National Cold Stores Siding

1951 OSOrdnance Survey Map showing Stourport Station (bottom right) to Burlish Halt (top left).

1948 aerial photograph of Stourport. The station is at top centre, the SVRSevern Valley Railway passing from left (Bewdley) to right (Hartlebury). Image from Britain from Above.

A siding was provided in 1941 at Stourport to serve the World War 2 emergency silo and food store. The National Cold Stores facility was situated a short distance west of station to the north of the line.

The location of the Store can be seen on the 1951 OSOrdnance Survey map, although the siding itself is not shown. The Store is visible as the large white building west of the station in the 1948 areial view of Stourport.

Access to the siding was controlled by two(?) levers and an intermediate token machine, released by token.

See also

• Private sidings connected to the Severn Valley Railway
• Pre-1963 map
• List of historical Signal Boxes and Ground Frames