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==Stourport Station==
'''Stourport''' Station was located 3 miles from Hartlebury and 37¾ miles from [[Shrewsbury]]. It was considered one of the principal stations on the line, with two platforms and a passing loop from opening in 1862 as well as a small goods yard and goods shed. The station building was almost identical to those at [[Bewdley]] and [[Buildwas]]. The location of the station just a short way north of the town made it perhaps the most convenient of the Severn Valley Railway’s stations relative to the town it served.<ref>[[Bibliography#Books | Vanns (1998/2013)]] p. 75.</ref>
The line through Stourport ran east-west, the goods yard being situated south of the line. In 1885, additional sidings were installed north of the line connecting to a newly built basin on the [[Staffordshire & Worcestershire Canal]]. Around this time the GWR also built two new interlocked [[List of signal boxes#List of historical Signal Boxes and Ground Frames |signal boxes]] at each end of the station; these were named Stourport North and Stourport South, referring to the overall direction of travel rather than the geography of the station itself. From late 1887 the double line between the boxes was worked under [[Absolute Block | absolute block]] regulations.<ref>[[Bibliography#Books | Vanns (1998/2013)]] p. 77.</ref>
[[SVR staff in 1922#Severn Valley Railway (South of Bewdley)|GWR staff records for 1922]] show the station had a staff of 28.
In 1927 the GWR Engineering Department reported that "improvements are being made" at Stourport.<ref>Great Western Railway Magazine, January 1927</ref>
In 1930 it was announced that "A warehouse is to be constructed at Stourport station"<ref>Great Western Railway Magazine, January 1930</ref>
The Civil Parish of Stourport was renamed "'''Stourport-on-Severn'''" in 1934 (see 'The town of Stourport' below). Stourport station was similarly renamed in the same year.<ref>[[Bibliography#Books | Marshall (1989)]] p. 89.</ref><ref group="note">Marshall suggested the station might have been renamed to avoid confusion with nearby Stourbridge as there was no other Stourport station. The change of name of the Civil Parish was more likely the reason.</ref>
On 11 February 1937 the GWR General Manager authorised the plan for construction of a new 60ft x 24ft warehouse<ref group="note">Possibly the same warehouse referred to in the 1930 announcement?</ref> in the goods yard at a cost of £420. This was located at the west end of the yard (nearest the station buildings) at the end of a siding (labelled "C" on the 1938 map below). The Shropshire & , Worcestershire and Staffordshire Electric Power Co built a [[Stourport Power Station | power station]] at Stourport after the First World War. However a direct rail connection to the Severn Valley Railway was only opened in 1940, coal deliveries before then being mainly via the River Severn or the [[Staffordshire & Worcestershire Canal]]. Once opened, the rail connection remained until January 1981, prolonging the life of the southern end of the Severn Valley Railway.
The extract from Ordnance Survey Map SO87, surveyed 1938 - 1949, published 1951, shows the branch line between Stourport Power Station (bottom) and Stourport Station (marked ‘Sta’). The line continues northwards towards Burlish Halt (top).
A 1960 BR list of Loops and Refuge Sidings gives the capacities at Stourport as 29 wagons in the Up Relief Siding, 24 in the Crossing Loop, 38 in the Down Goods Loop, and 45 in the Down Park Loop.(All plus engine and brake van).<ref>Sectional Appendix to the Working Time Tables and Books of Rules and Regulations, Birmingham Traffic District, October 1960</ref>
{| class="wikitable
|Frederick Charles Buckingham||20 September 1876 Witney, Oxfordshire|| By 1924|| 1936?||Retired 1936? Died 8 June 1961.
|-
|WJB Banbury || ? || 1936? ||July 1942 || Started at Ilminster in 1896 as Booking Clerk. Previously Station Master at Moretonhampstead, Cleobury Mortimer and Bewdley. Retired 11 July 1942.<ref>Great Western Railway Magazine, August 1942 edition</ref>|-|}
{| class="wikitable"
|+ [[The Severn Valley Railway under GWR/BR ownership#Traffic statistics|GWR Traffic statisticsin commercial service]] for Stourport, selected years prior 1903 to 1939<ref>[[Bibliography#Books|Nabarro (1971)]] p. 54.</ref>1952
|-
! !! colspan="3" | Passenger Traffic !! colspan="2" | Freight Traffic !!
|-
|1938||style="text-align:right"|16,269||style="text-align:right"|36,566||style="text-align:right"|4,078||style="text-align:right"|130,922||style="text-align:right"|61,178||style="text-align:right"|65,256
|-
|1942||style="text-align:right"|29,167||style="text-align:right"|X||style="text-align:right"|11,316||style="text-align:right"|435,688||style="text-align:right"|X||style="text-align:right"|X
|-
|1947||style="text-align:right"|21,679||style="text-align:right"|36,781||style="text-align:right"|8,089||style="text-align:right"|435,419||style="text-align:right"|X||style="text-align:right"|X
|-
|1952||style="text-align:right"|13,007||style="text-align:right"|27,137||style="text-align:right"|6,729||style="text-align:right"|531,823||style="text-align:right"|X||style="text-align:right"|X
|-
|}
X: Data not recorded
==Closure==
* 1905 GWR schematic plan of Stourport giving siding capacities and other details.
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File:Stourport1885map.jpg | 1885
File:Stourport1902map.jpg | 1902
Historically the town of Stourport was in the chapelry of Mitton, which lay within Kidderminster Parish. '''Stourport Civil Parish''' was created in 1928 through the union of the Lower Mitton and Upper Mitton Civil Parishes, and was in turn renamed 'Stourport-on-Severn' in 1934.<ref>[https://www.worcesterbmsgh.co.uk/parish/stourport-on-severn.html Worcester Branch of the Birmingham and Midland Society for Genealogy and Heraldry]</ref>.
==Links==
[[Variant spellings of SVR station names]]
==Gallery==
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File:StourportStation1910.jpg | Stourport Station in 1910
File:Stourport signal box 1968.jpg | Stourport signal box in 1968
