thumb|300px|right|In this photoshop 'colourised' image, an ex-GWR railcar runs through the Wyre Forest on a typical branch line service]]
[[File:Tenbury line rambles poster.jpg|thumb|300px|right|Poster advertising rambles from stations along the Tenbury Branch in 1957]]
 
Following the completion of the Tenbury & Bewdley Railway in 1864, the GWR took over the working of traffic over the Tenbury Railway section on behalf of the joint companies, with the LNWR also having running powers. As part of this process, the GWR telegraph system was extended to Woofferton; also the LNWR agreed to a turntable being installed at Tenbury to be paid for by the GWR. This turntable was moved from Bewdley and re-erected in the goods yard at Tenbury. (Some confusion has occurred in the past, as there was a small wagon turntable at Woofferton in its early days.). The completed line ran north from the GWR station at [[Bewdley]] on a single line track alongside the Severn Valley Line for a distance of about a mile before diverging to the west to cross the river Severn at [[Dowles Bridge]] (the viaduct referred to by Capt. Tyler), the remains of which are visible from trains on the SVR. The abutments where the line passed over what is now the B4194 remain in-situ. The line continued to Woofferton via Wyre Forest, Cleobury Mortimer, Neen Sollars, Newnham Bridge, Tenbury (later renamed Tenbury Wells) and Easton Court.
In 1908 the [[Cleobury Mortimer and Ditton Priors Light Railway]] opened. This connected with the Tenbury & Bewdley Railway at Cleobury Mortimer and ran as a spur for 12½ miles to Ditton Priors.
 
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File:Tenbury breakfast.jpg | Invitation to breakfast to celebrate the opening of the line
File:WyreForestRailcarColour.jpg | A colourised image of an ex-GWR railcar running through the Wyre Forest on a typical branch line service.
File:Tenbury line rambles poster.jpg | Poster advertising rambles from stations along the Tenbury Branch in 1957
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==A Shropshire Lad==

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