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*1963: Through passenger services ceased on 9 September, with through freight services ending at the end of November.
{| class="wikitable |+ Early Station Masters at Highley prior to 1939|-!Name!!Born !! From !! To !! Comments|-|Samuel Mantle Edwards||1831|| August 1863|| April 1864||Joined West Midland Railway January 1852. Resigned April 1864.|-|Thomas Randle||1838 Nuneaton, Warwickshire||July 1864||July 1866||Formerly employed by the West Midland Railway. Railway Clerk at Stourport, 1863. Died 1909.|-|John Evans||1838/9? Church Stretton, Shropshire||July 1866||June 1870||Previously employed by the Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway from 1855?.|-|William Farmer||14 June 1846 Hartlebury, Worcestershire||June 1870||August 1871||Previously employed by the West Midlands Railway and GWR as a Booking Clerk at Hartlebury. Resigned September 1900. Died 14 March 1937.|-|G Watts|| ? ||August 1871|| January 1873 |||-|J Wilkinson|| ? ||13 January 1873||December 1875||Resigned December 1875|-|Isaac Batts||14 August 1850 South Leigh, Oxfordshire||9 May 1878||November 1882||Previously Switchman at Hartlebury. Resigned 1 October 1910.|-|William Henry Cole||17/2/1855 Northfield, Worcestershire||13 November 1882||December 1913||Previously employed as a Porter and Switchman at Kidderminster, and as a Booking Porter and Station Inspector at Highley. Died 4 February 1932|-|William Thomas Gingell||25/3/1861 Rodmarton, Gloucestershire||1915||>1919||Previously Station Master at Cleobury Mortimer. Died 22 August 1949.|-|} <!--{| class="wikitable"
|+ GWR Traffic statistics for Highley, selected years prior to 1939<ref>[[Bibliography#Books|Nabarro (1971)]] p. 54.</ref>
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|1938||style="text-align:right"|21,335||style="text-align:right"|6,584||style="text-align:right"|1,606||style="text-align:right"|154,202||style="text-align:right"|23,128||style="text-align:right"|24,734
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==Historic maps of Highley Station and mine==
