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[[File: OS_Wilden_Detail.jpg|thumb|300px|right|OS Map Wilden 1951, with the Sand Sidings Siding north of the line]] A '''Wilden Sand Siding''' served a sand quarry was located at Wilden, on the [[Stourport Branch]] between Hartlebury and Stourport, served by a siding on the Severn Valley Railway.

A large sand quarry was situated north of the cuttingbetween the Wilden Lane Underbridge and Wilden Top Road Overbridge. A Access to the cutting was controlled by a ground frameat the western end, locked by the section token. The extract below from the OS map of 1927, surveyed in 1925, controlled access to shows the size and extent of the siding which measured around 600ft in length. The date when the sidingwas 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>.<gallery mode=packed heights=200px style="text-align:left">OS_Wilden_1927.jpg|1927 OS Map showing Wilden Sand Siding</gallery>