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'''Hampton Loade ''' station is a minor country station located between [[Bridgnorth]] and [[Highley]], located close to the [[River Severn]]. On opening, the station had only a single platform and a siding, with a second platform and signal box being added in 1880s.<div class="toclimit-2">__TOC__</div>

Hampton Loade The station has two platforms house is built of yellow brick. Unlike some of the other station houses including Highley and a [[Hampton Loade signal box|signal box]]Arley, allowing trains travelling in opposite directions to pass. However this was not upgraded during the crossing loop is GWR era by the shortest on extension of the railway, only able to hold a loco waiting room and 8 full-length coaches. During periods provision of lighter traffic, when [[Hampton Loade signal box]] is switched out, all trains use platform 1, adjacent to the station housean extra bedroom.

During the early years of SVR operation (early 1970s) Hampton Loade formed Other than 'sympathetic restoration', the southern terminus. Evidence of this remains station has changed little in appearance since preservation, although the form of the presence of the down starting signal ladies' toilet on platform 2, which is normally only used for up trainsone was demolished and replaced by a larger structure in the early 1970s<ref name=SVR32>SVR News 32</ref>.

The station house is built of yellow brick. Unlike some of ==Hampton Loade in preservation==During the other station houses including Highley and Arley, this was not upgraded during the GWR era by the extension early years of SVR operation (1970 to 1974) Hampton Loade formed the waiting room and provision of an extra bedroomsouthern terminus. In late 2014 the railway announced that Trains were initially operated as 'one engine in steam'; the station house had become vacant, plans were in hand for it to be converted signal box was commissioned and signalling brought into SVR volunteers' accommodation,use after the last train on Saturday 19 May 1973.<ref>SVR(H) notice board issue NBI-H-194 "October-December 2014 Round Up", published on [https://www.svrlive.com/ SVRLive].News 28</ref> subject to final agreements and costings between [[Severn Valley Railway (Holdings) PLC]] and [[Hampton Loade Station Fund]]Evidence of the station's terminus function remains in the form of the presence of the down starting signal on platform 2, which is normally only used for up trains. This would provide a more suitable facility than Following the [[GWR 2426 Toplight Full Third2007 Storm Damage]] which had been stabled at Hampton Loade since 1988 the station again acted as the limit of trains from Bridnorth for that purposea short period in 2008. 2426 continued in use until mid-2016 and It was briefly succeeded by later the terminus of [[GWR 55 Riding/Dormitory Van|GWR Riding Van 55The Eardington Explorer]]trains.

====Operations====Hampton Loade station has two platforms and a [[Hampton Loade signal box|signal box]], allowing trains travelling in opposite directions to pass. In addition there is a south facing siding with a bay goods platform adjacent to platform 2. The crossing loop is the shortest on the railway, only able to hold a loco and 8 full-length coaches, with special arrangements to allow longer trains to pass. In normal operation Down trains (to Bridgnorth) use platform 1, adjacent to the station house, while Up trains (to Kidderminster) use platform 2. There are signals for Down trains (to Bridgnorth) to depart from either platform. However there are only signals for Down trains to arrive in the Down platform 1. In addition, there is no Facing Point Lock on the siding point, so that must be manually "clipped" before a Bridgnorth train can use the Up platform 2. Similarly, you can only clear the signal to route an Up (Kidderminster) train through the Down platform 1 by switching the box out, and there is no Up starting signal on the Down line in Platform 1.  During periods of lighter traffic, when [[Hampton Loade signal box]] is switched out, all trains use platform 1 with movements controlled by the signal boxes at [[Highley signal box|Highley]] and [[Bridgnorth signal box|Bridgnorth]] using long section tokens under [[Single line working using tokens|ETT regulations]].  ====Facilities====The station has a small kiosk (originally a Wyman's bookstall from Snow Hill station)<ref name=SVR32/> serving snacks and hot and cold drinks. This is located adjacent to the waiting room on Platform 2. The [[Hampton Loade Station Fund Shop]] and the [[The Barry Railway Carriage Trust Sales Van | Barry Railway Carriage Trust sales van]] are both situated in the bay platform. There is a small picnic area next to the station.

Although the village was also historically known as Hampton's Loade<ref>[http://www.gutenberg.org/files/17612/17612-h/17612-h.htm Handbook to the Severn Valley Railway, by J. Randall 1863]</ref>, the station was originally called '''Hampton at ''', with that name appearing in the [[Timetable: Shrewsbury to Worcester 1862| opening, but timetable]]. However within a month it had adopted the name Hampton Loade which it has retained ever since<ref name = MarshallP101">[[Bibliography | Marshall (1989), p101]]</ref>.<br> 

|+ [[The Severn Valley Railway under GWR/BR ownership#Traffic statistics|GWR Traffic statisticsin commercial service]] for Hampton Loade, selected years prior 1903 to 1939<ref>[[Bibliography#Books|Nabarro (1971)]] p. 54.</ref>1952

==Points The first description of interest==‘Station Master’ in GWR records is in 1897. John Williams (booking constable, 1863) and Henry Powell (Booking Porter 1866-1887) may have supervised the station, the censuses of 1871 and 1881 describing the latter as Station Master.

