Thomas Vale & Sons

1938 Ordnance Survey map showing a sand and gravel pit south of the Beet Sugar Factory

Thomas Vale & Sons' siding is listed in the RCHRailway Clearing House 1938 Handbook of Stations as having a business at Kidderminster accessed via the British Sugar Corporation sidings at Foley park.

Thomas Vale & Sons was established in Stourport in 1869 and still exists today as Thomas Vale Construction. They commenced construction of the sugar factory in 1925, for which a temporary siding was laid.

T. Vale & Sons were listed in Kelly's Directory of 1936 as "gravel merchants, Oldington".

See also

• Private sidings connected to the Severn Valley Railway
• Foley Park sidings

References

Railway Clearing House Handbook of Stations including Junctions, sidings, Collieries, Works &C. 1938

Links

1:25000 Ordnance Survey map of Kidderminster on the National Library of Scotland web site