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[[File:Northwood Halt - geograph.org.uk - 741287.jpg|thumb|px200300px|right| Northwood Halt viewed from the level crossing]]
{| class="wikitable"|+Next stations|-! Up (towards [[Kidderminster]]) !! Down (towards [[Bridgnorth]])|-| [[Bewdley]] || [[Arley]] |- |}Northwood Halt is a request stop located between [[Bewdley]] and [[Arley]], immediately adjacent to [[Level crossing at Hill Farm, Northwood Lane | the level crossing at Hill Farm, Northwood Lane]]. The platform is on the East side of the railway with a small pagoda shelter and a view across the River Severn to the Wyre Forest. Access to the platform is via a short footpath from the adjacent level crossing. The level crossing is protected by warning lights triggered by approaching trains. There is no car parking nearby.
==Northwood Halt before preservation==The platform is halt was opened by the GWR on 17 June 1935<ref>[[Bibliography#Books | Marshall (1979) p. 95.]]</ref>, one of a number of mid-War halts added by the East side of Company in an attempt to increase local traffic. It provided access to the railway many riverside [[Wooden Shacks | wooden shacks]] and caravan sites, and was popular with a small pagoda shelter day trippers from Birmingham and the Black Country visiting the picnic and a view across fishing spots along the nearby [[River Severn to the Wyre Forest]]. Access to the The halt comprised a short sleeper-faced platform is via , surfaced partly with tarmac and partly with ash. It included a small corrugated iron booking office and a simple wooden hut as a short footpath from the level crossingshelter. <ref name = "SVR28">SVR News 28</ref> There is was no car parking nearbypassing loop or signalling.
==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/northwood51.htm Friends of Kidderminster Station web site] (Retrieved 17 July 2019)</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. In August 2019 it received repairs to the platform edge, sections of fencing along with a full repaint and grass trimming<ref>Bewdley Station Facebook 13 August 2019</ref>.
===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's War website, 15 October 2004] (Retrieved 4 August 2018)</ref> In September 2002 it became Baxter College.
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File:Northwood plaque.jpg|National Railway Heritage Awards, The G.N.E.R. Volunteers Award, Northwood Halt Pagoda Shelter, 2007
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The present-day “Northwood Halt” name board was erected in August 2008, replacing the 1970s board which had become life-expired.<ref>Bewdley Station Website</ref>
== See Also also ==
[[List of stations]]
==References==
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== Links ==
[http://www.bewdleystation.co.uk/Northwood.html Northwood Halt on the Bewdley Station web site]<br>[http://www.kfriends.org.uk/projects/northwood.htm Northwood Halt Pagoda on the Friends of Kidderminster Town web site]<br>[http://youtu.be/YPVNsVMOp7s Northwood Halt, as seen from a passing train which stops briefly, hauled by 92214 - a SharposWorld video]
