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The goods yard consisted of the 'Top Yard' between Comberton Road and the [[Kidderminster Footbridge]] (the area now mainly occupied by the SVR station) and the 'Bottom Yard' beyond the Footbridge, now mainly occupied by the SVR’s [[Diesel Depot]] and [[Kidderminster Carriage Shed]]<ref name=Turley>[[Bibliography#Books|Turley (2005)]] p. 13.</ref>.
The yard's main goods shed now serves as the SVR's [[Carriage Repair Works]]. [[Kidderminster Railway Museum]] occupies a smaller warehouse built by the GWR in 1878 for grain and wool storage. The LMS, which had running rights in the area, had a depot known as a 'goods receiving office’ which w was a short way from the station near the bottom of Comberton Hill<ref>Worcester to Birmingham, Mitchell and Smith, 2007, fig. 34.</ref>.
The yard handled general goods traffic from the Severn Valley and Tenbury branches and elsewhere. By the mid-20th century the main local industries served were Carpets (jute from Dundee arriving, finished products leaving) and Sugar (beet, limestone and coal arriving, refined sugar and molasses leaving)<ref name=Turley/>.
