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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 filmed at, Arley. The station has temporarily carried other identities for filming purposes, including:
*[[Candleshoe]] 1977 (''Hambleden'')
*[[Silver Blaze]] 1977 (''Tavistock'')
*[[The Good Soldier]] 1981 (''Branshaw'')
*[[L For Lester]] 1982 (''Barrow Gurney'')
*[[The Box Of Delights]] 1984 (''Condicote'')
*[[A Wreath of Roses]] 1987 (''Hampton'', for which a dummy footbridge connected platforms 1 and 2)
*[[The Halt]] 1987 (''Newton Halt'')
*[[Oh Doctor Beeching!]] 1995-97 (''Hatley'', see below)
*[[Goodnight Mister Tom]] 1998 (''Weirwold'')
*[[Enola Holmes]] 2020 (''Ferndell'')
===Oh Doctor Beeching!===
The signalbox had a name plate above the door.
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File:Hatley1.jpg | Hatley (Arley) signal box
File:Hatley2.jpg | Film prop cottages at Arley
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==Points of Interestinterest==
===Station buildings===
In 2016, a number of stone sills, coping stones and quoins were replaced.
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File:Arley SVR Station, northbound platform - geograph.org.uk - 699616.jpg | Shelter on Platform 2 (Wikimedia Commons)
File:Arley kiosk.jpg | Refreshment kiosk
When the SVR first re-opened the line between Hampton Loade and Bewdley in [[Severn Valley Railway Timeline 1970-1979 #1974 | 1974]], there was no facility to pass trains, the Up loop (the running line nearer the station building) having been removed by BR in the 1960s. This was re-laid over the next year and re-opened on [[Severn Valley Railway Timeline 1970-1979 #1974 | 25 May 1975]].
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File:S0635 Arley Station 1972.jpg | Rebuilding platform 2 in 1972 (David Cooke)
File: S6842 Arley Station 1973.jpg | Relaying the Up line (David Cooke)
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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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File:Arley phone box.jpg
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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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Arley_Anderson_Shelter_20180705.jpg|Anderson Shelter
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===GWR 446 6Ton Hand Crane6 ton hand crane===[[GWR 446 6Ton Hand Crane]] is stabled with [[BR 707261 Crane Runner | Crane Runner 707261]], which will be swapped with [[GWR 2501 'Rotank' 6-Wheeled Road Milk Tank Flat Wagon]] that will which arrived in July 2021 to replace the former [[BR 707261 Crane Runner | Crane Runner 707261]], 2501 being considered better suit suited to the crane.<ref>SVR Wagons Facebook 13 January 2019</ref> The crane and flat wagon will undergo cosmetic restoration.
<gallerymode=packed heights=200px style="text-align:left">GWR_446_and_B707261_20190506.jpg|GWR Crane 446 and former crane runner 707621 at Arley in May 2019GWR_2501_20210729.jpg|New crane runner GWR 2501 in July 2021
GWR446.16.01.88.jpg|GWR Crane 446 in use at Bewdley in 1988
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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
*1960 map showing no significant changes in over 30 years
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File:GWRplanArley.jpg
File:Arley1885map.jpg | 1885
== Gallery ==
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File:Arley-Prairie-1959-10-03.jpeg | An ex-GWR Prairie calls at Arley in October 1959 ([[Sellick Collection]])
File:Arley-1962-09-29.jpg|Pannier 3619 calls at Arley in September 1962 ([[Sellick Collection]])
