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[[File: Foley_Park_OS.jpg |thumb|300px|right| Extract from 1951 OS Map showing the Foley Park area]]
'''Foley Park sidings''', located 1 mile 179 yards from [[Kidderminster Junction signal box|Kidderminster Junction]], were built in 1925 to serve the British Sugar Corporation factory at [[Foley Park]]. The sidings also provided a rail connection for the private sidings of [[Thomas Vale & Sons]] and [[Smethwick Drop Forgings Ltd. Siding|Smethwick Drop Forgings]]. They were located near [[Foley Park Halt]], which was moved from the south side of the line to the north side 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.
A set of sidings, located 1 mile 179 yards from ==Operations and shunting locomotives==[[Kidderminster Junction signal boxFile:S0839_AB2248_1967_David_Cooke.jpg|thumb|300ps|right|Kidderminster JunctionB.S.C. No.3 at Foley Park circa 1967 (David Cooke)]], serving Access to the British Sugar Corporation and Smethwick Drop Forgings, built in 1925sidings from Kidderminster was by means of a ground frame. They were located near See [[Ground Frames at Foley Park Halt]]. During the sugar beet season, which was moved normally ran from the South side of the line mid-September to mid-January, up to the North when the sidings openedfour trains per day would arrive at Kidderminster. The sidings remained in use after the closure of Shunting from Kidderminster to the Foley Park factory required a shunting engine from [[KidderminsterShed]]-to be available 24 hours per day.<ref>[[BewdleyBibliography#Books|Turley (2005)]] line on 6 January 1970p. 72-77.</ref> The BSC factory employed three Andrew Barclay 0-4-0ST shunting locomotives<ref name=miac>[http://www.miac.org.uk/sugar.html Railways in Worcestershire]</ref>:*B.S.C. No.1, works no 1843/1925*B.S.C. No.2, finally closing on 25 October 1982works no 1931/1927*B.S.C. No.3, works no 2248/1948
During All three were at Foley Park from new, with No. 3 arriving as part of a goods train on 1 May 1948.<ref>[[Bibliography#Books|Turley (2005)]] p. 76.</ref>. No. 2 was later transferred to the Wissington sugar beet seasonfactory at Kings Lynn, which normally ran from mid-September to mid-Norfolk in 1962. Steam working ended in January1969, up with No. 1 being sold for scrap in June 1969 and No 3 also being transferred to four trains per day would arrive Wissington at Kidderminsterthe same time. No 2. is now preserved at "Rocks By Rail" and Shunting from Kidderminster to No 3. is now preserved at the Foley Park factory required a shunting engine to be available 24 hours per dayPlym Valley Railway.<refgroup="note">The Railway Several websites including the Plym Valley and "[https://preservedbritishsteamlocomotives.com/andrew-barclay-works-no-2248-albert-0-4-0st-2/ Preserved British Locomotives]" refer to 2248 as being based at Kidderminster in BSC's "''Worcester & Somerset plants''". Worcester presumably refers to Worcestershire, ie Foley Park; the reason for the 1940s, AJ Turleyreference to Somerset is unclear.</ref>.
Access to the sidings from Kidderminster was by means of a ground frameThe factory later employed two diesel shunters<ref name=miac/>:*0-4-0DE R&H works no. See 408866/1959 (arrived 1961, scrapped October 1983)*[[Ground Frames at Foley ParkRuston and Hornsby 165hp Diesel Shunter D2960|0-4-0DM R&H 281269/1950]].(arrived January 1969, preserved on the SVR September 1983)
==Preservation==
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. The private sidings for Thomas Vale & Sons extends towards the bottom of the map
 
<gallery>
File:GWRplanFoleyPark.jpg | Northern part of GWR plan
File:GWRplanFoleyPark2.jpg | Southern part of GWR plan
File:FoleyPark1927map.jpg | 1927
File: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]]
 
==Notes==
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== References ==
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* "Severn Valley Railway". Railways in Worcestershire article. [http://www.miac.org.uk/severnvalleyline.html Link]. Accessed 09/01/2015.
==Links==* "Severn Valley Railway"[https://www. Railways in Worcestershire articlerocks-by-rail. org/exhibit/ab-1931/ Rocks by Rail: AB 1931 page]*[httphttps://www.miacplymrail.orgco.uk/severnvalleyline.html Linklocomotives Plym Valley Railway: Locomotives page including AB 2238 "Albert"]. Accessed 09/01/2015.
* "Severn Valley Railway". Railways in Worcestershire article. [http://www.miac.org.uk/severnvalleyline.html Link]. Accessed 09/01/2015.
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