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Perfect for all the family FROM THE WINDOW Renowned for it’s W I asked my 9 year ith stunning beauty, Arley old son what was his a ctiv Arboretum sits on favourite bit at Arley p ity the banks of the River Arboretum and he ages replied “ E v e r y t h i n g , c for Severn at Upper Arley it’s amazing”. hild ren! y Over 300 trees, the ﬁnest collection of Magnolias & Acers and Britain’s longest Laburnum Arch y Stunning Italian Garden, fountains & peacocks y Garden tea room serving hot and cold food and drinks y Kids activity trails, maze with castle Cut through the church grounds to to conquer in the middle, adventure Arley Arboretum play area & Gardens Just a 10 y Arley Kids Forestry Club, live shows minute walk om and seasonal events Arley Arley y Dogs welcome on a lead Church Station Arley Village Opening Times: Wednesdays to River Severn Sundays (Winter 10am to 4pm / Summer 10am to 5pm), bank holidays & the Worcestershire school holidays Arley Station Admission Prices Adults: £5.50, www.svr.co.uk Children: £2.50, Under 3’s: FREE arleyarboretum.co.uk

The Roger & Douglas Turner Charitable Trust. Registered Charity Number: 1154467. ARE YOU SITTING COMFORTABLY ? This Railway is home to one of Britain’s largest heritage carriage collections with over sixty working vehicles. The youngest is at least fifty years old and the oldest over one hundred.

Many of these carriages arrived here in terrible condition following years of retirement use as sheds, hen houses or even as restaurant annexes to hotels or public houses. Their loving restoration to original condition has been undertaken by enthusiastic people, often working out-doors and independently raising the necessary funds. Staggeringly, a single coach can cost up to £200,000 to restore. Your fares on our trains do not cover this cost. You may like to try your Opening times Summer - Mon to Sat 8.00am to 8.00pm - Sun 12.00noon to 8.00pm. hand at identifying the carriages that you are travelling in today either from the outside, Opening times Winter - Mon to Sat 8.00am to 6.30pm - Sun 12.00noon to 6.30pm. probably the easiest, or from where you are sitting now.

4th Edition of our original 1892 Guidebook on sale whilst stocks remain . EX - GREAT WESTERN: Usually, but not always, chocolate and cream in colour. Look out for the GWR monogram on Discounts for parties of 15 or more. the coach sides and the raised panelling and lining. Some of 6A, Castle Terrace, Bridgnorth, Shropshire, WV16 4AH Stations Tel: 01746 762052 these carriages have small ‘top light’ windows above the Office Tel and Fax: 01746 762124 main windows. These are our oldest vehicles. www.bridgnorthcliffrailway.co.uk

EX - LONDON MIDLAND & SCOTTISH: Built pre & post World War II, we uniquely have a complete working train of BRIDGNORTH TOWN EVENTS LMS carriages. Shorter in length than other members of the Bridgnorth Town Events brings community events all year round. fleet, they carry the functional railway maroon livery which looks particularly smart when freshly varnished. Circular Speciality Markets:- Spring, Summer windows are also a give-a-way on some of these carriages. & Autumn Easter Egg Hunt - Easter Sunday Bridgnorth Town Carnival - Late June EX - LONDON & NORTH EASTERN: Dating from the Teddy Bears’ Picnic - Late July mid-1930’s, we are proud to run Britain’s longest restored LNER Christmas Lighting Up Night - teak train. They are the only carriages on the line to have a Late November varnished teak-panelled exterior. Some of these vehicles are high-capacity sixty-four seaters, but also look out for other During your time in Bridgnorth why carriages with snug compartments and upholstered bench seating not visit the beautiful Castle Grounds, College House, St Leonard’s Close, Bridgnorth, Shropshire WV16 4EJ on one or both sides. the historic Town Hall and the Tel: 01746 762231 Northgate Museum. Email: [email protected] EX - BRITISH RAILWAYS: Developed after nationalisation in 1948, these new designs were based on the best design More information can be found on our website: www.bridgnorthtowncouncil.gov.uk practice of the pre-nationalisation railway companies. For further information on dates, times and locations of these events plus many more We have examples from the 1950s and 1960s, some in early organised events throughout the year, please visit carmine and cream livery known affectionately as ‘blood & www.bridgnorthtownevents.org custard’,and others in the later maroon. A FINAL THOUGHT ... When using our trains, please respect their painstaking and costly conservation; these carriages really are museum pieces. Severn Valley Railway, Official Site or Follow us @severnvalleyrailwayofficial Severn Valley Railway Families @svrofficialsite Please keep shoes and animals off the seats and do not allow children to stand on the tables or Severn Valley Railway, Number One, Comberton Place, Kidderminster, DY10 1QR Tel: 01562 757900 seats. Pushchairs and buggies should be carried in the guards van or where indicated by our staff. Designed and produced by Menzies Nunn Ltd MEMORIES , LIKE JOURNEYS , MAP TAKE TIME 7 .

