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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'.
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>
