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Several coal merchants and other businesses had offices or depots at SVR stations. This list also includes goods agents and independently run refreshment rooms.<br> The dates refer to the earliest and latest known references.<br>

*Miss M. A. Allard, refreshment rooms. 1879. <ref name="littlebury1879">[http://specialcollections.le.ac.uk/digital/collection/p16445coll4/id/112368 Littlebury's Directory & Gazetteer of Worcester & District, 1879]</ref>*South Wales and Cannock Chase Coal and Coke Company Limited, Railway station. 1879. <ref name="littlebury1879"/>.

*[[Thomas Bantock]], Goods Agent. 1879. <ref name="littlebury1879"/>*William Boycott, coal merchant, Railway wharf. 1879. <ref name="littlebury1879"/>*Thomas William Thomson, coal merchant, agent for Bantock & Co., general carriers, Railway wharf. 1879. <ref name="littlebury1879"/>*John William Powell, coal merchant, Railway station. 1896. <ref name="Kellys1896"/> Also owned Private Owner wagons.

*Neri Wooldridge, coal and lime merchant, Wribbenhall; depot at Railway station. 1879. <ref name="littlebury1879"/>.

*Andrew Hatton, Refreshment Rooms. 1876 - 1879. <ref name="littlebury1879"/><ref name="PO1876">[http://specialcollections.le.ac.uk/digital/collection/p16445coll4/id/112384 Post Office Directory of Worcestershire 1876]</ref>*William Thomas Martin, refreshment rooms. 1892 - 1900. <ref name="Kellys1892">[http://specialcollections.le.ac.uk/digital/collection/p16445coll4/id/218282 Kelly's Directory of Worcestershire, 1892]</ref><ref name="Kellys1896"/><ref name="Kellys1900"/>*[[Thomas Bantock]], Goods Agent. 1870. <ref>[https://drive.google.com/file/d/196OUxXCx4mVcUTMzl6kRFKcsxJ4lSCaB/view Post Office Directory 1870 (Kidderminster Section)]</ref>*George Feror Green, moulding sand merchant, Railway yard. 1876 - 1879. <ref name="littlebury1879"/><ref name="PO1876"/>

*South Wales and Cannock Chase Coal and Coke Company Limited, Railway station (Benjamin Beach named as Agent 1879). 1876 - 1936. <ref name="littlebury1879"/><ref name="PO1876"/><ref name="Kellys1912"/><ref name="Bennetts1914"/><ref name="Kellys1916"/><ref name="Kellys1936"/><ref name="mid1948"/>*Henry Barrett, coal merchant, Railway station. 1892 - 1914. <ref name="Kellys1892"/><ref name="Kellys1896">[http://specialcollections.le.ac.uk/digital/collection/p16445coll4/id/8885 Kelly's Directory of Worcestershire, 1896]</ref><ref name="Kellys1900">[http://specialcollections.le.ac.uk/digital/collection/p16445coll4/id/278597 Kelly's Directory of Worcestershire, 1900]</ref><ref name="Bennetts1905"/><ref name="Kellys1912">[http://specialcollections.le.ac.uk/digital/collection/p16445coll4/id/64222 Kelly's Directory of Worcestershire, 1912]</ref><ref name="Bennetts1914"/><ref name="Kellys1921"/> Also owned Private Owner wagons<ref name="Shuttle1903"/>*George Bayley, coal merchant, Railway station. 1892 - 1921. <ref name="Kellys1892"/><ref name="Kellys1896"/><ref name="Kellys1900"/><ref name="Kellys1912"/><ref name="Kellys1916">[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1X51u_4qtyR6kDYWIdv_CRzHYGSjWydtM/view Kelly's Directory 1916 Kidderminster Section]</ref><ref name="Kellys1921">[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rcWHECZ0l1Kvjm0s3uMLMUV0_j5LMd2U/view Kelly's Directory 1921 Kidderminster Section]</ref>*Alfred Davis, coal merchant, Railway station. 1892 - 1948. <ref name="Kellys1892"/><ref name="Kellys1896"/><ref name="Kellys1900"/><ref name="Kellys1912"/><ref name="Bennetts1914"/><ref name="Kellys1916"/><ref name="Kellys1921"/><ref name="cope1933"/><ref name="Kellys1936"/><ref name="mid1948"/>Also owned Private Owner wagons<ref name="Shuttle1903">[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1q6Ru_VhQHC_z9xjRLwPs9lT093hP1buk/view?usp=sharing Kidderminster Shuttle Industrial Number 1903]</ref>*John &. Alfred Findon, coal merchant, Railway station yard. 1896 - 1905. <ref name="Kellys1896"/><ref name="Bennetts1905"/>*Thomas Tandy, coal merchant,Railway station yard. 1896 - 1900. <ref name="Kellys1896"/><ref name="Kellys1900"/>*Pearson & Co. coal merchant, Station yard. 1900 - 1948. <ref name="Kellys1900"/><ref name="Kellys1912"/><ref name="mid1948"/>*B. Pearson & Co., builders merchant, Station Yard. 1914 - 1936. <ref name="Bennetts1914"> [http://specialcollections.le.ac.uk/digital/collection/p16445coll4/id/339968 Bennett's Business Directory for Worcestershire, 1914]</ref><ref name="Kellys1936"/>*R. Woodward and Co., coal merchant, Station Wharf. 1905.<ref name="Bennetts1905">[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1m2_UEW5jLiB8nj4z7n1CJZePJIkxnbqN/view Bennetts's Business Directory for Worcestershire, Kidderminster section]</ref>*A. Findon, coal merchant, Station yard. 1905. <ref name="Bennetts1905"/>*Austin Brothers, coal merchants, Station yard. 1912 - 1948. <ref name="Kellys1912"/><ref name="cope1933"/><ref name="Kellys1936"/><ref name="mid1948">[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BH3sPghx0qvnwzGwgqIDoolVZiKnNblx/view Midland Counties of England Trade Directory 1948-49]</ref>*Albert E. baylee, isinglass importer, Station approach. 1912 - 1913. <ref name="Kellys1912"/><ref name="Bennetts1914"/>*Alfred Howell, coal merchant. 1912 - 1936. <ref name="Kellys1912"/><ref name="Kellys1936"/>*George Summers, coal merchant, Station yard. 1912. <ref name="Kellys1912"/>*W. C. Caswell, coal merchant, Station yard. 1933. <ref name="cope1933"/>*The Economic Coal Co, Station yard. 1933. <ref name="cope1933"/>*W. Field, sand merchant, Station yard. 1933. <ref name="cope1933"/>*William Bowen & Son, coal merchant, Station Drive. 1936. <ref name="Kellys1936"/>*A. E. Bayley, Brewer, Station approach. 1933 - 1936. <ref name="cope1933">[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MIfJIIudNRgqdbJwO_dA0K4E9kNSFFTn/view Cope's Directory & Buyers Guide for Worcestershire Kidderminster section]</ref><ref name="Kellys1936"/>*Samuel P. Hunt, goods agent. 1900. <ref name="Kellys1900"/>*Lunt Bros, coal merchant. Station drive. 1936 - 1948. <ref name="Kellys1936"/><ref name="mid1948"/>

