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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>
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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>[https://web.archive.org/web/20190923041105/http://www.kfriends.org.uk/magazine/northwood%202.htm Friends of Kidderminster Station magazine, August 2005, via web sitearchive](Retrieved 21 November 2021)</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 [[Awards|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>. 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> ===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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== See 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]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20190923041105/http://www.kfriends.org.uk/ Northwood Halt Pagoda on the Friends of Kidderminster Town web site, via web archive]
*[http://youtu.be/YPVNsVMOp7s Northwood Halt, as seen from a passing train which stops briefly, hauled by 92214 - a SharposWorld video]
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