Slack trains would also arrive from the LMS area via Great Bridge to Hartlebury from where they would reverse to Stourport, returning empty. The trains consisted of around 36 wagons with LMS brake vans at each end. These were normally worked by a [[Locomotives used on the Severn Valley Branch in commercial service#Goods locomotives |GWR 56xx 0-6-2T]], generally no. 6665 or 6684 from Stourbridge. In 1956 Kidderminster was allocated its own 56xx, no. 6679<ref name=Turley/>.
A brief glimpse of a diesel hauled coal train can be seen in the background at the end of this Media Archive for Central England film on the opening of Trimpley Waterworks in 1967. [https://www.macearchive.org/films/midlands-news-05051967-pumping-station-opened-trimpley www.macearchive.org]
==Daily goods train==
===Other consignment notes and way bills===
[[File*In 1889 a 14 lb parcel was sent from Stourport to Bootle Rectory.<gallery mode=packed heights=200px style="text-align:left">Stourport way bill 1889.jpg|thumb|300px|right|1889 way bill from Stourport</gallery> ==Goods offices==Before the SVR opened, the GWR had an office in High Street, Bridgnorth, where 'passengers, parcels &c.' could be booked through to 'most parts of the kingdom' by a horse drawn omnibus to meet the GWR train at Shiffnal Station. [https://postimg.cc/tsnSNzZk Image]<br>The LNWR had a goods office at Bridgnorth by 1871<ref>[https://specialcollections.le.ac.uk/digital/collection/p16445coll4/id/218324/ Cassey & Co.'s Directory of Shropshire, 1871]</ref>, and at Kidderminster and Stourport.<gallery mode=packed heights=200px style="text-align:left">File:Limekiln Chandlers Mart Lane - geograph.org.uk - 1052908.jpg | Former LNWR and SURCC depot at StourportFile:LNWR depot 2.jpg | LNWR depot at Kidderminster</gallery> ==Revenue-earning freight in preservation==Since preservation, the SVR has seen occasional revenue-earning freight services, including the following: *in 1889 On 9 October 2003 [[D3586]] hauled a 14 lb parcel load of roof trusses from Kidderminster to the [[Orchard Bungalow level crossing]]. The trusses for the bungalow were too large to pass under the bridge carrying the former [[Wyre Forest Line]] over Northwood Lane, but were just able to fit through [[Bewdley Tunnel]].<ref>SVR News 145</ref>*On 11 March 2005 the SVR's first steam-hauled revenue-earning freight involved [[5764|GWR 5764]], transporting an excavator from the yard at [[Eardington]] to [[Country Park Halt]] for the contractors Mowlem Construction who were rebuilding the nearby pedestrian/cycle-way bridge across the river.<ref>SVR News 150</ref> A number of other loads were also transported for the same project.*In May 2007, [[4566]] was sent used on another steam-hauled revenue earning freight charter, taking a load of pipes to Trimpley Reservoir for Severn Trent Water.<ref>SVR News 160</ref>*The winter 2014-15 project to replace corroded pipes bringing the [[Elan Valley Aqueduct]] under the railway at Trimpley required all the plant, equipment and materials to be delivered via the Railway from Stourport to Bootle RectoryBewdley. The SVR provided the use of [[Ruston and Hornsby 165hp Diesel Shunter 319290|Ruston shunter D2957]] and crew.
==See also==
*[[Collieries served by the Severn Valley Railway]]
*[[Station Truck]]
*[[Country Lorry Service and Cartage Service]]
==Notes==
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