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I doubt that the total weekly output from Alveley (the coal winding shaft of Highley unit) would keep the power station going for 24 hours, and as only about 30% went to Stourport, the bulk of coal needed there would have to come from somewhere else. The Highley/Alveley unit was only a small mine. <br>
<noglossary>Up</noglossary> until 1954, I lived overlooking Kidderminster station, and regularly saw the coal trains coming down from Stourbridge, often with a super D on the front. Inside the hour, the super D would appear light engine from Bewdley, now facing North, to then trundle off tender first to Hartlebury, appearing some time later with empties. The 56xx at Kiddy, sometimes a 57xx, was stationed at Hartlebury to work the coal and empties to and from Stourport, I later worked at other pits in Shropshire, finishing on Cannock Chase, where I knew that coal went to Stourport and Ironbridge from Littleton colliery, a much bigger pit than Highley."
==New recruits at RAF Bridgnorth==
A visitor to the SVR recalled that as a young boy growing up in Bridgnorth, he and his friends would go to the station whenever a new intake for [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Bridgnorth RAF Bridgnorth] arrived by train. The new recruits were lined up on the platform and ordered to turn their pockets out before being marched off to the camp. After they had had gone, the boys would go along the platform picking up all the chocolate and cigarettes, "It was like Xmas every six weeks".
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