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VISITOR CENTRE Make a stop for discovery! Home of our reserve collection of full-size steam engines, the exciting Engine House Visitor Centre at Highley takes you on a fascinating journey behind the scenes. Marvel at the massive locomatives, delve into the history of Britain’s railways, enjoy themed, interactive exhibitions. Including Gordon the blue engine!

In fact there’s so much to do, you may need to set some time aside to explore, grab a *For other ticket holders, admission bite to eat and rest awhile to enjoy stunning views of the Severn Valley as the charges apply. See svr.co.uk trains roll by. KIDDERMINSTER TOWN TO 1 RIFLE RANGE HALT

THE DEVIL’S SPITTLEFUL RIFLE RANGE HALT (site of) The sandstone outcrop, now almost hidden by pine trees, is Rifle Range Halt was only open from named after a legend claiming that the Devil dropped it here 1905 to 1920 and was mainly used by on his way to dam the river Severn. Yeomanry volunteers training on the adjacent heath during World War I. Traces of the range they used still exist nearby, although the Halt has now BEWDLEY TUNNEL disappeared completely. Make sure the window is shut! For if not, the carriage may fill with smoke and steam as Bewdley Tunnel is 480 yards long and the engine may be working hard.

FORMER KIDDERMINSTER SUGAR FACTORY Bewdley Tunnel One reason why Severn Valley THE CARRIAGE SHED services were not extended to The Severn Valley Railway’s Carriage Shed, which was Kidderminster until 1984 was that constructed during 1999/2000 with the aid of Heritage the sugar factory once had extensive Lottery Funding, is one of the largest buildings in railway sidings and provided the last Kidderminster. It can house up to 62 carriages from our traffic handled by British Rail over this historic collection. section of the line. This area is now being developed for THE DIESEL DEPOT light industry, housing and leisure use. Constructed in 2015, the Diesel Depot provides undercover storage and maintenance facilities to help preserve our fleet of heritage diesel locomotives, many of which are now over 50 years old. It includes Stourport Road two locomotive inspection pits, lifting jacks and STAFFORDSHIRE AND WORCESTERHIRE Bridge 10 tonne overhead travelling crane. We regret that CANAL this facility is NOT open to the public. James Brindley, England’s canal genius, built the Staffordshire and Worcestershire canal which was completed in 1770 and Foley Park Halt opened up an important link (Site of) between the Severn and the Black KIDDERMINSTER RAILWAY MUSEUM Country. It runs from Stourport on Falling Sands Adjacent to the station is a former Severn to Great Haywood Viaduct Great Western Railway warehouse, near Stafford. once used for storing wool and grain. It is 46 miles long and It is now Kidderminster Railway has 43 locks, one of Museum, which has a large collection of which can sometimes artifacts. Admission is free. be seen from the River Stour train.

