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{| class=" wikitable floatright"|-|[[File:BSicon_exCONTglocal.png|25px]] 1912 proposed extensions<br/>[[File:BSicon DSTlocal.png|25px]] RNAD Ditton Priors<br/>[[File:BSicon_HSTlocal.png|25px]] Ditton Priors<br/>[[File:BSicon_ABZrflocal.png|25px]] Abdon Clee Quarry Railway<br>[[File:BSicon_HSTlocal.png|25px]] Burwarton<br/>[[File:BSicon_eABZg+llocal.png|25px]] Proposed Kinlet & Billingsley extn.<br/>[[File:BSicon_HSTlocal.png|25px]] Stottesdon<br/>[[File:BSicon_HSTlocal.png|25px]] Cleobury Town and Shed<br/>[[File:BSicon_ABZrglocal.png|25px]] [[Tenbury Branch]] to [[Bewdley]]<br/>[[File:BSicon BHFlocal.png|25px]] Cleobury Mortimer<br>[[File:BSicon_STRlocal.png|25px]] [[Tenbury Branch]] to Tenbury<br/>|-|}The '''Cleobury Mortimer and Ditton Priors Light Railway ''' (CM&DPLR) opened in 1908. It connected with the [[Wyre Forest Line | Tenbury and Bewdley Railway]] at [[Wyre Forest Line#Cleobury Mortimer | Cleobury Mortimer]]. From there the line ran northwards for 12&frac12; miles via Cleobury Town, Stottesdon and Burwarton to Ditton Priors. It became part of the Great Western Railway in 1922.

==Rolling stockConstruction==At opening The CM&DPLR was built under the Railway had two Manning Wardle 0-6-0 saddle tanks, numbers 1734 Burwarton and 1735 CleoburyLight Railways Act of 1896. The railway An order under the Act was absorbed into the GWR granted in May 1922, following which the locomotives were re-numbered as GWR 28 and 29; they were later rebuilt as pannier tanks at Swindon 1901 with construction eventually beginning late in 19301906. They remained as the regular engines on the line, although other small GWR tank engines would appear on the line from time to time. During operation they were kept at a small [[Shed and Depot Codes|shed at Cleobury Town]],<ref name=BarfieldPrice>[[Bibliography#Other References|Barfield Price (19941995)]] pp. 817-8911.</ref> but A goods service began on 19 July 1908, initially using the contractor's locos as the Railway's own locomotives were recorded as being at [[Kidderminster Shed]] between 1940 and 1945not delivered until August.<refname=Beddoes>[[Bibliography#Books|Turley Beddoes & Smith (20051995)]] p. 11765.</ref>. 28 was placed into store at Kidderminster in 1949. 29The line opened for passenger traffic on 21 November 1908, which acquired although for the nickname "first six months the Gadget", line speed was fitted with limited to 20mph rather than the 25mph permitted as a spark arrester cowl in case working to light railway while the Admiralty Depot at Ditton Priors track bed was required, and was then retained at Kidderminster for occasional shunting turns, her former duties having been taken over by GWR 2021 class locomotivesallowed to consolidate<ref name=BarfieldPrice/>. The original coaching stock comprised four ex-North London Railway four-wheel coaches, later replaced by standard GWR vehicles.<ref>Burton, Anthony and Scott-Morgan, John,'The Light Railways of Britain and Ireland', Moorland Press, 1985</ref>  A Planet diesel locomotive is believed to have been used but its dates of arrival and departure are not known. Later, three 'flameproof' 165hp [[Whyte notation|0-4-0]] diesel locomotives were supplied to RNAD Ditton Priors by Ruston and Hornsby of Lincoln between 1952 and 1955.<ref>[https://chasewaterstuff.wordpress.com/2010/11/06/some-early-lines-cleobury-mortimer-and-ditton-priors-light-railway/ Some Early Lines – Cleobury Mortimer and Ditton Priors Light Railway, 6 November 2010 (a blog)] (Retrieved 18 September 2018)</ref>

Ultimately the First World War brought an end to these plans and none of the schemes went ahead<ref>[[Bibliography#Other References|Price (1995)]] pp.39-40.</ref>

Passenger numbers were never great and declined steadily after the First World War. The railway became part of the Great Western Railway on 1 January 1922 as part of the grouping under the Railway Act of 1921.<ref>[[Bibliography#Other References|Price (1995)]] p.59.</ref> As early as the 1920s some stations had effectively become request stops, and by the 1930s traffic had reduced to two ‘mixed’ trains per day. Passenger services ceased altogether in September 1938. However in 1941 the Royal Navy opened a Royal Naval Armaments Depot (RNAD) at the end of line at RNAD Ditton Priors, close to Brown Clee Hill. The line therefore remained open for both freight and military traffic, and locomotives using the line were fitted with spark arrestors.