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There is a small café building behind the station, known from 2024 as '''The Weighbridge Tea Room at Arley Station''', which serves hot and cold drinks and snacks. It was sometimes referred to as ''Tom's Cabin'', after an earlier building. It remained closed after the [[2020 coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic]] until reopened in time for the 2023 [[Spring Steam Gala]] by station volunteers.
The [[Arley Station Fund]] has a shop next to in the refreshment kiosk former GWR Goods Lock Up in the station yard(see below).
==Film and TV productions filmed at Arley==
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Arley_Anderson_Shelter_20180705.jpg|Anderson Shelter
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=== Goods Lock Up ===
A number of stations on the Severn Valley branch were provided with a Goods Lock Up, a small corrugated iron hut where parcels and other merchandise traffic could be securely stored while awaiting collection or delivery. Lockups were generally built to a standard GWR design, although with many detail differences. Lengths also varied, with 10ft, 14ft and 20ft being common.<ref>Posters and photographs on display at Eardington, April 2024</ref>
The former Goods Lock Up at Arley in the yard to the rear of the station now serves as the [[Arley Station Fund| Arley Station Fund shop]]. A similar Goods Lock Up can also be seen on Platform 1 at [[Hampton Loade#Goods Lock Up|Hampton Loade]]. The footprint of a third Goods Lock Up can be seen next to the station building at [[Eardington#Goods Lock Up|Eardington]], although the structure itself was removed, probably in the late 1940s. All three examples are (or were) of the 20ft type.
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Arley_Station_Fund_Shop_20170401.jpg |Arley's former Goods Lock Up
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