KIDDERMINSTER TOWN STATION KIDDERMINSTER Worcester Road The southern terminus of the Bridge STATION SIGNAL BOX Severn Valley Railway seems to be Another seemingly ‘vintage’ a vintage structure, but it is a structure. Kidderminster Station Hoo Road relatively new building only Signal Box, was newly -built and Bridge opened in 1986. The concourse was commissioned in 1987. It houses canopy and the Restaurant were one of the largest signalling installations added in 2006. in use on a heritage railway in Britain. Kidderminster Town Station (SVR)

THE GOODS SHED Across the car park, the large brick building was The Wooden formerly a goods shed, built to handle the transshipment Bridge of Kidderminster’s main export - carpets. It was bought by the Severn Valley Railway in 1985 and is now the Kidderminster Station carriage workshops. CARPETS AND CANALS BEWDLEY TO 2 NORTHWOOD HALT

Northwood Halt THE WYRE FOREST This ancient and once-extensive forest, which dominates the high ground on the opposite side of the river, was heavily used in the making of charcoal up to about 100 years ago. The trees have grown back and now form a setting for many attractive woodland walks.

NORTHWOOD COTTAGE Northwood Cottage is one of several dwellings built alongside the line, originally for railway staff. It is now a private residence.

DOWLES BRIDGE (PIERS) At one time, a second line paralleled the present line north of Bewdley. An overgrown embankment can still be seen where it diverged, together with stone piers of the former Dowles Bridge which carried the rails across the Severn. The line then continued through the Wyre Forest, to Tenbury Wells and beyond.

GEORGIAN BEWDLEY Tenbury Line At the north end of Bewdley station, the train crosses Wribbenhall viaduct high above (Remains of) the rooftops. Look out for the old rope works, Thomas Telford’s river bridge of 1798, St. Anne’s Church in the middle of the main street, and the town’s Georgian waterfront which was seen all too frequently on television during the severe floods of 2000. A portable flood defence system is now available and the town centre no longer floods.

BEWDLEY STATION With three platforms, Bewdley station is the largest on the line and LOWER PARK HOUSE still retains the atmosphere of a small town junction. In the heritage The Severn Valley Railway railway business it is one of very few places where double line was already five years old working is in operation, albeit a very short section between the two when Stanley Baldwin was 1877-built signal boxes which are the oldest on the railway. born here in 1867. He was Prime Minister three times (once during the abdication Wribbenhall WEST MIDLAND SAFARI PARK of King Edward VIII) and Viaduct Several forms of wildlife are later became the first Earl usually running free behind the Bewdley Station Baldwin of Bewdley. strong security fences of the West Midland Safari Park. It is not accessible by rail as, for safety reasons, the animals can only be BEWDLEY BY-PASS BRIDGE viewed from inside a closed The bridge was actually constructed vehicle. alongside the line in the summer of 1986. Sandbourne Only a few short weeks were available Viaduct between summer and winter operation when trains were not running. In that time, track was lifted and the embankment removed. The bridge was then rolled into position and the line reinstated in time for the Christmas trains. The by-pass was completed in 1987.

ORIGINAL SEVERN VALLEY LINE Earthworks and bridges of the original Severn Valley line can be seen from the site of Rifle Range Halt. It once continued to Stourport and Hartlebury. Today, a short siding at the south Hartlebury Line end of Sandbourne viaduct is all that remains. (Remains of)

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ARLEY TO 4 HIGHLEY HIGHLEY STATION Situated almost a mile from the centre of Highley, this area is HIGHLEY MINE actually called Stanley. The station is a delight, beautifully At the south end of the station, a siding can be restored with meticulous attention to period detail and a seen passing through a white gate and across well -deserved winner of the annual Best Preserved Station the lane. This led to sidings and an incline to award. Look for the cattle dock once used for handling livestock Highley Mine, which was worked from 1874 to and the water tower still used to replenish locomotives. By the 1940. The site of the sidings, which was known signal box is a loading gauge, which enabled staff to check that as ‘The Landsale Yard’, is now occupied by The loaded wagons leaving the goods yard would pass safely under Engine House. Highley bridges. A gate from the platform gives access to the river and Station the Ship Inn. The 2009-built footbridge starts the short walk to The Engine House.

