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[[File:Hartlebury_Railway_Station_-_geograph.org.uk_-_883215.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Hartlebury station in 2009]]
[[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==
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>
The goods yard closed on 1 February 1965,<ref>Mitchell & Smith, 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>
== 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 Station signal box was a McKenzie and Holland Type 2 box, built in 1876 and originally having 21 levers. 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==
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