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[[File:Northwood Halt - geograph.org.uk - 741287.jpg|thumb|200px300px|right| Northwood Halt viewed from the level crossing]]

{| class="wikitable"|+Next stations|-! Up (towards [[Kidderminster]]) !! Down (towards [[File:NorthwoodBridgnorth]])|-1961-07-29.jpg| [[Bewdley]] |thumb|200px[[Arley]] |right- | A DMU calls at }Northwood Halt in July 1961 (is a request stop located between [[Bewdley]] and [[Sellick CollectionArley]]), 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.

Passengers wishing to alight at Northwood Halt is should inform the train guard before departure. Those wishing to join a request stop located between [[Bewdley]] and [[Arley]]train at Northwood Halt should signal the driver of the approaching train by holding out an extended arm, immediately adjacent allowing sufficient time for the train to [[Level crossing at Hill Farm, Northwood Lane | stop. As there is no lighting on the level crossing at Hill Farmplatform, Northwood Lane]]trains will only stop during daylight hours.

==Northwood Halt before preservation==The halt was originally opened by the GWR in on 17 June 1935<ref>[[Bibliography#Books | Marshall (1979) p. 95.]]</ref>, and closed with the withdrawal one of passenger services north a number of Bewdley mid-War halts added by the Company in 1963an attempt to increase local traffic. It reopened with the SVR extension provided access to Bewdley in 1974. In 2006 the halt's many riverside [[Wooden Shacks | wooden shelter shacks]] and caravan sites, and was replaced popular with an award-winning GWR-style corrugated iron 'pagoda' shelter. This was constructed by day trippers from Birmingham and the Black Country visiting the picnic and fishing spots along the "nearby [[Friends of Kidderminster Town StationRiver Severn]]" . The halt comprised a short sleeper-faced platform, surfaced partly with tarmac and transported to Northwood by railpartly with ash. Northwood Halt did not have It included a small corrugated iron booking office and a simple wooden hut as a 'pagoda' in GWR days, although [[Foley Park Halt]] didshelter.<ref name = "SVR28">SVR News 28</ref> There was no passing loop or signalling.

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<gallery>File:Northwood-1961-07-29.jpg | A DMU calls at Northwood Halt in July 1961 ([[Sellick Collection]])</gallery>

Passengers wishing The Halt remained in use until closure of that section of the line to alight at 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 should inform #Harry_Cheshire_High_School_Railway_Society|Harry Cheshire High School Railway Society]] visited the train guard before departurehalt 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. Those wishing In early 1974, sleepers were obtained from [[Eardington Bank]] following relaying there, and used to join 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 train at Northwood Halt should signal GWR-style corrugated iron 'pagoda' shelter. This was constructed by the driver [[Friends of the approaching train Kidderminster Town Station]] using corrugated sheets supplied by holding out an extended armJoseph Ash Ltd, allowing sufficient time for a company that had supplied corrugated iron buildings to the train GWR a hundred years previously<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20190923041105/http://www.kfriends.org.uk/ Friends of Kidderminster Station magazine, August 2005, via web archive] (Retrieved 21 November 2021)</ref>, and transported to stopNorthwood by rail. Northwood Halt did not have a 'pagoda' in GWR days, although [[Foley Park Halt]] did. As there is no lighting on 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 platformedge, trains will only stop during daylight hourssections of fencing along with a full repaint and grass trimming<ref>Bewdley Station Facebook 13 August 2019</ref>.

*1935: Northwood Halt was ===Harry Cheshire High School Railway Society===The Harry Cheshire County Secondary School opened by the GWR in June 1935September 1940, later becoming Harry Cheshire High School. A simple wooden hut was provided as a shelter<ref>[http://www. There was no passing loop or signallingbbc. *1963: The Halt remained in use until closure of that section of the line to passengers in 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 19632002 it became Baxter College.

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