[[File: Foley_Park_OS.jpg |thumb|300px|right| Extract from 1951 OS Map showing the Foley Park area]]
A set of sidings, located 1 mile 179 yards from [[Kidderminster Junction signal box|Kidderminster Junction]], serving the British Sugar Corporation and Smethwick Drop Forgings, built in 1925. They were located near [[Foley Park Halt]], which was moved from the South side of the line to the North when the sidings opened. The sidings remained in use after the closure of the [[Kidderminster]]-[[Bewdley]] line on 6 January 1970, finally closing on 25 October 1982.
It is thought that During the sugar beet season, which normally ran from mid-September to mid-January, up to four trains per day would arrive at Kidderminster. Shunting from Kidderminster to the Foley Park factory required a shunting engine to be available 24 hours per day<ref>The Railway at Kidderminster in the 1940s, AJ Turley.</ref>. Access to the sidings were accessed from Kidderminster was by means of a ground frame. See [[Ground Frames at Foley Park]]. In January 2016 the area was cleared of undergrowth to allow surveying on behalf of the [[Wagon Review Group]] for a potential new wagon storage facility to provide covered accommodation for the [[Goods Wagons|SVR's fleet of wagons]] along with a PW storage area and access for locomotives arriving by road. ==Historic maps of Foley Park sidings==*GWR plan of the northern part of Foley park sidings including Foley park Halt*GWR plan of the southern part of Foley park sidings including the sand sidings on the opposite side.*1927 map showing the sidings and beet sugar factory*1938 map showing the sidings and the expansion of the beet sugar factory <gallery>File:GWRplanFoleyPark.jpg | Northern part of GWR planFile:GWRplanFoleyPark2.jpg | Southern part of GWR planFile:FoleyPark1927map.jpg | 1927File:FoleyPark1938map.jpg | 1938</gallery>
== Photographs ==
* [http://www.rcts.org.uk/features/mysteryphotos/show.htm?page=1&serial=20&img=Y-72-19 A DMU at Foley Park Halt.] Comments on the link point out that the lack of traffic is likely due to sugar beet being a seasonal crop.
==See also==
*[[Private sidings connected to the Severn Valley Railway]]
*[[Maps#Schematic maps of the pre-closure SVR | Pre-1963 map]]
*[[List of signal boxes#List of historical Signal Boxes and Ground Frames | List of historical Signal Boxes and Ground Frames]]
== References ==
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* "Severn Valley Railway". Railways in Worcestershire article. [http://www.miac.org.uk/severnvalleyline.html Link]. Accessed 09/01/2015.
* "Severn Valley Railway". Railways in Worcestershire article. [http[Category://www.miac.org.uk/severnvalleyline.html LinkFeatured articles]]. Accessed 09/01/2015.
