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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.

The Passengers wishing to alight at Northwood Halt should inform the train guard before departure. Those wishing to join a train at Northwood Halt reopened with should signal the driver of the approaching train by holding out an extended arm, allowing sufficient time for the SVR extension train to Bewdley in 1974stop. In 2006 As there is no lighting on the platform, trains will only stop during daylight hours. ==Northwood Halt before preservation==The halt's wooden shelter was replaced with an award-winning opened by the GWRon 17 June 1935<ref>[[Bibliography#Books | Marshall (1979) p. 95.]]</ref>, one of a number of mid-style corrugated iron 'pagoda' shelterWar halts added by the Company in an attempt to increase local traffic. This It provided access to the many riverside [[Wooden Shacks | wooden shacks]] and caravan sites, and was constructed by popular with day trippers from Birmingham and the Black Country visiting the picnic and fishing spots along the "nearby [[Friends of Kidderminster Town StationRiver Severn]]" using corrugated sheets supplied by Joseph Ash Ltd. The halt comprised a short sleeper-faced platform, surfaced partly with tarmac and partly with ash. It included a company that had supplied small corrugated iron buildings to the GWR booking office and a simple wooden hut as a hundred years previouslyshelter.<refname = "SVR28">[http:SVR News 28<//www.kfriends.org.uk/magazine/northwood%202ref> There was no passing loop or signalling.htm Friends of Kidderminster Station web site] </refgallery>, and transported to File:Northwood by rail-1961-07-29. jpg | A DMU calls at Northwood Halt did not have a 'pagoda' in GWR days, although July 1961 ([[Foley Park HaltSellick Collection]] did.)</gallery>

The platform is on Halt remained in use until closure of that section of the East side of line to passengers in September 1963. After closure the railway with a small pagoda shelter and a view across the River Severn booking office were sold and moved to the Wyre Forest. Access to the platform is via a short footpath from nearby house, leaving just the adjacent level crossing. The level crossing is protected by warning lights triggered by approaching trains. There is no car parking nearbyname board and two metal lamp posts.<ref name = "SVR28" />

Passengers wishing to alight at ==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 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 train guard before departureschool 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 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 join 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>. 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>

==Northwood Halt history before preservation=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.

File:Northwood-1961-07-29plaque.jpg | A DMU calls at National Railway Heritage Awards, The G.N.E.R. Volunteers Award, Northwood Halt in July 1961 ([[Sellick Collection]])Pagoda Shelter, 2007

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