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Bridgnorth is the current Northern terminus of the SVR. It has two platforms connected by a [[Bridgnorth Station Footbridge|footbridge]], a yard, and a [[Bridgnorth signal box|signal box]]. The original Severn Valley Railway continued northwards towards Ironbridge through a 550 yard long tunnel underneath Bridgnorth High Town. From time to time the possibility of re-opening the section of the line north of Bridgnorth is raised on discussion forums and elsewhere. The official stance of the SVR varies somewhat confusingly between ''"maintaining a watching brief"'' and ''"the railway land north of Bridgnorth has been long since sold, and there is now no possibility of Severn Valley trains reaching Ironbridge and Shrewsbury ever again"''.
The main station building is listed Grade II by Historic England for its special architectural or historic interest. <ref>[https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1053173 | Bridgnorth Station on the Historic England list]</ref>
The yard at Bridgnorth is home to the [[Bridgnorth Loco Works | Loco Works]]. [[Bridgnorth MPD]] (Motive Power Department) is the principal base for the Railway's steam locomotives. Bridgnorth is also home to two new build projects, BR Class 3 locomotive [[BR 3MT 82045 | 82045]] and a replica of the Trevithick locomotive [[Catch Me Who Can]].
==Facilities==
Bridgnorth has a two car parks. The entrance to the smaller coach/car park next to the station building is in Hollybush Road. This is pay and display and includes disabled parking spaces. The entrance to the larger 'West' car parkis at the end of Station Lane off Hollybush Road, with overflow parking available a short walk away100 yards to the north of the main station entrance. Other facilities for visitors include a buffet, a A ticket to exit this car park may be purchased from the [[Bridgnorth Station Shop | gift shop]] and or 'The Railwayman’s Railwayman's Arms' pub. High Town, with its Castle Gardens and Cliff Railway, can be accessed from the SVR via a footbridge outside the entrance to the Station building.
Facilities for visitors include a buffet, a [[Bridgnorth Station Shop | gift shop]] and 'The Railwayman’s Arms' pub. High Town, with its Castle Gardens and Cliff Railway, can be accessed from the SVR via a footbridge outside the entrance to the Station building. A lineside public viewing area is situated at the foot of [[#Pan_Pudding_Hill | Pan Pudding Hill]], on the opposite side of the line from Platform 1. This can normally be accessed by taking the steps down from the car park near the Railwayman's Arms pub (the '[[Donkey Gallops]]') and going through the [[Engine Shed Underpass]]. A flight of steps on the right then leads up to the viewing area. When access is allowed to the Bridgnorth Works (normally only during Gala events), access to the viewing area is possible direct from the south end of Platform 2.
==Bridgnorth Development Project==
[[File:Bridgnorth New Building 20181229.jpg|thumb|300px|right|The new building in December 2018]]
[[File:Bridgnorth_Artists_Impression_1_20161126.jpg|thumb|300px|right |Artist's impression of the new station building beyond the footbridge, with the existing building in the foreground.]]
[[File:Bridgnorth_Artists_Impression_2_20161126.jpg|thumb|300px|right |Artist's impression of the new station building looking north.]]
===Objectives===
The Bridgnorth site is the subject of a development project, the first phase of which will see saw the long-overdue removal of the Portacabin style Refreshment room (installed in 1979 "as a temporary measure"<ref>SVR News 51</ref>; previous buffet facilities having been in an old [[Carriages formerly resident on the SVR#Carriages formerly at the SVR but later moved elsewhere | BR Mk 1 Tourist Second Open]]), and its replacement with a circa-1900 Great Western style single-storey building which will be is located to the south of the existing Jacobean style station building. ===The 'Inchcape' site===On 17 June 2014 David Postle attended an SVR(H) Board meeting to propose the acquisition of the adjacent 'Inchcape' site at ‘no cost’ to the railway, leasing the site at a cost of £65,000 per annum for three years with an option to purchase at a price of £1,200,000. Together with colleagues he offered that the first three years' costs would be underwritten so that there would be no financial impact on the railway. The Board considered that the price was over-stated as advisors had indicated a market value of approximately £750,000.<ref>[https://forum.svr-online.org.uk/viewtopic.php?t=2422 General Manager's Statement 23 June 2014]</ref>
===Evolution of plans===
Other phases should also see the refurbishment of the existing station building including the booking hall, shop, and Railwayman's Arms. Further phases will see improved car parking facilities, and the installation of a [[Bridgnorth Turntable|turntable]] and, subject . Subject to funding, a further phase will see construction of a new volunteer accommodation building. A summary of the evolution of plans is shown below.
