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[[File:OS_Kidderminster_Top_Yard_1938.jpg|thumb|300px|right|Map showing the location of the corn mill and private sidings]]
[[File:EPW059860.jpg|thumb|300px|right|Aerial view of Kidderminster Station and Yard showing J.P.Harvey's corn mill and the fence separating it from the main goods yard.]]
'''J . P . Harvey & Co Ltd''' operated a corn mill adjacent to [[Kidderminster mainline station#Goods yard|Kidderminster Goods Yard]]. A 1936 GWR Worcester Area Traffic Research Report discusses negotiations with "J. & P. Harvey" and Worcester Farmers Ltd. and mentions Harvey & Co's private siding at Kidderminster. The company employed a shunting horse which was used to move wagons around the private siding.<ref>[[Bibliography#Books|Turley (2005)]] p. 83.</ref>
==J.P.Harvey's private sidings==The 1938 map shows the corn mill and the fence separating it from the goods yard, and its position in relation to the GWR goods sheds, which now serve as [[Kidderminster Railway Museum]] and the [[Carriage Repair Works]]. The layout of the private sidings can also be seen.<ref group="note">The map is a composite of two OS 25in maps, both revised and published circa 1938. It is not clear if the apparent slight discontinuity in the sidings at the boundary of the map is simply due to printing differences or if some change in the layout of Harvey's sidings had taken place around that time.</ref>
Just before the corn mill, a small siding turns towards what appears to be a sand or gravel pit. This may be [[J.H.Smith|J.H. Smith's siding]] which was listed in the RCH 1938 Handbook of Stations as having a business at Kidderminster accessed via J.P.Harvey's siding..
In 1943 two additional sidings were added in the area marked "310 1.624". One was a third siding for Harveys adjacent to the two shown on the map, and the other next to it was the [[Summerfield Siding]].
The company employed a shunting horse which was used to move wagons around the private siding.<ref>[[Bibliography#Books|Turley (2005)]] p. 83.</ref> Between 1973 and 1977, [[Wagons formerly resident on the SVR|ex J.P.Harvey 'GRANO' grain hopper van 42239]] was resident on the SVR.
==Business history==
