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The goods yard consisted of the 'Top Yard' between Comberton Road and the [[Kidderminster Footbridge]] (the area now mainly occupied by the SVR station) and the 'Bottom Yard' beyond the Footbridge, now mainly occupied by the SVR’s [[Diesel Depot]] and [[Kidderminster Carriage Shed]].<ref name=Turley>[[Bibliography#Books|Turley (2005)]] p. 13.</ref>
The yard handled general goods traffic from the Severn Valley and Tenbury branches and elsewhere. By the mid-20th century the main local industries served were Carpets (jute from Dundee arriving, finished products leaving) and Sugar (beet, cane, limestone and coal arriving, refined sugar and molasses leaving). In 1939 16,000 tons of beet were sourced almost entirely from GWR territory: Herefordshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Worcestershire, Gloucestershire, Warwickshire, Wiltshire, Dorset, Somerset, Devon and Cornwall; imported cane came via Cardiff docks.<ref>SVR Magazine, December 1939 pp. 484-5</ref> The yard was extremely busy, with shunting taking place continuously from 6.00am on Monday to 2.00pm on Sunday.<ref name=Turley/> The 1946 Service Timetable included the following details:
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