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! Project !! 2012 share offer !! 2016 share offer !! September 2018<ref>NBI September 2018</ref> !! SVR News 204 Winter 2018 !! Notes
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|New catering and toilets||Included||Phase I, reduced height and size||Phase I||Phase I||Opened January 2019. Non-uniformed staff catering now (from 2018) to be included in the Graham Hill building (next to the Boilershop)
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|Refurbished station|| Included ||Phase I||Phase III||Phase IV||In November 2016 work was continuing on detailed plans for the refurbishment of the existing station, with the contract for the remaining works of the first phase to be signed in January 2017.<ref>SVR Live</ref> In September 2018 plans and costs were incomplete and "will inevitably take a period of time to reconcile". Works will were not to begin before Winter 2019/20 to develop the plans, apply for funding and a period of calm.<ref>NBI September 2018</ref> In October 2020 it required detailed plans to be drawn up before going for confirmed costings.<ref name="bloct20"/>
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|New car park in fields|| Included ||Phase II||Phase II||Phase II||Opened December 2018
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|Turntable|| Included ||Phase II||Phase IIb (TBC)|| Phase III||The location has been revised and is subject to a new planning application, costs are also being assessed for remodeling the loco yard at Bridgnorth to accommodate direct access to the turntable and provide space for Platform 2 extension.
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|Volunteer accommodation|| Included, in plans for Hollybush Road sidings ||Phase III*||Phase IV||Not included||As *Funds for Phase III were not within the 2016 share offer of £2.5m.<br>Intended as part of workshop and stores to rear of MPD, a storage block is now not urgently required. The SVR will reconsider how best to provide volunteer accommodation, this is unlikely to commence until 2021 because of the current commitments on civils and building projects.<ref>[https://www.svrlive.com/epmay19 Express Points May 2019]</ref>
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|Independent mobility across the site|| Included, by means of additional lifts at the north end of the station ||Not included||Not included||Not included||
|-
|}
In October 2020 the SVR reverted to the phasing in the 2016 prospectus, with conservation of the Bridgnorth station building prioritised as a phase I project for the remaining share monies.<ref name="bloct20">[https://www.svrlive.com/bloct20 Branch Lines, October 2020]</ref>
===Milestones===
*August 2016: The planning application was approved by the Council.<ref>[http://www.svr.co.uk/NewsItem.aspx?a=742 SVR Website news item]</ref>
*November 2016:
:The SVR launched a further [[Severn Valley Railway (Holdings) PLC#Share_offers|share offer]] seeking to raise up to £2.5m towards the project.The share offer document confirmed that £1m from the 2012 share offer been spent or committed to the project, and that the additional £2.5m was required to meet the anticipated costs of completing Phase One (station buildings) and Phase Two (car parking and turntable). A third phase (new accommodation building) was not part of the share offer.<ref>2016 Share Offer Document pp. 16-19.</ref>
:Contractors arrived on site to begin work on the first phase, some preliminary work having already been carried out by SVR staff and volunteers. Completion was initially expected to be in mid-2017.
*December 2016: Installation of all 63 piles completed.
*May 2017: Bricklaying began at a ceremony on 3 May. A revised target date of October 2017 was imtimated for the new building.
*October 2017: It was announced the new facility would not provide for staff meals "across the whole service" as beforehand, due to the dimensions of the new buffet. A Working Group was set up to utilise instead the Engineering Services mess room for volunteer catering.<ref>[https://www.svrlive.com/working-members SVRLive]</ref>
*October 2017: Proceeds from the share offer reached the target of £2.5m on the final day: it raised £2,548,595 gross, £2,427,348 net of costs. £807,000 was allocated from the 2012 share monies giving a net total of £3,234,348 for the project. Work continued on the building structure.*March 2018: First phase work, much delayed, continued with the first roof slates being laid by the end of the month. A project team was working on the specification of the West side project, which includes the field car park, access roads and [[Bridgnorth Turntable|turntable]]. It was intended to tender for this phase during the summer of 2018.<ref>SVR NBI March 2018</ref> First phase work, much delayed, continued with the first roof slates being laid by the end of the month.