{| class="wikitable |-!Name!!Born !! data-sort-type="date" | From !! data-sort-type="date" | To !! Comments|-| John Williams || 1831 Lampeter Velfrey, Pembrokeshire || data-sort-value=Passenger Foot Ferry"1/8/1863" | August 1863 || data-sort-value="1/7/1866" | July 1866 || Booking Constable.|-| Henry Powell || 7 October 1836 Ombersley, Worcestershire || data-sort-value="1/7/1866" | July 1866 || data-sort-value="1/1/1887" | January 1887 || Booking Porter. Previously employed at [[Hartlebury]], later as Booking Porter at [[Eardington]], and at [[Highley]]. |-|William Sherwood||15 November 1846 Bidford, Warwickshire|| data-sort-value="1/1/1887" | January 1887||data-sort-value=The station "1/10/1904" | October 1904||Booking Porter, Station Inspector (January 1890) and Station Master (November 1897). 1891 census describes Sherwood as ‘Station Master”. Previously employed at Hartlebury and Eardington on the nearby Unicorn Inn are actually situated in branch, amongst other stations. From January to May 1899 ‘stould in’ for W G Cleeton as station master at [[Berrington]]. Resigned 1904, the hamlet of Hampton1911 census records Sherwood as “Invalided Retired Station Master”.|-| Alfred Stanley || 21 December 1855 Blockley, Worcestershire || data-sort-value="1/1/1907" | From 1907 || data-sort-value="14/2/1918" | 14 February 1918 || Signalman from 1904. The village of |-| Joseph Thomas Hill || 5 April 1877 Kinver, Staffordshire || data-sort-value="1/4/1918" | April 1918 || data-sort-value="1/9/1922" | September 1922 || Previously employed at [[Bewdley]], Hampton Loade is and [[Bridgnorth]] on the branch, amongst other bank of the river (Loade comes from the Saxon word 'lode' meaning ford)stations. There is now no ford or bridge, but in modern times a passenger foot ferry operated in summer monthsMoved to become station master at [[Arley]]. However, the ferry has not operated since 2013|-| Joseph Bousher || 7 April 1875 Kintbury, Berkshire || data-sort-value="1/9/1922" | September 1922 || data-sort-value="1/11/1924" | November 1924 || Previously employed at Ironbridge and it is not known if or when it will return to operationBewdley.<gallery>|-File:Ferry_20090525| Frederick Ralph Stratford Richards || 19 December 1882 Minchinhampton || data-sort-value="1/11/1924" | November 1924 || data-sort-value="1/4/1926" | April 1926 || Subsequently station master at Hartlebury.jpg | Hampton Loade ferry-<| Frederick William Peachey || 29 March 1891 Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire || data-sort-value="1/1/gallery>1946" | 1946 || data-sort-value="11/10/1946" | 11 October 1946 || Deceased. Previously employed at Stourport, then station master at Highley and Ironbridge.|-|}

====Paddock Garden Railway====The [[Paddock Garden Railway]], a 32mm gauge model railway, is situated adjacent to From 1930 looked after by the stationStation Master at Highley. This may be open on Sundays and Bank HolidaysIn 1939 the signalman was residing in Hampton Loade Station House.<gallery>File:Garden_Railway_20090504From 1 April 1951 Hampton Loade was supervised by Bridgnorth.jpg | The Paddock Garden Railway</gallery>

==Historic maps of Hampton Loade Station==Barry Railway Carriage 163 ====Hampton Loade is the base for [[Barry Railway Carriage Trust]] who are restoring [[Barry Railway Carriage 163]].

====Filming at Hampton Loade====*Early GWR plan showing the original single line and sidingHampton Loade was used *Later GWR plan showing the 1883 loop and second platform as a flming location for amendments in red. *1884 map (surveyed 1882) showing the film [[The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain]] single line and siding.*1903 map showing the loop and second platform and repositioned siding*1926 map showing little change over the BBC TV drama [[The Incredible Robert Baldick]]previous twenty years.

<gallery mode=packed heights=150px style=="text-align:left">File:GWRplanHamptonLoade early.jpgFile:GWRplanHamptonLoade.jpgFile:Hampton Loade derailment====Load 1884 map.jpg | 1884On 28 September 2009, a [[Accidents|derailment]] occurred when the tender of [[LMS Ivatt Class 4 43106]] hauling a down passenger train became derailed as it approached [[File:Hampton Loade]]1903 map. There were no injuries. The immediate cause of the accident was the leading right-hand wheel of the tender flange climbing over the rail at the site of a track twist. An incorrect spring had been fitted to this axle of the tender.<ref>[httpsjpg | 1903File://wwwHampton Loade 1926 map.gov.uk/raib-reports/derailment-on-severn-valley-railway Rail Accident Investigation Branch] (retrieved 6 January 2017)jpg | 1926</refgallery>

 <gallerymode=packed heights=200px style="text-align:left">File:Hampton-Loade-Railcar-1959-10-07.jpg|An ex-GWR diesel railcar on a Northbound service in October 1959 ([[Sellick Collection]])

*[[Variant spellings of SVR station names]]*[[List of stations]]<br>*[[Accidents]]<br>*[[List of film and TV productions filmed on the Severn Valley Railway]]*[[Shropshire Historic Environment Record]]

*[http://www.sharpos-world.co.uk/cpg/thumbnails.php?album=17 Sharpos-World photos at Hampton Loade, showing station buildings, signalbox etc.]<references />