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The [[Timetable: Severn Valley Line 1948 | BR(W) 1948 working timetable]] gives an example of this working, which began with a 9.30am departure from Hartlebury and ended at [[Coton Hill Yard | Shrewsbury Coton Hill yard]] at 6.58pm. The stop at [[Cressage]] has a note in the timetable 'To deal with Cattle traffic and perform S.T. work only', the S.T. referring to the [[Station Truck]] forming part of the train.
==Seasonal sugar beet traffic==
The opening of the West Midlands Sugar Co (later British Sugar Corporation) factory at [[Foley Park sidings]] in 1925 began sugar beet trains to Foley Park, which ran until closure of the factory in 1982. The processing season ran from mid-September to mid-January, during which time up to four complete trains per day would arrive at Kidderminster. Tripping these loads from Kidderminster yard along the [[Kidderminster Loop Line|Loop line]] required a locomotive to be available 24 hours per day<ref>[[Bibliography | Turley (2005), p72.]]</ref>.
==Examples of references to goods traffic==
A luggage train "of considerable length" carrying sacks of bran, iron fencing and copper sheets through Tenbury on its way to Bewdley in 1864.<ref>[https://postimg.cc/mcK3JDzH Worcestershire Chronicle - Wednesday 09 November 1864]</ref>
