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An 1897 photo from the GRC&W shows a wagon built for E.B.Mason marked with "Return to Sand Quarries, Stourport". The location of the sand quarry and its associated siding are not known, however, a visitor to the SVR in 2022 recalled meeting someone who worked for Masons in the 1930s loading sand into canal boats to be shipped to Stourport where it was transferred to railway wagons.<ref>[https://www.facebook.com/groups/2360466988/posts/10158999000296989/ Discussion on the Unofficial SVR Facebook Group]</ref>. Ordnance Survey maps show sand pits adjacent to the canal north of Stourport from the 1880s to the 1950s. [https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=15.8&lat=52.35018&lon=-2.27060&layers=168&b=1 Link to map]
On 10 May 1899 the GWR traffic committee agreed to provide a siding to serve Mr Griffith's sand fields at [[Buildwas]] at an estimated cost to him of £138.<ref name=Marshall111>[[Bibliography#Books|Marshall (1989)]] p. 111.</ref>The 1881 OS map shows the southernmost siding which was accessed by a reversal from the pumping station siding; this is presumably Mr Griffith's siding of 1899.
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