*April 2018 roofing took place and the scaffolding was largely removed from the exterior of the building
*June 2018 In the rear service yard area, the “Bovey Tracey” outbuilding building had the framework erected and covered in breathable felt ready for the external corrugated cladding to be applied. This is based on a goods lock up that used to adorn Bovey Tracey station on the Moretonhampstead branch in Devon. The SVR version will serve serves as a plant room housing the heating boiler and food preparation area for the volunteer [[Severn Valley Venturer]] catering staff.
*July 2018 a completion and hand-over was forecast for the third week in July.<ref>SVR News 201, p. 15</ref>. This was followed by a revised plan to open on 3 September. An announcement in September gave a date of end of 2018, with a formal opening in Spring 2019.<ref>SVR Forum, September 2018</ref>
* October 2018 the former ‘overflow’ parking field was closed for contractors to construct a carefully surfaced, illuminated 200-space visitor West car park and access/egress roadsroutes. * November 2018 Walsh Construction successfully tendered for this work at the north end a cost of the station contractors commenced laying a concreted access route from the new West car park to the station£642, past 000.<ref>SVR News 205</ref> It opened in December 2018 with further works in the boiler shop New Year. Barriers and parking charges came into use on 14 April 2019. * December 2018 the contractors' site offices and associated buildings were removed from the station car park following the practical completion of the much delayed, as yet unopened, new station building. The toilets and (unfinished) new car park opened. On 19 December the planning application for the proposed relocation of the turntable was withdrawn.<ref>[https://pa.shropshire.gov.uk/online-applications/applicationDetails.do?activeTab=summary&keyVal=PHW267TDHOM00 Shropshire Council 18/05183/FUL | Construction of locomotive turntable reclaimed from Bath Road Bristol and associated enabling works] (Retrieved 31 December 2018)</ref> * January 2019 the new Bridgnorth Refreshment Room opened daily during closed season.<ref>[https://www.facebook.com/RailwaymansArms/photos/a.1457434694370776/2055781847869388/?type=3&theater Railwayman's Arms Facebook 26 January 2019]</ref> The official opening was 4 April.<ref>[https://www.svrlive.com/grandopening 'SVR Shareholder Event 2019', SVRLive, 22 February 2019] (Retrieved 23 February 2019)</ref>*On 12 March 2019 the planning application for the proposed relocation of the turntable was resubmitted. Approval was granted on 30 April 2019.<ref>[https://pa.shropshire.gov.uk/online-applications/ Shropshire Planning] Ref:19/01151/FUL</ref>
SVR(H) Annual Reports give the total capital sums spent on the Bridgnorth project to the end of 2019 as £3,202k comprising:*2015: £90k*2016: £243k*2017: £551k (all three years from the 2012 share issue)*2018: £1,693k (principally £1,188k refreshment room/toilet block and £493k new car park/access roads) *2019: £625k (final payments and retention monies for the refreshment room/toilet block and new car park/access roads) In October 2019 the SVR issued an update suggesting the next phase (the Bridgnorth Turntable pit, restoration of the Turntable, renewal of track work in Bridgnorth yard and the provision of a new loco pit) would be delayed until further quotes were obtained and plans developed. The full announcement may be read on SVRLive [https://www.svrlive.com/post/bridgnorth-development-update-oct19 here]. Previous updates on this project including pictures of the work in progress can be found on the [https://www.svrlive.com/bridgnorth-development SVRLive Bridgnorth Development page]. A year later, the SVR announced that there was £264,000 remaining share monies, which was ring-fenced for the remaining phase I of the project (the Bridgnorth station building conservation and extension of the bar). It required detailed plans to be drawn up before going for confirmed costings. Phase II of the project, which includes the turntable and renewal of track work in Bridgnorth yard along with the provision of a new loco pit, will follow, but there will be a need to raise further finance, once Phase I is completed.<ref name="bloct20"/> <gallerymode=packed heights=200px style="text-align:left">File:Bridgnorth_Plans_20150930.jpg | Proposed site plan on display, September 2015
Bridgnorth_20170430.jpg|The completed base for the new building, April 2017.
Bridgnorth_Roof_20180401.jpg|View of the roof on 1 April 2018
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This view from Bridgnorth Station shows the footbridge connecting the station to New Road. It is sometimes referred to as the Hollybush Road footbridge, after the road which passes beneath it. The War Memorial in Bridgnorth High Town’s Castle Gardens can also be seen in this image.
