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==Northwood Halt before preservation==
The 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 Company in an attempt to increase local traffic. It provided access to the many riverside [[Wooden shacks Shacks | wooden shacks]] and caravan sites, and was popular with day trippers from Birmingham and the Black Country visiting the picnic and fishing spots along the nearby [[River Severn]]. The halt comprised a short sleeper-faced platform, surfaced partly with tarmac and partly with ash. It included a small corrugated iron booking office and a simple wooden hut as a shelter.<ref name = "SVR28">SVR News 28</ref> There was no passing loop or signalling.
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The Halt remained in use until closure of that section of the line to passengers in September 1963. After closure the shelter and booking office were sold and moved to a nearby house, leaving just the name board and two metal lamp posts.<ref name = "SVR28" />
==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%202northwood51.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===