THE ENGINE HOUSE VISITOR CENTRE Sitting on the hillside just south of Highley THE BARGE THAT SANK Station is our Visitor & Education Centre. During the construction of the railway in the late 1850’s, You may like to break your large blocks of red sandstone were quarried from the journey here for a tour of the hillside above the opposite side of the river, and horses exhibition and to see, at close hauled them down the grassy track which can still be seen. quarters, our reserve collection They were then loaded onto waiting barges and taken of steam locomotives and downstream. Unfortunately, one of the barges sank, and other railway vehicles. blocks in the water below those that can still be seen on the Some of the exhibits you can go inside and bank have been there ever since. one of the locomotives has ramped access right up to the footplate. This modern building has been very much designed SEVERN VALLEY with you, the visitor, in mind. The balcony views across 10,000 years ago at the end of the last ice age, a vast the Severn Valley are stunning, especially if you are lucky amount of water flowed for hundreds of years carving out enough to see a steam train pass by during your visit. Stanley what is now the beautiful Severn Valley. Near Borle viaduct A camera is a must here! Cutting one of the longest and most scenic reaches can be seen There is a licensed café restaurant where you can enjoy anything curving gently away downstream. from a coffee to a full meal, an attractive gift-shop, children’s play area and a picnic area. BORLE VIADUCT Visitors holding ‘Freedom of the Line’, Kidderminster to One of five viaducts on the Severn Valley Railway, Borle has Bridgnorth return tickets are admitted free of charge. suffered from mining subsidence over the years. The track has been re-ballasted so many times to keep it level, that For other ticket holders, and visitors by road, Borle Brook the line is now above the parapet walls. In 1795 an early there is an admission charge payable at the door. horse-drawn wooden railway, that started at Billingsley We suggest that you allow at least two hours nearly five miles away, terminated at the riverside here. for your visit. Up to 50 tons of coal a day was once unloaded into awaiting barges, but the venture went bankrupt in 1820. All that remains here is the large restored mine manager’s house and his clerk’s cottage nearby.

KINLET SIDINGS (SITE OF) BROMLEY FARM WINDPUMP The line formation widens here at the site of extensive sidings Mixed farming has been carried on here for built in 1880 for the Billingsley and later Kinlet coal mines up the over a thousand years and Bromley farm on valley of the Borle Brook. The mineral branch and sidings were the skyline across the valley is one of several dismantled in 1941 but, although very much overgrown, remains farms along the line. The disused windpump of the track formation may just be seen through the trees. below once lifted water from a spring up to the farm buildings.

BROOKSMOUTH BRIDGE Before the railway was built, the river was a COUNTY BOUNDARY major traffic route with barges called Severn Keep a lookout for a small bridge in a field between the river and Trows carrying goods and raw materials. railway near this point. It marks the Worcester-Shropshire When travelling upstream, men called bow boundary. For about a mile upstream from here to Highley, the hauliers were employed to pull the trows river Severn forms the county boundary with the opposite against the river’s flow. By 1828, when the iron bank in Worcestershire. This was the site of a landslip in 2017, Brooksmouth Bridge cast at Coalbrookdale which was cured expensively, by a stabilisation technique was completed, bow hauliers had largely known as soil nailing. been replaced by horses.

WYRE FOREST COALFIELD Notice where the river shallows and divides either side of a small island. This marks the southern limit of the Highley and Alveley coal mines nearly two miles away. The eastern limit was five miles away across the river over the hills and into Staffordshire. Incredibly, underground workings extended to these points. Arley Station

