Guiseley Silica
Guiseley Silica is listed in the RCHRailway Clearing House 1938 Handbook of Stations as having a private siding at Kidderminster. The Handbook also notes that General Refractories had a business accessed via (or sharing) the Guiseley Silica private siding.
A winding up notice for The Guiseley Silica Company Limited appeared in the London Gazette on 28 November 1939. The meeting was held at the offices of General Refractories Limited in Sheffield,[1] further suggesting a relationship existed between the two companies.
There is no information on the exact location or the nature of Guiseley Silica's business, although the name would suggest that they were involved in sand extraction from one of the many sand pits in the area. Despite the winding up notice, the business may have continued or been re-established at a later date, as a subsequent report suggested that they operated two narrow gauge locomotives which were replaced by dump trucks by 1967[2].
See also
Private sidings connected to the Severn Valley Railway
References
- ↑ The London Gazette
- ↑ Guiseley Silica Co. Ltd on the Malvern Industrial Archaeology Circle web site
Railway Clearing House Handbook of Stations including Junctions, sidings, Collieriies, Works &C. 1938
Links
1:25000 Ordnance Survey map of Kidderminster north on the National Library of Scotland web site
1:25000 Ordnance Survey map of Kidderminster south on the National Library of Scotland web site
