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===Unsuccessful proposals===
Proposals for a railway connecting Worcester to the Ironbridge Gorge via Bewdley and Bridgnorth were made in 1845 by the grandly named '''Oxford and Worcester Extension & Chester Junction Railway'''. The line was planned as an extension to the proposed [[Oxford Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway]] ("OW&W") and would have been built to the GWR's broad gauge. The plans were rejected by Parliament and by November 1846 the company had been voluntarily wound up.<ref>[[Bibliography#Books|Vanns (1998)]] pp. 7,9.</ref>
Proposals for the '''Worcester, Shrewsbury and Crewe Union Railway''' were advertised in April 1845. The 67 mile route was described as "''Forming a junction at Stourport with the London, Worcester and South Staffordshire railway, the proposed railway will pass up the valley of the Severn and through or in the immediate neighbourhood of Bewdley, Kidderminster, Bridgnorth, Much Wenlock, Madeley, Ironbridge, Coalbrookdale to Shrewsbury, and thence near Market Drayton, Audlem, and Nantwich, will terminate at Crewe, by a junction with the Manchester ad Birmingham, and Grand Junction Railways''."<ref>Herapath’s Journal and Railway Magazine, 26 April, 1845. Also Morning Chronicle, 18 April 1845</ref>
Plans for a railway between Shrewsbury and Worcester via the Severn Valley were also drawn up by the '''[[Shropshire Union Railways and Canal Company]]''' between 1845 and 1846, although these too never came to fruition.
