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[[File:Kidderminster Goods Yard - geograph.org.uk - 248537.jpg |thumb|200px|right| Kidderminster Goods Yard in September 1983 (Geograph)]]
This page gives a history of the creation of the SVR’s Kidderminster Town Station on the site of the former BR goods yard.
==Before Opening day==
[[File:Kidderminster Goods Yard - geograph.org.uk - 248565.jpg | thumb|200px|right| Kidderminster Goods Yard in February 1984 (Geograph)]]
[[File:SVR Kidderminster Station under construction - geograph.org.uk - 248539.jpg | thumb|200px|right| May 1984, 2 months from opening (Wikimedia Commons)]]
'''February 1984''':
:The SVR applied for the Light Railway Order (LRO) necessary to operate over the last section of the line between Foley Park and Kidderminster. Even though they would now own the line, without an LRO they could not use it without a hired-in BR driver. This made it more difficult and costly to move materials to Kidderminster from elsewhere on the line.
==After Opening Day==
After opening, the Railway was initially restricted to ‘one engine in steam’ on the Kidderminster extension. During the summer of 1984 facilities at Kidderminster were primitive; the booking office was a converted coach, catering and toilets were temporary structures and the gift shop was likely to blow away in a gale. But already the new station building was under way. Stage Phase 1, the West wing now housing the gift shop, opened in time for the 1984 Winter Santa services to run from Kidderminster. Stage Phase 2, including the station front, was built the following summer. From time to time further additions were made to the station; these include a number of project projects sponsored by the [[Friends of Kidderminster Town Station]] which include such as the Port Cochere style canopy at front of the building and the ornamental roof crestings. The pattern for these cast roof crestings were copied at the SVR's pattern shop from fragments of originals recovered from Ross-on-Wye.Further developments Phase 3, the building of the station include East wing which is now home to the buffet, took place in February 2006. The concourse roof as recently as was also installed at the same time. (Pictures from Wikimedia Commons)<br><gallery>File:Building work at Kidderminster Town Station - geograph.org.uk - 118931.jpg | February 2006, preparations for Phase 3File:New Canopy at Kidderminster Town Station - geograph.org.uk - 134319. jpg | February 2006, installation of new canopy </gallery> Future plans include a canopy along the platform length similar to that at Bewdley.
==See also==
[[Kidderminster]]
