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==The Stationstation==
Arley station has two platforms and a [[Arley signal box|signal box]], allowing trains travelling in opposite directions to pass.
During periods of lighter traffic, when [[Arley signal box]] is switched out, all trains use the platform adjacent to the main station building.
From January to Easter 2011 the SVR's winter works dealt with severe damage at Arley due to ground movement caused by failed drainage, in turn occasioning track twist. The Up platform was rebuilt, drainage installed and track relaid at a cost of £367,000.<ref>Railway Magazine September 2010</ref><ref>SVR(H) Report and Accounts for year ensding ending 31 December 2011, page 3.</ref>
In February 2017 the waiting room at Arley Station became licensed to hold civil marriages and partnerships, with space for up to 21 people. Further information on packages may be found on the [http://www.svr.co.uk/Weddings_Day_Package.aspx SVR website Wedding Day Packages page].
Arley was until 2018 also the site of [[Santa's Grotto]] for the [[Christmas services|Santa Special services]]. From 2020 it hosted the plays that formed part of the SVR's Christmas services.
==Arley village==
The village itself is named Upper Arley (also historically Over Arley<ref>[http://www.gutenberg.org/files/17612/17612-h/17612-h.htm Handbook to the Severn Valley Railway, by J. Randall 1863]</ref><ref>[http://www.shropshirestar.com/entertainment/2016/05/03/the-first-ever-map-of-shropshire-up-for-sale/ 1579 map of Shropshire on the Shropshire Star web site]</ref>), which differentiates it from the similarly named, but differently spelled Areley Kings less than six miles away near Stourport.
==Facilities==
Arley station does not have a public car park. There is Until 2020 there was a small café building behind the station which serves served hot and cold drinks and snacks, but has not reopened after the [[2020 coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic]].
==Film and TV productions filmed at Arley==
Several [[List of film and TV productions filmed on the Severn Valley Railway|film and TV productions]] have scenes from, or been filmed at, Arley.
===Aliases===
The station has temporarily carried other identities connected with filming.
*[[A Wreath of Roses]] (''Hampton'', for which a dummy footbridge connected platforms 1 and 2)
*[[Candleshoe]] (''Hambleden'')
*[[Goodnight Mister Tom]] (''Weirwold'')
*[[Oh Doctor Beeching!]] (''Hatley'', see below)
*[[Silver Blaze]] (''Tavistock'')
*[[The Box Of Delights]] (''Condicote'')
*[[The Good Soldier]] (''Branshaw'')
*[[The Halt]] (''Newton Halt'')
===Oh Doctor Beeching!===
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==Points of Interestinterest==
===Station buildings===
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===Telephone Kioskkiosk===
The telephone kiosk on Platform 1, which can be seen in the main picture above, was acquired from the P.O. in Birmingham circa late 1981, having been vandalised ‘beyond economic repair’<ref>SVR News 62</ref>. Once at Arley it was duly repaired, and within a year had been returned to full working order<ref>SVR News 66</ref>.
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===Anderson Sheltershelter===An Anderson Shelter shelter was erected in the picnic garden in 2018, where it could be seen during that year’s ‘Step Back to the 1940s’ weekends. More than 3.5 million of these shelters were issued to the public before and during World War II to provide shelter from bombs and shrapnel. This particular example was originally installed at a house in Weoley Castle, Birmingham, and was donated to the SVR by Lisa Priest of Birmingham City Council and Mrs Dorothy Sigures of Weoley Castle.<ref>Information board next to the shelter</ref><ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_raid_shelter#Anderson_shelter Anderson shelter on Wikipedia]</ref>
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===GWR 446 6Ton Hand Crane6 ton hand crane===
[[GWR 446 6Ton Hand Crane]] is stabled with [[GWR 2501 'Rotank' 6-Wheeled Road Milk Tank Flat Wagon]] which arrived in July 2021 to replace the former [[BR 707261 Crane Runner | Crane Runner 707261]], 2501 being considered better suited to the crane.<ref>SVR Wagons Facebook 13 January 2019</ref> The crane and flat wagon will undergo cosmetic restoration.
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==Station Mastersmasters==
Station masters at Arley since preservation have been as follows:
*C.P. May (1974-1975)
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==Historic maps of Arley Stationstation==
*GWR plan of Arley station showing the original single line with later amendments in red
