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Foley Park Halt

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==Foley Park Halt==
[[File: Foley_Park_OS.jpg |thumb|300px|right| Extract from 1951 OS Map showing Foley Park Halt]]
Foley Park Halt was located on the [[Kidderminster Loop Line|loop line]] between [[Kidderminster]] and [[Bewdley]] and opened on 2 January 1905. It was located next to [[Stourport Road Bridge]]; originally situated on the South side of the line but later moved to the North side when [[Foley Park sidings]] were opened in 1925. The extract from Ordnance Survey Map SO87, surveyed 1938 - 1949, published 1951, shows the later location.
The halt was initially served by a [[GWR Steam Railmotor | steam railmotor]] service which began the same day, lasting until 1918.
A letter from the GWR to the Board of Trade, dated 24 December 1904, requests the Board to provisionally sanction the work being carried out on the new "stopping place for rail motor cars".<br>On 29 April 1905, Major I.W.Pringle inspected the "calling place for motor car service" at Foley Park and the similar platform at [[Rifle Range Halt]] and recommended the Board of Trade to approve their use.<ref>Documents held at Shropshire Archives</ref>
The halt On 29 April 1905, Major I. W. Pringle inspected the "calling place for motor car service" at Foley Park and the similar platform at [[Rifle Range Halt]] and recommended the Board of Trade to approve their use.<ref>Documents held at Shropshire Archives</ref> It was in later years named Foley Park (without the 'Halt'), photographed as such with a BR modern 'Rail Alphabet' running in board in May 1969. It closed on 6 January 1970 when passenger services ceased between Bewdley and Kidderminster. Little or no trace of the halt is visible today.
==Historic maps of Foley Park Halt==
== Photographs ==
 
* [http://www.rcts.org.uk/features/mysteryphotos/show.htm?page=1&serial=20&img=Y-72-19 A DMU at Foley Park Halt.]
* [https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=740076727635111&set=gm.9461424327204840&idorvanity=1730959503584733 Image of Foley Park in May 1969 posted by Graham Larkbey on 23 January 2023]
== See also ==
 
[[List of stations]]
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