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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 trafficSugar==
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>
*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>
*1867 [[Tales from the Severn Valley#Daring_robberies_from_Bewdley_goods_shed|thefts from Bewdley goods shed]] included a ham; 'other articles suitable for domestic consumption'; clothing, and liquor.<ref>[https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/BL/0000150/18670831/065/0003?browse=False Worcester Journal of Saturday 31 August 1867 on the British Newspaper Archive]</ref>
*Around 1867 charcoal production was a significant industry in Bewdley and the Wyre Forest. At 4am on Wednesday 15th May 1867, a wagon loaded with charcoal caught fire "through carelessness in loading it with a piece of lighted charcoal". The fire spread to the two adjacent wagons and resulted in two wagons being destroyed.<ref>[https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/BL/0000150/18670518/106/0008?browse=False Worcester Journal on the British Newspaper Archive]</ref>
*"The timber obtained from <nowiki>[the Wyre Forest]</nowiki> is used for the most part in collieries in South Staffordshire" in 1884.<ref>[https://postimg.cc/18KMffSF Worcester Journal - Saturday 31 May 1884]</ref>
