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"The timber obtained from <nowiki>[the Wyre Forest]</nowiki> is used for the most part in collieries in South Staffordshire".<ref>[https://postimg.cc/18KMffSF Worcester Journal - Saturday 31 May 1884]</ref>
 
"The timber obtained from <nowiki>[the Wyre Forest]</nowiki> is used for the most part in collieries in South Staffordshire".<ref>[https://postimg.cc/18KMffSF Worcester Journal - Saturday 31 May 1884]</ref>
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Seven trucks of long oak timber from Bewdley to Griff Colliery, Nuneaton, August 22 1899.<ref>[https://postimg.cc/Fdh9nw20 Rugby Advertiser - Saturday 26 August 1899]</ref>
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A luggage train "of considerable length" carrying sacks of bran, iron fencing and copper sheets through Tenbury on its way to Bewdley in 1864.<ref>[https://postimg.cc/mcK3JDzH Worcestershire Chronicle - Wednesday 09 November 1864]</ref>
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==See also==
 
==See also==

Revision as of 08:28, 12 June 2022

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This article is an attempt to piece together information on the quantity and variety of goods carried on the SVRSevern Valley Railway during GWRGreat Western Railway and BRBritish Rail or British Railways days.

November 10 1888, 6:30pm goods train from Tenbury due at Bewdley at 8:32 consisted of 25 loaded and three empty wagons plus a brake van with two guards.[1]

Invitation to tender for construction of a canal basin and goods warehouse at Stourport, July 8 1884.[2]

New siding, lines &c. to be built at Bewdley, Cressage, Highley and Hartlebury in 1870.[3]

"The timber obtained from [the Wyre Forest] is used for the most part in collieries in South Staffordshire".[4]

Seven trucks of long oak timber from Bewdley to Griff Colliery, Nuneaton, August 22 1899.[5]

A luggage train "of considerable length" carrying sacks of bran, iron fencing and copper sheets through Tenbury on its way to Bewdley in 1864.[6]



See also

References

  1. Worcestershire Chronicle - Saturday 15 December 1888
  2. Herapath's Railway Journal - Saturday 12 July 1884
  3. Herapath's Railway Journal - Saturday 05 March 1870
  4. Worcester Journal - Saturday 31 May 1884
  5. Rugby Advertiser - Saturday 26 August 1899
  6. Worcestershire Chronicle - Wednesday 09 November 1864

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