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[[File: Foley_Park_OSFoley_Park_Halt.jpg |thumb|300px|right| The platform at Foley Park Halt]][[File: Foley_Park_Halt_2_Michael_Clemens.jpg |thumb|300px|right| Extract from 1951 OS Map showing Foley Park Haltseen from the Stourport Road Bridge]] '''Foley Park Halt ''' was located situated on the [[Kidderminster Loop Line|loop line]] between [[Kidderminster]] and [[Bewdley]] and . It opened on 2 in January 1905and remained in use until the end of passenger services in January 1970. It  The Halt was located next to [[Stourport Road Bridge]]; originally situated on the South south side of the line but later moved to the North north side when [[Foley Park sidings]] were opened in 1925. The extract from Ordnance Survey Map SO87below, surveyed 1938 - 1949, published 1951, shows the later location. <gallery mode=packed heights=200px style="text-align:left">Foley_Park_OS.jpg | Extract from 1951 OS Map showing Foley Park Halt</gallery> From its opening in 1898, the [[Kidderminster and Stourport Electric Tramway]] competed for the GWR's passenger traffic, especially as it provided a direct connection between Kidderminster and Stourport while the journey by rail required a change at [[Bewdley]] or [[Hartlebury]]. By 1901 authorisation had been given to extend the tramway from Kidderminster to Bewdley which would have further increased this competition. These were among the factors that led the GWR to introduce a [[GWR Steam Railmotor|steam railmotor service]] on 5 January 1905 in a bid to improve local services. The GWR opened Foley Park Halt, next to the [[Stourport Road Bridge]], at the same time the railmotor service began.<ref>Marshall p. 143.</ref><ref>[[Bibliography#Other Publications | Voice (2017)]] p. 7.</ref>.

* Original GWR plan showing the halt to the north of the line.* 1905 GWR schematic plan of Foley Park Haltin its original location.

* [https://web.archive.org/web/20200930185410/http://www.rcts.org.uk/features/mysteryphotos/show.htm?page=1&serial=20&img=Y-72-19 A DMU at Foley Park Halt., Courtney Haydon Collection (Y-72-19), via Wayback Machine Internet Archive]* [https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=740076727635111&set=gm.9461424327204840&idorvanity=1730959503584733 Image of Foley Park in May 1969 posted by Graham Larkbey on 23 January 2023] * [https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1789865878123262&set=gm.25222973940623292&idorvanity=1730959503584733 The wooden platform at Foley Park is badly damaged but the pagoda shelter still survives on 18 September 1976. Posted by Tony Higgs on 5 December 2023]