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Unsuccessful proposals for railways in the Severn Valley

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===Worcester and Cardiff Junction Railway===

Proposed in '''1843''', the main branch would begin at the Taff Vale Railway near Cardiff and pass through Leominster, [[Wyre Forest Line#Easton Court|Little Hereford]] and [[Wyre Forest Line#Tenbury Wells|Tenbury]]. A branch was to run from [[Wyre Forest Line#Newnham Bridge|Newnham]] to Stourport.<ref>The Railway Times for 1843, Vol 6, p. 1092.</ref> A meeting was held in September 1844 at which it was resolved to ask the Company "...''to bring a branch line from Tenbury to Cleobury Mortimer, Bewdley and Kidderminster''.".<ref>Worcester Herald, 21 September 1844, via the British Newspaper Archive</ref>

===London, Worcester and South Staffordshire Railway===

Originally proposed in '''March 1844''' as the ''London and Worcester and Rugby and Oxford Railway Company'', renamed the London, Worcester and South Staffordshire Railway in February 1845. The proposed 'standard gauge' route from Oxford and Aylesbury in the south ran to Wolverhampton via Banbury, Evesham, Worcester, Stourport, Kidderminster, Stourbridge and Dudley, and was shown on a map of the proposed route of the OWW which covered much of the same ground. The Bill did not pass through Parliament and winding up was completed by October 1846<ref>[https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C12626 National Archives]</ref><ref>[https://postlmg.cc/R6DY2YFX Map of the proposed OWW held in the National Archives]</ref>.

===Hereford and Kidderminster Railway===

===Birmingham, Kidderminster and Stoke Railway===

Proposed around 1888-9, this would have provided a loop line to relieve the busy GWR main line and the Lickey Incline (the Stoke referred to is near Bromsgrove). A Bill went to Parliament in 1890 but failed under opposition from the GWR<ref>[https://www.flickr.com/photos/tarkaman/9380075176 Ian Dinmore on Flickr]</ref>.

===Wolverhampton, Birmingham, and Hereford and South Wales Junction Railway.===

Proposed in 1891, the main railway would have run from Wolverhampton (Monmore Green) to Hereford, passing through Kinver, Kidderminster, Stourport and Areley Kings. The Birmingham branch would run from Kidderminster to Harborne via Halesowen.<ref>[https://postimg.cc/xcD9PBP1 Railway News, 23 May 1891, via the British Newspaper Archive]</ref>

===Birmingham, Kidderminster and Stourport Railway===