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[[File:HartleburyRailcar.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Railcar W22W at Hartlebury in 1959]] {| class="wikitable"{| class="wikitable"|+Next stations pre-closure|-! Towards the south !! Towards [[Shrewsbury]]|-| The Severn Valley Line ended at Hartlebury, joining<br>the former OW&W line south towards Worcester.||[[Stourport]] (3 miles)|- |} Hartlebury is a village in Worcestershire, approximately 3 miles South south of [[Kidderminster]]. It has a The railway station on , which is located 138 miles 68 chains from London Paddington, opened in 1852 as part of the former [[Oxford Worcester and WolverhamptonRailway]] route opened . In 1862 it became a junction station as the southernmost station on the Severn Valley Railway, although in practice many Severn Valley services began and ended at Worcester. Hartlebury station remains in use in 1852modern times, which now sees with regular services between [[Worcester]] and stations to Birmingham and beyond. ==Hartlebury Station==[[File:Hartlebury_Railway_Station_-_geograph.org.uk_-_883215.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Hartlebury station in 2009]]The OW&W line through Hartlebury opened on 3 May 1852. Hartlebury station had only minimal facilities with a simple wooden shed. This was still the case when Hartlebury became a junction station on 1 February 1862 with the opening of the Severn Valley Railway. Construction of a new station more appropriate to its new status was authorised on 6 April 1865.<ref>[[Bibliography#Books | Marshall (1989)]] p. 87.</ref> Between 1862 and the opening of the [[Kidderminster Loop Line]] in 1878, goods traffic from the Severn Valley branch and the [[BirminghamWyre Forest Line | Tenbury & Bewdley Railway]]bound for Kidderminster and the West Midlands needed to travel to Hartlebury, reversing onto the OW&W line there. The 1901 revision of the OS Map, published in 1903, shows the layout of the station at the time. It The original smaller goods yard and cattle dock was formerly south of the Southern terminus station.<ref>Western Main Lines, Worcester to Birmingham via Kidderminster, Mitchell and Smith (2007), ISBN 9781904474975, VIII</ref> The turntable in the larger goods yard north of the station was in place until 1925.<ref>Mitchell & Smith, Western Main Lines, 27</ref> The footbridge has two flights of steps on each platform.<ref>Mitchell & Smith, Western Main Lines, 23</ref> Although the OS Map refers to the station as Hartlebury Junction, the station itself was never give this name, always appearing in [[The Severn Valley Railway under GWR/BR ownership#Timetable extracts | timetables]] as 'Hartlebury'. [[SVR staff in 1922#Severn Valley Railway(South of Bewdley)|GWR staff records for 1922]] show the station had a staff of 24. Cattle pens, and sidings to cope with additional fruit traffic were constructed in 1924.<ref>Great Western Railway Magazine, January 1924</ref><ref>Great Western Railway Magazine, February 1924</ref> It was announced that the yard crane was to be replaced by a standard 6-ton hand crane in 1927<ref>Great Western Railway Magazine, January 1927</ref> The goods yard closed on 1 February 1965,<ref>Mitchell & Smith, Western Main Lines, 25</ref> while the footbridge and platform canopies were also removed during the 1960s.<ref>Wikipedia</ref> The station buildings had been closed by 1994 and the waiting room replaced by a simple ‘bus shelter’.<ref>[[Bibliography#Books | Siviter (1995)]] p. 84.</ref> <gallery>File:OS_Hartlebury_Detailed_1901.JPG|Layout of Hartlebury station in 1901File:Hartlebury Plan 1905.png|1905 GWR plan of the station</gallery>

== Signalling ==[[File:Hartlebury Signalbox.jpg |thumb|200px|right|Hartlebury Station Signalbox in 1985]]Hartlebury was originally had one signal box to the junction for south of the station on the Severn Valley line, with Down side of the line for [[Stourport]] and [[Bewdley]] being situated just North of controlling the stationand junction. The line between Hartlebury <br>In 1876 this was replaced by a McKenzie and Bewdley remained after Holland <noglossary>Type 2 box</noglossary> on the closure Up side of the line towards , having 21 levers and working to Droitwich on the [[ShrewsburyAbsolute Block | block system]] in 1963, with passenger services finally ending in January 1970plus a second box to the north of the station controlling the junction. The line to [[Stourport]] remained open until 1979 for coal trains serving [[Stourport Power Station]] later 1910 30-lever frame was replaced by a panel on 29 November 1982.<ref>Mitchell & Smith, Western Main Lines, 26</ref>  ==See also==[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hartlebury_railway_station Wikipedia [Maps#Schematic_maps_of_the_pre-closure_SVR | Pre- Hartlebury railway station1963 map]].