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File: Footbridge_outside_Bridgnorth_Station_20150411.jpg |The new footbridge
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The original footbridge at this location was built by [[David Owen#Rubery_Owen|Rubery Owen & Co. Ltd. ]] in 1895at a cost of £1400.<ref>[http://specialcollections.le.ac. uk/digital/collection/p16445coll4/id/278547 Kelly's Directory of Shropshire, 1913]</ref> Its condition was allowed to deteriorate following the closure of the railway at Bridgnorth in 1963, and by 1967 owners Bridgnorth Council had announced plans for its demolition. A Public Enquiry into the future of the footbridge was held on 1 April 1968,<ref>SVR News 19</ref> and a [[Bridgnorth Footbridge Trust#Events prior to the establishment of the Bridgnorth Footbridge Trust|campaign to save the bridge]] was launched in 1969. The footbridge was closed and boarded up on 30 September 1970. In [[Severn Valley Railway Timeline 1970-1979#19745| April 1974]] Bridgnorth was demoted to rural borough status, losing its powers to spend money maintaining the footbridge. Later that year it was sold to the SVR for a nominal £1, but was reluctantly deemed beyond repair and demolished in 1976.<ref>[[Bibliography#Books|Marshall (1989)]] p. 105.</ref> A short section was cosmetically restored by SVR volunteers and placed as a feature on the roundabout at the junction of the A458 and A442 on the outskirts of Bridgnorth. <ref>[https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.5279776,-2.4123035,3a,75y,68.21h,85.73t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sblf9KSdqoLBDX4V_-HByLA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656 Section of footbridge visible on Google Street View]</ref> The 1895 bridge can also be seen in photographs 8 and 9 in the gallery of Sellick photographs below. <gallerymode=packed heights=200px style="text-align:left">
File:Bridgnorth foot bridge.jpg | The original 1895 footbridge
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The new footbridge was built under the auspices of the [[Bridgnorth Footbridge Trust]] and opened on 22 July 1994. Ownership of the footbridge later transferred to Shropshire County Council.
In January 2018 the footbridge was closed due to the station end lifting, with Shropshire County Council instigating a temporary repair before the start of the running season. It : it appeared the bridge was under tension, and the bolts at either end had corroded , and so the bridge had come adrift at each end. {{As Shropshire County Council instigated a temporary repair before the start of|2018|03}} the Council hopes to make running season with permanent repairs in Autumn 2018to follow.<ref>[http://shropshire.gov.uk/news/2018/01/footbridge-severn-valley-railway/ Shropshire County Council 19 January 2018] (Retrieved 20 January 2018)</ref>The bridge was closed for 4 weeks in February 2020 for these repairs to be completed.
==== Platform 1 ====
In early 2016 volunteers completed a further extension of the platform at the north end.<ref>[https://svrbridgnorth.wordpress.com/tag/platform-1-north-extension/ Bridgnorth Station 'platform 1 north extension'] Retrieved 14 February 2017</ref> This enabled 9-coach trains such as those with an additional observation saloon to be fully 'on platform'. The work also included replacing the adjacent 'barrow crossing'.<ref>SVR News 194</ref>
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File:Bridgnorth_Platform_1969.jpg | Bridgnorth Platform 1 in 1969 (David Cooke)
File: Bridgnorth_Platform_20150503.jpg | Bridgnorth Platform 1
==== The Railwayman's Arms ====
Bridgnorth Station building includes a licensed public bar, The Railwayman’s Arms. This remained open when the station was closed by BR in September 1963 - the group of potential preservationists who visited Bridgnorth in [[Severn Valley Railway Timeline 1965-1969#1965 | July 1965]] were challenged by [[Tales from the Severn Valley#George_Thorpe.2C_licensee_of_The_Railwayman.27s_Arms|George Thorpe ]] who ran it at the time.
The bar and cellar were extended in 1979, the contract for the work being awarded to the building contractors in February of that year.<ref>SVR News 51</ref>
In February 2017 it won the CAMRA Bridgnorth Pub Of The Year Award 2017.
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File: Railwaymans_Arms_20150503.jpg | The Railwayman’s Arms occupies the south wing of the station.
File: Railwaymans_Arms_20150516.jpg | The pub sign looking north
File: Railwaymans_Arms_20150816.jpg | The pub sign looking south
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===Hanbury Cottage===
Hanbury Cottage forms a distinctive backdrop to Bridgnorth MPD. The cottage, together with a half-acre of land, was bought by the SVR for £165,000 in May 2007 after it fell vacant.<ref>SVR News 158, Boardroom Notes</ref>. By 2009 it had been converted into the MPD crew room with DSM and Inspector's offices, plus a small kitchen and a pattern store.<ref>SVR News 168</ref>. The 1884 OS Map below refers to the property as 'Ambrose Cottage'.
