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Goods traffic on the SVR

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Outside the regular beet season, the factory was kept supplied by train loads of sugar cane from Newport or Cardiff docks. Tank loads of molasses, a by-product of the refining process, were shipped from the factory to Avonmouth docks<ref>[[Bibliography | Turley (2005), p74.]]</ref>.
 
==Cattle==
A number of the stations on the branch had 'cattle docks' from which loaded cattle wagons could be collected. Post-War, cattle trains ran on market days as required from Bridgnorth on alternate Mondays and Tenbury on alternate Tuesdays to Bordesley via Kidderminster<ref>[[Bibliography#Books|Turley (2005) p. 80.]]</ref>
==Bricks and tiles==
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