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Slack trains would also arrive from the LMS area via Great Bridge to Hartlebury from where they would reverse to Stourport, returning empty. The trains consisted of around 36 wagons with LMS brake vans at each end. These were normally worked by a [[Locomotives used on the Severn Valley Branch in commercial service#Goods locomotives |GWR 56xx 0-6-2T]], generally no. 6665 or 6684 from Stourbridge. In 1956 Kidderminster was allocated its own 56xx, no. 6679<ref name=Turley/>.
A brief glimpse of a diesel hauled coal train can be seen in the background at the end of this Media Archive for Central England film on the opening of Trimpley Waterworks in 1967. [https://www.macearchive.org/films/midlands-news-05051967-pumping-station-opened-trimpley www.macearchive.org]
==Daily goods train==
