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*The Bridgnorth, Wolverhampton & Staffordshire Railway (June 1866). This would have left the S&BR near Oxley Viaduct, proceeding via Wombourne and Halfpenny Green to cross the Severn near Oldbury before joining the Severn Valley Railway just south of Bridgnorth. Curiously, the GWR had opposed its construction, seeing it as an attempt by the LNWR to reach Wales. Although this was overruled, the powers lapsed when funds could not be raised.
*The GWR Additional Powers Act (July 1905). The GWR’s own scheme was broadly similar to the above, but crossing the Severn close to Quatford before joining the Severn Valley Railway nearer Eardington with a triangle junction. However, even before the bill was passed, the GWR had introduced a [[Bridgnorth steam bus service | steam bus service]] between Wolverhampton Low Level Station and Bridgnorth Station, soon replaced by motor buses. Although the Kingswinford and Wombourne section (“the Wombourne Branch”) was completed in 1925, the Bridgnorth section had been postponed by 1913. Another GWR Additional Powers Act in 1925 resurrected the possibility of its resumption, but the lack of traffic and growth of road transport soon led to it being abandoned.
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File:Steam_Bus_1904.jpg | A steam bus at Bridgnorth in November 1904. (Sellick Collection)
