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[[File:OS_Map_Coalport_SidingOS_Map_Coalport_South.JPG jpg |thumb|300px|right| OS Map of Coalport, pub. 1903]]
The '''Coalport Brick & Tile Works ''' was situated south of [[Coalport | Coalport Station]]. The works and its siding can be seen on the lower right in the extract from the Ordnance Survey map published in 1903. Coalport station is towards the upper left. Entry to the siding was controlled by Coalport signal box (marked 'S.B.' on the map extract) which also controlled access to the adjacent Coalport passing loop.
==History of the Works==
During both World Wars, the Works was requisitioned for munitions purposes. Coalport Refractories continued to use the private siding until 1956<ref>[[Bibliography#Books | Mitchell & Smith (2007)]] fig. XVI.</ref>. The Works had closed by 1963<ref>[http://shropshirehistory.com/industry/brickworks.htm ShropshireHistory.Com] (retrieved 14 May 2018)</ref> and by 1981 the historic buildings had been demolished and replaced by a Sewage Reclamation Works<ref>[http://search.shropshirehistory.org.uk/collections/getrecord/CCS_MSA3924/ Shropshire Historic Environment Record for Coalport Brick And Tile Works] (retrieved 14 May 2018)</ref>.
==Tarbatch Dingle==
The works and siding stand above a deep cutting through which the Severn Valley Branch ran. In 1861 a [[Railway Navvies of the SVR|navvy suffered an accident]] while working in the cutting. The contemporary newspaper report identified the location as "Tarbet's Dingle", an archaic spelling of Tarbatch Dingle which can be seen at the south end of the cutting on the OS map.
==See also==
*[[Private sidings connected to the Severn Valley Railway]]
*[[Maps#Schematic maps of the pre-closure SVR | Pre-1963 map]]
==References==
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