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Long-mooted plans by Network Rail to replace the footbridge received financial approval in 2021, with works programmed from December until March 2022. The proposed design will be a single-span constructed in ‘weathering steel’ with new abutments at each end. All traces of the existing bridge will disappear including the central brick pier.<ref name=blsep21>[https://www.svrlive.com/blsep21 Branch Lines, September 2021]</ref> The SVR's aspiration to extend the bridge to give access from the station to the [[Kidderminster Turntable | turntable]] will remain an aspiration, due to a lack of funds.
The old bridge span was lifted out in the early morning of Sunday 13 February 2022.
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