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Hanbury_Cottage_20150614.jpg|Hanbury Cottage
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==== Pan Pudding Hill ====
Pan Pudding Hill was used to attack Bridgnorth Castle on other occasions, and finally in 1646 by Cromwell’s Parliamentarians during the English Civil War. After the last attack Bridgnorth Castle was blown up, leaving only the remains of the keep which can be seen in the castle grounds in High Town.<ref>[http://www.shropshirehistory.org.uk/html/search/verb/GetRecord/theme:20061123173140 shropshirehistory.org.uk] Retrieved 26 May 2015</ref>
In 2000 the TV series 'Time Team' visited Bridgnorth to investigate the area around St Mary’s Church. <ref>[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0957382/ Internet Movie Database, Time Team, Series 8, episode 11, first broadcast 11 March 2001] (Retrieved 29 December 2020)</ref> Part of the dig concentrated on Pan Pudding Hill – then in the ownership of The Apley Estate.<ref>[http://apleyestate.co.uk/film-location/ The Apley Estate] Retrieved 5 October 2017</ref> The episode is available on [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8o1yhCNpXg YouTube]. In October 2015 the SVR purchased ten acres of land to the west of Bridgnorth Station from The Apley Estate Trustees, which includes Pan Pudding Hill.<ref>[https://www.svrlive.com/copy-of-bridgnorth-development-1 SVRLive 'Purchase of 10 acres of land to the West of Bridgnorth Station' 5 October 2015] (Retrieved 14 February 2017)</ref>
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File: Pan_Pudding_Hill_20150503.jpg | Pan Pudding Hill, with the public viewing area below
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BR had already demolished the water tank on Pan Pudding Hill and the watering columns on platforms 1 and 2 before the fledgling SVR Society made contact in July 1965 asking them to stop demolition works while negotiations to buy the line took place. The SVR Society acquired replacement ‘rail level’ water columns from nearby Stourbridge MPD, and a replacement water tank from Henley in Arden, the latter arriving in August 1970. These were installed during the following year – until they were commissioned locomotives were watered at Eardington where possible, or otherwise from a simple hosepipe connected to a nearby tap at Bridgnorth.
In October 1972, the platform water columns from Henley were obtained with a view to replace those previously obtained from Stourbridge. During winter maintenance shut down in January 2020 [[Cowans Sheldon 30-ton steam crane RS 1087]] lifted the constituent parts of the Platform 2 water column to deal with an internal leak and to replace a bearing at its base.
In 1980 Severn Trent Water re-connected the local water supply to a bore hole which supplied water with a very high level of dissolved salts. The water softening plant was unable to cope with this, resulting in boilers scaling and locomotives 'priming' within 3 days of a washout<ref>SVR News 57</ref>. The following year, to resolve the issue, the SVR laid a water main to Bridgnorth from [[Knowlesands Tunnel | Knowlesands]], the nearest source of softer water<Ref Name = SVRNews60”>SVR News 60</ref>.
===Weighbridge===
All locomotives must be weighed before first use on the SVR to ensure they comply with axle weight limits. Individual wheels are also weighed to check for correct weight distribution after replacement of springs.<br>Locomotives are driven A locomotive is moved slowly over two a section of strain gauges on the gauged track adjacent to platform 1 at Bridgnorth with the results displayed on a screen in the signal box.<gallerymode=packed heights=200px style="text-align:left">
File:Weighbridge.jpg | Weighbridge adjacent to Platform 1
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==Exhibitions==
*From 16 June 2012 an exhibition was mounted for the Victorian weekend and following station festival in Platform 2 waiting room, with a history of the station.<ref>[https://forum.svr-online.org.uk/viewtopic.php?t=1098 SVR Forum]</ref>
*On 24 June 2018 a [[Catch Me Who Can]] sculpture was unveiled as a part of the Bridgnorth Art Trail. The sculpture was one of twelve positioned around the town. They were aluminium castings that represent the locomotive in a much simplified form and were used as the ground for competition winning individual artists and groups to decorate. Statue 2: 'Just the Ticket' was positioned outside Bridgnorth station booking office and was designed by Tania Holland of [https://www.taniaholland.co.uk/ Tania Holland Gallery] using archive material provided by the SVR. It was also sponsored by the SVR.<ref>[https://bridgnorth-art-trail.org.uk/statue-2-just-the-ticket/ Bridgnorth Arts Trail] (Retrieved 10 July 2019)</ref>
*From 16 to 30 August 2019 [http://www.kathrynoconnorphotography.co.uk/ Kathryn O’Connor], a black and white photographic documentary artist, ran an exhibition in the then-new Bridgnorth Refreshment Room as part of the Bridgnorth Music & Arts Festival. It comprised a selection of individual people then working in Bridgnorth, in as many diverse workplaces as possible, and short work history questionnaires they had completed.<ref>SVR website</ref>
===Postmark===
[[File:Bradley Manor stamp postmark.jpg|thumb|150px|right|Bridgnorth postmark]]
In 2004 a Bridgnorth postmark was used in conjunction with Royal Mail's Classic Locomotives stamp issue, which featured the SVR's [[GWR 7802 Bradley Manor | Bradley Manor]].