*Kidderminster Industrial Co-operative Society Ltd. Station Drive. 1936. <ref name="Kellys1936"/>*W. H. Smith & Son, booksellers & news agents. 1900. <ref name="Kellys1900"/>*Wyman & Sons Limited, news agents, Railway station. 1912 - 1948. <ref name="Kellys1912"/><ref name="Kellys1916"/><ref name="Kellys1936">[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KKjFjKSzAa9_XQnL2HeRNwZ-QsaPkqvn/view Kelly's Directory 1936 Kidderminster Section]</ref><ref name="mid1948"/>.

*Thomas Whitefoot, refreshment rooms. 1868. Also at The Crown, and Royal Hotel. <ref>

*Browning & Wealey, refreshment rooms. 1880 - 1895. <ref name="Slaters1880>[http://specialcollections.le.ac.uk/digital/collection/p16445coll4/id/64244 Slater's Directory of N & S Wales etc., 1880.]</ref><ref name="Kellys1891">[http://specialcollections.le.ac.uk/digital/collection/p16445coll4/id/218282 Kelly's Directory of Shropshire, 1891]</ref><ref name="Kellys1895">[http://specialcollections.le.ac.uk/digital/collection/p16445coll4/id/8886 Kelly's Directory of Herefordshire & Shropshire, 1895]</ref>*William Grantham, refreshment rooms. 1913. <ref name="Kellys1913/>*South Wales and Cannock Chase Coal and Coke Company Limited (Joseph Harry Ritson named as agent), Railway Wharf. 1871 - 1913. <ref>[http://specialcollections.le.ac.uk/digital/collection/p16445coll4/id/218324 Cassey & Co.'s Directory of Shropshire, 1871]</ref><ref name="Kellys1891"/><ref name="Kellys1895"/><ref name="Kellys1913/>*Joseph Harry Ritson, corn, cake, seed, salt, manure, coal & lime merchant, Railway station. 1891 - 1895. <ref name="Kellys1891"/><ref name="Kellys1895"/>*George James Eveson, coal merchant, Railway station. 1891 - 1912. <ref name="Kellys1891"/><ref name="Kellys1895"/><ref name="Kellys1913>[http://specialcollections.le.ac.uk/digital/collection/p16445coll4/id/278547 Kelly's Directory of Shropshire, 1913]</ref>*Charles E. Pickering, agricultural implement agent, Railway station. 1913. <ref name="Kellys1913/>.

*Caswell & Bowden, coal merchant, Railway station. 1891. <ref name="Kellys1891"/>.

*Richard Johns, railway waggon builder and repairer, general wheelwright and implement maker, Station Hill, Kidderminster. 1879. <ref name="littlebury1879"/>.

The first accident insurance policies were developed in the mid-1800s to cover railway accidents and steam boiler explosions.<ref>A History of UK Insurance, Swiss Re, 2013</ref> Several Station Masters also acted as agents for insurance companies.*1879, Kidderminster Station Master, John Mayers, was listed as an agent for Imperial Union Accident Assurance Co. Ltd., London Assurance Corporation (Fire And Life) and Queen Insurance Company. <ref name="littlebury1879"/>*1879, Bewdley, 'The Station Master, Great Western Railway station', was listed as an agent for Imperial Union Accident Assurance Co. Ltd. <ref name="littlebury1879"/>*1879, Stourport, 'The Station Master, Great Western Railway station', was listed as an agent for Imperial Union Accident Assurance Co. Ltd. <ref name="littlebury1879"/>