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The GWR’s use of Station Trucks had begun as early as the 1860s, and was still in use in BR days as noted below. The [[Timetable: Severn Valley Branch 1876|1876 service timetable]] (before the opening of the [[Kidderminster Loop Line]]) refers to station trucks operating between Worcester and Shreswbury Shrewsbury and others handling goods for the [[Tenbury Branch]]. Between around 1910 and the mid-1920s station truck workings were included in the rear pages of service timetables; thereafter separate books were produced which listed all station trucks and the trains involved in their haulage.<ref name = “Atkins”Atkins>GWR Goods Services, an Introduction[[Bibliography#Other References|Atkins, Atkins & Hyde, (2000)]].</ref>
The article notes that the Severn Valley’s station truck originated from Hockley. The GWR’s goods operation were organised into around 14 regions (the number varied over time). Geographically, the Birmingham region included the southern end of the Severn Valley Line from [[Hartlebury]] to [[Eardington]], as well as Kidderminster, while Bridgnorth to Shrewsbury fell within the Shrewsbury region. The former region appears to have been allocated responsibility for the Station Truck serving the whole Severn Valley line. Another goods region was centred on [[Worcester]].<ref name = “Atkins” Atkins />
The station truck label from February 1935, as depicted in the article, shows that the departure from Hartlebury was at 9.30am. The [[Timetable: Severn Valley Line 1948 | BR(W) 1948 working timetable]] still included a 9.30am freight departure from Hartlebury. This was certainly a slow goods, as it did not reach [[Coton Hill Yard | Shrewsbury Coton Hill yard]] until 6.58pm. The stop at [[Cressage]] has a note in the timetable ‘To deal with Cattle traffic and perform S.T. work only’, the S.T. referring to 'Station Truck'.
Another station truck, No 752, served the [[Tenbury Branch]]. Under the system in use in 1914, this was taken from Stourbridge Goods Depot down to Amblecote Goods yard at 6.45am, returning at 8.15am to be attached to the 9.10 Class F Goods departure from Stourbridge Junction to Hereford via Kidderminster, [[Bewdley]] and [[Tenbury Wells]].<ref>[[Bibliography#Other References|Butcher (2004)]] p. 97.</ref>
Although Station Trucks provided a useful service, the weight they carried formed only a fraction of total freight, less than 0.5% in this summary of the total loading of wagons from the Birmingham district for the 4 weeks ended 14 April 1929: <ref name = “Atkins” Atkins />
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