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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> | 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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| + | Sixty truck loads of cattle and sheep from Kidderminster market in 1903<ref>[https://postimg.cc/GB22LcDh Worcestershire Chronicle - Saturday 28 November 1903]</ref> | ||
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| + | An average of 2000 homing pigeons a day during one week in 1901 being sent to Kidderminster.<ref>[https://postimg.cc/56CKrvkf Swindon Advertiser and North Wilts Chronicle - Friday 31 May 1901]</ref> | ||
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| + | "The general waiting room <nowiki>[at Bewdley in 1901]</nowiki> was usually crowded with luggage and parcels..."<ref>[https://postimg.cc/TKWyg2w7 Worcestershire Chronicle - Saturday 01 December 1900]</ref> | ||
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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]
Sixty truck loads of cattle and sheep from Kidderminster market in 1903[7]
An average of 2000 homing pigeons a day during one week in 1901 being sent to Kidderminster.[8]
"The general waiting room [at Bewdley in 1901] was usually crowded with luggage and parcels..."[9]
See also
- Businesses located at SVR stations
- Private sidings connected to the Severn Valley Railway
- Collieries served by the Severn Valley Railway
- Station Truck
References
- ↑ Worcestershire Chronicle - Saturday 15 December 1888
- ↑ Herapath's Railway Journal - Saturday 12 July 1884
- ↑ Herapath's Railway Journal - Saturday 05 March 1870
- ↑ Worcester Journal - Saturday 31 May 1884
- ↑ Rugby Advertiser - Saturday 26 August 1899
- ↑ Worcestershire Chronicle - Wednesday 09 November 1864
- ↑ Worcestershire Chronicle - Saturday 28 November 1903
- ↑ Swindon Advertiser and North Wilts Chronicle - Friday 31 May 1901
- ↑ Worcestershire Chronicle - Saturday 01 December 1900