==Bridgnorth history before preservation==
[[File:Bridgnorth 1849 poster.jpg | thumb|200px|right | Poster for a goods conveyancing service to Wolverhampton in 1849]]
[[File:GWR Bridgnorth advert 1956.jpg | thumb|200px|right | Advert for GWR passenger and parcels service to Shifnal station in 1856]]
[[File:Bridgnorth pre 1887.jpeg | thumb|200px|right | Bridgnorth Station from Pan Pudding Hill before the footbridge was built in 1887]]
[[File:Bridgnorth Station 1901291 3efa8154.jpg | thumb|200px|right | Bridgnorth under threat of closure in 1962 (Wikimedia Commons)]]
[[File:Bridgnorth Station plan 1929.jpg | thumb|200px|right | Floor plan of station building in 1929]]
*1849 A goods conveyancing service by road to Wolverhampton Railway Station is advertised by a local carrier in partnership with the Grand Junction Railway. *1856 A passenger and parcels service by road to Shifnal Railway Station is advertised by the GWR. *1862 Bridgnorth has a population of 6569<ref>[[Bibliography | Handbook to the Severn Valley Railway, J. Randall, 1863]]</ref> (Population; 11891 12,079 in 20012011 census)<ref>[https://www.shropshireons.gov.uk/facts-and-figureshelp/population/2001-census-population/ 2001 censuslocalstatistics "Bridgnorth (Parish): Key Figures for 2011 Census". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics](Retrieved 23 November 2015)</ref>
*1862: When the original Severn Valley Railway opened, Bridgnorth Station is the principal intermediate station and crossing point between Hartlebury and Shrewsbury. The station building is made of stone in a Jacobean architectural style.
*1904: A [[Bridgnorth steam bus service | steam bus service]] to [[Wolverhampton]] commences.
*1922: Knowle Sand [[Knowlesands Sidings | Knowlesands Brick Works siding openssidings]] open, with [[List_of_signal_boxes#List_of_historical_Signal_Boxes_and_Ground_Frames | ground frames]] at either end of the loop, capable of accommodating 35 standard wagons plus engine and brake van. *1922: [[SVR staff in 1922#Severn Valley Railway (Kidderminster to Bridgnorth)|GWR staff records for 1922]] show the station had a staff of 19.
*1956: [[Railcar 22|GWR Diesel Railcar W10W]] was burnt out in a fire while standing at Platform 1.
File:Bridgnorth-Last-Train-1963-09-08.jpg| 11) GWR Panniers 9624 and 4665 prepare to depart Bridgnorth with the last BR train on 8 September 1963 ([[Sellick Collection]])
File:PGH RailcarBridgnorth.jpg|12) Former GWR Railcar W26W arrives on a down service, whilst the waiting up service takes water. Note the military lookout/radio station on Pan Pudding Hill. (PG Hindley)
File:5101 4114 at Bridgnorth.jpg|13) GWR Small Prairie 4114 ready to depart towards Shrewsbury on 25 July 1959File:Bridgnorth Bridge Shropshire Star 1967.jpg|14) Demolition of the railway bridge in 1967
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== See also ==
*[[List of stations]]<br>*[[Bridgnorth MPD]]<br>*[[Bridgnorth Loco Works]]<br>*[[Bridgnorth Turntable]]<br>*[[GWR Bus Garage (Ex Bridgnorth)]]<br>*[[:Category:Rolling stock at Bridgnorth | List of Rolling stock at Bridgnorth]]*[[Shropshire Historic Environment Record]]
==References==
