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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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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/northwood51.htm Friends of Kidderminster Station magazine, August 2005, via web sitearchive] (Retrieved 17 July 201921 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===
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]<br>*[https://web.archive.org/web/20190923041105/http://www.kfriends.org.uk/projects/northwood.htm Northwood Halt Pagoda on the Friends of Kidderminster Town web site, via web archive]<br>*[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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