TWO COUNTIES HIGHLEY TO 5 HAMPTON LOADE THE UNICORN HAMPTON LOADE STATION Hampton Loade village is actually on the other side When train services from Bridgnorth of the river. This small settlement also had an iron restarted under private ownership in 1970, furnace and brass foundry, and on hot summer days they ran only to Hampton Loade which thus Hampton the workers were paid partly in beer. On the railway became the first ‘country station’ to open on Loade side, the station is in Hampton and the nearby the present line. Today trains pass here, but Station Unicorn Inn is also located here. road access is difficult and because of this, the station often exemplifies the country railway as it once was; long periods of calm MILE POSTS with seemingly no-one around except the Most railways provided distance markers at quarter mile signalman, alternating with brief periods of intervals along the line. Here, they are on the river side and intense activity with two trains in the give the distance from London Paddington via Oxford and station at once. Worcester (the original route worked by the Great Western Railway). Marker 144/II (144.5 miles) at this point evokes sentimental memories for long -serving Severn Valley Railway members as it was also the boundary of the first NATIONAL CYCLE ROUTE 45 section of line bought from British Railways in 1970. This section of the route runs parallel to the line from Hampton Loade station to near Country Park Halt. COAL WASHING PLANT Picnic tables now occupy the site of a washing plant where SEVERN VALLEY COUNTRY PARK coal from the mine was screened. It was then loaded into For over 500 years, this area was exploited for rail wagons waiting in the adjacent Alveley sidings. quarrying stone and mining coal. After the last mine Considerable coal traffic was worked from here, and much at Alveley closed in 1969, large tracts of derelict land of it went 10 miles south to Stourport power station. remained and scarred an otherwise beautiful Visitors can enjoy this area by alighting at Country Park Halt landscape. These have now been reclaimed as the which was built as a request stop in 1996. Severn Valley Country Park.

THE MINERS’ TRACK OLD MINERS’ BRIDGE Across the river, Alveley mine worked from 1939 to Miners crossed the Severn by a concrete bridge built in 1969 and was the largest in South Shropshire. Many 1937 which still exists and today gives walkers access to of the miners lived in Highley on this side of the river the country park. It also used to support an aerial and the footpath which crosses the line here was the ropeway which brought the coal from the mine back miners’ track along which they walked to work. across the river to the washing plant. Country Park Halt ALVELEY HALT Miners from further afield travelled to work by train, alighting at Alveley Halt, built where the Alveley miners’ track crosses the line. The halt, which was Halt (site of) opened in 1939, was no more than a short platform with a primitive shelter. No trace of it remains today.

SEVERN VALLEY COUNTRY PARK HIGHLEY BANK VISITOR CENTRE To the north of Highley, trains have to negotiate the steepest gradients Some of the finest scenery can and the sharpest curves on the line. Originally a direct line in a cutting be viewed from here. The was to have been built, but due to the unstable nature of the ground, the Centre was built on the former builders had to go around the problem. In autumn the line here is slippery spoil heap of Alveley mine with rain and leaves, and a driver needs all his skills to control a heavy which closed in 1969, now train. landscaped and planted over. The Centre houses a number of Highley displays, which tell the story of Station GRADIENT POSTS past mining activity in the valley Where the gradient of the line changes, railways provided markers to and provide details of flora and inform the train crews. There are two examples at Highley, the one at fauna that can be seen from the north end shows that the line is level through the station, and that waymarked footpaths. it rises at 1 in 100 from the platform end.

WYRE FOREST COALFIELD HAMPTON LOADE TO 6 EARDINGTON HALT (DISUSED )

EARDINGTON BANK Hard work for northbound trains. Listen to the exhaust beat of the engine increase as it moves off from Sterns. The gradient is easy for a car, but is quite a climb for a locomotive pulling a Eardington heavy train. On the climb the train enters a long cutting and Halt (Closed) then passes the now -disused Eardington Halt. STERNS LANDSLIP The brakes come on and the train slows to 15mph at Sterns, infamous in Severn The Concrete ‘Path’ Valley Railway history as the location Between Sterns Cottage and the track, you will of a landslip which has led to a speed see what appears to be a short concrete path. restriction at this point from the day This is actually the cap of the piling done here in the line was built. 2007 as part of the flood repair !

Hay Bridge Mor THE POLE THAT MOVES! Brook THE LONG COVERT Severe floods in early 1995 severely eroded the The stretch of woodland across the river bank and led to a major landslip that river is the Long Covert, through moved the track out of alignment. So 3000 which a footpath from Hampton tonnes of large stones were laid along the Sterns Loade to Dudmaston passes. bank at the water’s edge to minimize land movement. Look carefully for a telegraph pole about 20 yards from the line and almost hidden in the trees. It originally stood next to the track and over the years the slip has moved it to its present position.

SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE WATER COMPANY The blue arches of the river bridge are in fact large water pipes, part of the system between reservoir and treatment plant. This company supplies water to the Severn Trent system. Decking suspended from the pipe arches carries a private road, which also crosses the railway at the gated Waterworks Crossing.

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The King & Castle is adjacent to the station concourse at Kidderminster and the Railwayman’s Hampton Arms is on platform 1 at Bridgnorth Loade Station What are you waiting for? LANDSLIP ! EARDINGTON HALT (DISUSED ) TO 7 BRIDGNORTH

BRIDGNORTH CASTLE LOCOMOTIVE WORKS The castle site was first fortified in the 11th century and again in the Four large buildings beyond the 19th century. The stone keep and strong high town walls were built station platforms house the later. Bridgnorth was a Royalist stronghold during the Civil War and Locomotive Works. At the north was besieged for 4 weeks before the King’s men surrendered. end is a purpose-built Boiler Shop The walls were then pulled down and an attempt made to blow completed in 1989. Next to it, the up the keep. All that remains today is the leaning tower, locally former goods shed of 1863 now famous as it leans more than its better -known rival at Pisa. houses the Machine Shop. At the south end, the large BRIDGNORTH FOOTBRIDGE locomotive shed doubles as the A hundred years ago, the Borough Council built a bridge so that Erecting Shop and Running railway passengers and townspeople could get to and from the Depot. We regret that for your station more easily. In 1988 a footbridge trust was formed to safety, access to this fascinating raise funds for a new bridge, completed in 1994. So once again, complex is not possible. railway passengers can get to the town with ease.

BRIDGNORTH STATION The station here dates back to 1861 and is now a listed building. PAN PUDDING HILL One feature is the refreshment room, today enlarged as the The large grass -covered hill overlook - Railwayman’s Arms and believed to be unique as the station ing the station is Pan Pudding Hill, and refreshment room that never closed, even when the line was was built as a siege castle by Henry I in disused. 1101. From there, he bombarded Bridgnorth Castle using large catapults Oldbury BRIDGNORTH BY-PASS called Trebuchet, in order to subdue a Viaduct Opened in 1985, this much-needed road took heavy traffic away troublesome Baron. Later in 1646 from the town’s medieval streets. Sweeping over the Severn and during the Civil War, the hill was used under the railway, the bypass was a costly headache to the railway as a gun platform by Parliamentarian company, as it had to bear 30% of the cost of the railway bridge. forces, to fire on the Royalist castle. Then only a week after it opened, part of the southern approach embankment slipped just after a train had passed over it! Knowlesands Tunnel KNOWLESANDS BRICKWORKS DANIEL’S MILL The last and largest brickworks in this As the train crosses Oldbury Viaduct, Daniel’s Mill area was once connected to the railway. can be seen below on the river side of the line. Today, the site is a busy industrial estate. Milling has been carried on here for over 900 years Eardington and the 38ft water wheel powering the present Summit EARDINGTON SUMMIT Victorian mill is the largest of its type in England. The summit of the line at 210 feet is marked by a board on The family of the late owner, who was also a the river side of a long cutting which partially obscures the founder member of the Severn Valley Railway, view. From near this point, a line to Wolverhampton was welcomes visitors at certain times. planned but never built. This is why Oldbury Viaduct and Knowlesands Tunnel were built wide enough for two tracks. Crossing Cottage CROSSING COTTAGE The engine whistles for Crossing EARDINGTON HALT Cottage, built in 1859 where a private Eardington Halt is a long way from the village of the same name and track crosses the line. The keeper who situated in an apparently remote location. It was sited to serve two looked after the crossing gates also ironworks: Upper Forge situated behind the halt and Lower Forge worked at Eardington and he used to hidden out of sight on the riverbank. These ironworks were the last in cycle along the railway to get to work. England to produce cannons for the British Army, the last delivery went to South Africa during the Boer War. Under private ownership, Eardington was a busy intermediate stop and watering place for locomotives when services began, but is now disused and used principally as a track maintenance depot. Trains no longer call here although the station is still maintained by a group of volunteers.

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