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Wilden Sand Siding

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==Sand Quarry siding==
A large sand quarry was situated north of the cutting between the Wilden Lane Underbridge and Wilden Top Road Overbridge. Access to the cutting was controlled by a ground frame at the western end, locked by the section token. The siding could be accessed either by Down trains or by trains being propelled from Stourport.<ref name="SA1960">Birmingham Traffic District Sectional Appendix 1960</ref> The extract below from the OS map of 1927, surveyed in 1925, shows the size and extent of the siding which measured around 600ft in length. The date when the siding was commissioned is not recorded, although it does not appear on the previous OS map published in 1902. After the quarry closed, the siding was used to store coal wagons waiting to enter [[Stourport Power Station]]<ref>[[Bibliography#Books|Marshall (1989)]] p. 87.</ref>.
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OS_Wilden_1927.jpg|1927 OS Map showing Wilden Sand Siding

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