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E&OE *Subject to Availability Arley Station Please Note: Improvement Works Are Planned to Take Place at the Station OVER the SUMMIT During 2016 Family Fun at Arley Arboretum We have plenty of fun and adventures for the whole family to enjoy! Maze Every journey ends with a memory Find your way to the centre of our twisty, turny maze to find the castle! Kid’s Woodland Trails FROM Collect your free activity sheets, follow the clues, answer the questions and THE WINDOW Take a step back in time and watch the Severn Valley claim a prize!* N Railway trains steam across the hill from one of our DelMar Play Trail W OW magnificent signposted walks. Arley Arboretum & Gardens IT Our outdoor adventure H I provide an idyllic escape into nature and history for PAG SPY trail consists of 9 play ES you and your family to learn, laugh and play. FOR areas linked together by THE Wander through our 30 acres of natural beauty, with a 40m-long trail! CHI LDR specialist trees and gardens that will captivate all seasons! Garden Tea Room EN Selection of freshly Opening Times prepared hot and cold Open Weds - Sun food, handmade cakes 11am - 5pm and a range of beverages. Plus bank holidays & some school holidays Just a 10 Minute Walk From Arley Station Forestry Adventure Club (2-12yrs) Weddings Licensed for marriages and From Bug Hunts to Story Arley Arboretum & gardens Telling, Campfire Songs civil partnerships. From small & intimate to grand & decadent, and Cooking! On select Arley bespoke weddings to fulfil Cut through Church days during school the Church your dreams. grounds holidays. Discounts to Arley Arboretum available for siblings. Check our website and Mini Adventurers Club (Under 5’s) Facebook page for news Arley of seasonal activities, Village Every Thursday during R events & adventures iver S term time £4 per session evern www.arleyarboretum.co.uk Children’s Birthday Parties Available R.D. Turner Charitable Trust. Reg. No. 1154467 See website for details www.svr.co.uk E&OE *Subject to availability Arley Station Please note: Improvement works are planned to take place at the station OVER THE SUMMIT during 2016. 1 Bridgnorth to Please see the ‘News Page’ of our website for the latest information as some Eardington Halt facilities may be closed or (disused) USING temporarily moved. LANDSLIP THE MAPS 2 Eardington Halt to Hampton Loade Each main map covers just over two miles of the line allowing for 1 overlap as shown, and points of interest are marked by captions. References to the direction of travel and of the ‘left hand’ or ‘right hand’ side of the train have 2 been avoided wherever possible. This will help you to follow the BRIDGNORTH journey more easily, regardless of Our terminus at the northern end of the line, Bridgnorth is a popular starting point for visitors from the north and west. The station building is largely original, dating which station you start from, in from the opening of the line in 1862 although there have been many changes over which direction you are travelling, the years. Our locomotive works is situated here with viewing of the locomotive WYRE and whether you are facing or yard possible from the station footbridge. Casual access to the Works is NOT FOREST 3 3 have your back to the engine. permitted except on special days which are advertised on our website. COALFIELD Hampton Loade to Highley STATION FACTFILE Parking YES - pay & display. Refreshment room YES TWO COUNTIES Additional free parking is also available on busy days Sales Gift-shop. Stalls selling mainly second-hand 4 Highley to Arley during the summer months. Please look out for books, magazines and railway items. 4 direction signs. Access information Take the footbridge from the ACROSS THE SEVERN Toilets YES station main entrance for 1 5-minute walk into 5 Disabled - friendly toilets YES – key available from the the town. You will encounter some significant Arley to Northwood Halt gift-shop. slopes and steps as Bridgnorth is split into a ‘high’ Wheelchair access to the train - platform 1 YES and ‘low’ town separated by a sandstone cliff. GEORGIAN RIVER PORT Wheelchair access to the train - platform 2 YES A cliff railway is in operation (additional charge). 6 Northwood Halt to with staff assistance. Bewdley and Rifle Range 5 Halt (Site of) THINGS TO SEE & DO Castle Grounds The Castle Grounds are famous for the castle that Cromwell’s forces didn’t CARPETS AND CANAL quite manage to blow up! The Grounds are located in front of you as you 7 Rifle Range to leave the footbridge. This is a great place for a picnic on a sunny day, 7 offering stunning views across the Severn Valley. From the Castle Grounds Kidderminster Town 6 you can take the cliff-top pathway past the ‘top station’ of the Cliff Railway ending in the centre of High Town. Bridgnorth Cliff Railway No visit to Bridgnorth is complete without a trip on the Cliff Railway which is the steepest inland funicular railway in England. If you have a fear of heights don’t look down when you are in one of the cars! This is probably the easiest way to access Low Town and the riverside. Severn Valley Railway, Visit http://www.bridgnorthcliffrailway.co.uk / to find out more. Official Site or Shopping A good mix of independent retailers and smaller shops belonging to Severn Valley Railway Families national chains. There are also a number of gift-shops. Markets on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Follow us Visit http://www.visitbridgnorth.co.uk/shopping/bridgnorth-shops- @svrofficialsite markets.php to find out more. Eateries Food to suit every taste and pocket is available in Bridgnorth. Severn Valley Railway, Number One, Comberton Place, Kidderminster, DY10 1QR Most cuisines available. Tel: 01562 757900 BRIDGNORTH TO EARDINGTON HALT (DISUSED ) 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 The walls were then pulled down and an attempt made to blow Shop completed in 1989. Next to up the keep. All that remains today is the leaning tower, locally it, the former goods shed of 1863 famous as it leans more than its better -known rival at Pisa. now 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, unrestricted access to this raise funds for a new bridge, completed in 1994. So once again, fascinating complex is not railway passengers can get to the town with ease. possible. BRIDGNORTH STATION The station here dates back to 1861 and is now a listed building. PAN PUDDING HILL Oldbury One feature is the refreshment room, today enlarged as the The large grass -covered hill overlook - Cutting Railwayman’s Arms and believed to be unique as the station ing the station is Pan Pudding Hill, and Daniel’s refreshment room that never closed, even when the line was was built as a siege castle by Henry I in Mill 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 riverside 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 Victorian mill is the largest of its type in England. The owner, who is also a founder member of the EARDINGTON SUMMIT Severn Valley Railway, welcomes visitors at certain The summit of the line at 210 feet is marked by a board on times. the riverside of a long cutting which partially obscures the view. From near this point, a line to Wolverhampton was Crossing CROSSING COTTAGE planned but never built. This is why Oldbury Viaduct and Cottage The engine whistles for Crossing Knowlesands Tunnel were built wide enough for two tracks. Cottage, built in 1859 where a private track crosses the line. The keeper who looked after the crossing gates also worked at Eardington and he used to EARDINGTON HALT cycle along the railway to get to work. Eardington Halt is a long way from the village of the same name and The cottage is now the home of two situated in an apparently remote location. It was sited to serve two working members of the Severn Valley ironworks: Upper Forge situated behind the halt and Lower Forge Railway who enjoy the railway hidden out of sight on the riverbank.
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