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==Highley history before preservation==
[[File:Highley-3601-1959-10-07.jpg|thumb|300px|right|Ex-GWR Pannier 3601 calls at Highley in October 1959 ([[Sellick Collection]])]]
*1862: Highley station opened with the rest of the Severn Valley Line on 1 February, with only one platform and no facility for crossing trains. At the time the population of Highley village was only 407<ref>Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales, John Marius Wilson, 1870-72</ref>.
*1869: The GWR approved the installation of a cattle dock.
For the next month, Highley was the southern terminus of the SVR while repair work to the [[Underbridge on Station Road, Highley | underbridge]] south of the station was completed. In Mid-May 1974, through services to Arley and Bewdley began.
==Platform extension==
Highley only has a short platform. In winter 1974-75, at the end of the first year of reopening, volunteers extended the southern end of the platform by around 30 feet using platform edge coping stones and diagonal blue brick pattern surface slabs recovered from the former GWR station at Halesowen.<ref>SVR News 34</ref> The platform now stretches all the way to the Barrow crossing, which is accessed by a ramp behind the footbridge. The original layout, with a shorter platform and a ramp in front of the old footbridge, can be clearly seen in this photograph.
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File:Highley old bridge.jpg|Station and original footbridge pre-preservation
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===Visitor Centre===
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== See also ==
==References==
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*[[Bibliography | Marshall (1989), pp. 99-100.]]
*[[Bibliography | Vanns (1998), p. 62.]]
==Links==
*[http://www.highleystation.co.uk/ Highley Station web site]
*[http://www.sharpos-world.co.uk/cpg/thumbnails.php?album=317 Sharpo's World photos at Highley, showing station buildings, signalbox etc. before the Engine House was built]
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