Goods traffic on the SVR

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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.

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

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

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

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

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

Sixty truck loads of cattle and sheep from Kidderminster market in 1903

An average of 2000 homing pigeons a day during one week in 1901 being sent to Kidderminster.

"The general waiting room [at Bewdley in 1901] was usually crowded with luggage and parcels..."

See also

• Businesses located at SVR stations
• Private sidings connected to the Severn Valley Railway
• Collieries served by the Severn Valley Railway
• Station Truck