Leapgate Private Sidings

OSOrdnance Survey Map Hartlebury to Stourport 1960

OSOrdnance Survey Map Wilden 1951, with Leagate Private Sidings south of the line on the right

The Leapgate Private Sidings were situated between Hartlebury and Stourport at 133m 36ch. They served a depot of the Regent Oil Company (named Texaco after 1967) which opened on 28 August 1939. The depot had no road connection.

The two sidings, one on each side of a gantry, would each hold up to 13 20-ton or 17 10-ton tank wagons. Access to the sidings was controlled by a 2-lever ground frame operating the points and a facing point lock, released by the electric token for the Hartlebury to Stourport section. UpIn reference to the direction of travel means towards the major terminus (i.e. towards Kidderminster on the present day SVR) to 30 wagons were propelled to the sidings from Stourport, led by a brake van.

See also

List of historical Signal Boxes and Ground Frames