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[[File:HartleburyRailcar.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Railcar W22W at Hartlebury in 1959]]
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Hartlebury station remains in use in modern times, 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 [[Wyre 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. The original smaller goods yard and cattle dock was south of the 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>
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File:OS_Hartlebury_Detailed_1901.JPG|Layout of Hartlebury station in 1901
File:Hartlebury Plan 1905.png|1905 GWR plan of the station
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== Severn Valley Line ==
The line for the Severn Valley Railway left the OWW line at [[Hartlebury Junction]] which was situated 27 chains north of the station. The line between Hartlebury and Through passenger traffic to [[BewdleyShrewsbury]] remained open after the closure of the line ended on 9 September 1963, although passenger services between Bewdley Hartlebury and [[ShrewsburyBewdley]] in 1963, with passenger services finally ending in continued until 5 January 1970. The line as far as [[Stourport]] remained open for coal trains serving [[Stourport Power Station]] until coal trains ceased in March 1979,<ref>[[Bibliography#Books | Mitchell & Smith (2007)]]</ref> the line itself finally being taken out of use on 12 January 1981.<ref>[[Bibliography#Books | Vanns]] p. 94.</ref>
== Signalling ==
[[File:Hartlebury Signalbox.jpg |thumb|200px|right|Hartlebury Station Signalbox in 1985]]
Hartlebury originally had one signal box to the south of the station on the Down side of the line controlling the station and junction.<br>
In 1876 this was replaced by a McKenzie and Holland <noglossary>Type 2 box</noglossary> on the Up side of the line, having 21 levers and working to Droitwich on the [[Absolute Block | block system]], plus a second box to the north of the station controlling the junction. The later 1910 30-lever frame was replaced by a panel on 29 November 1982.<ref>Mitchell & Smith, Western Main Lines, 26</ref>
==See also==
== References ==
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==Links==
[http://ojp.nationalrail.co.uk/service/ldbboard/dep/HBY Network Rail live departure board]
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