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==The restoration of Northwood Halt==
In summer 1972 a group from the [[Northwood Halt#Harry_Cheshire_High_School_Railway_Society|Harry Cheshire High School Railway Society ]] visited the halt and found it very overgrown and run down. They took on the renovation of the halt as a project and over the next two years helped with reinstating it. A new name board was built in the school workshop and erected at the halt in July 1973. In early 1974, sleepers were obtained from [[Eardington Bank]] following relaying there, and used to replace those missing from the platform face; much other renovation work was also carried out.<ref>SVR News 31</ref> A large slatted timber hut was installed to replace the original GWR hut.<ref>[[Bibliography#SVR Publications | SVR Souvenir Guide 9th Edition]]</ref>
The Halt reopened with the SVR extension to Bewdley in 1974. In 2006 the halt's wooden shelter was replaced with a GWR-style corrugated iron 'pagoda' shelter. This was constructed by the "[[Friends of Kidderminster Town Station]]" using corrugated sheets supplied by Joseph Ash Ltd, a company that had supplied corrugated iron buildings to the GWR a hundred years previously<ref>[http://www.kfriends.org.uk/magazine/northwood%202.htm Friends of Kidderminster Station web site]</ref>, and transported to Northwood by rail. Northwood Halt did not have a 'pagoda' in GWR days, although [[Foley Park Halt]] did. The halt with its new pagoda won the G.N.E.R. Volunteers Award in the 2007 National Railway Heritage Awards.
===Harry Cheshire High School Railway Society===
The Harry Cheshire County Secondary School opened in September 1940, later becoming Harry Cheshire High School.<ref>[http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/39/a8875939.shtml Robinson, K., 'First Pupils at Harry Cheshire School', BBC WW2 People'sWar s War website, 15 October 2004] (Retrieved 4 August 2018)</ref> In September 2002 it became Baxter College. The Harry Cheshire County Secondary School.
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