Salford Priors Station
Salford Priors was just a short distance south from Broom
Junction and as with Harvington was opened for goods traffic on 16th June 1866
and on 17th September 1866 for passenger traffic. The station would not in all
probability have been built if Broom Junction had been built first the latter
being built to accommodate the Evesham, Redditch & Stratford Railway's
(latterly the SMJR) junction.
The station was similar in layout and design to Harvington
and Studley & Astwood Bank stations having single faced platform, goods
shed and yard to the northern end of the station and station master's house
with single storey passenger and booking office facilities. Access to the
station was via a side gate from the approach road that also served the goods
yard. Steps from the road bridge provided an alternative approach to passengers
approaching by foot.
The goods facilities included two sidings one of which was
via a loop off the main line and provided access to the goods shed. A one and
half ton manually operated crane facilitated the handling of larger loads and
the goods yard could therefore handle furniture, livestock, horseboxes,
agricultural products and inwards coal traffic the yard having a capacity for
thirty-five vehicles. In 1910 the station saw a private connection installed
for Bromford & Evershed Engineering works.
The station line officially closed on 17th September 1963
although the last train to run was on 1st October 1962 with a bus service
replacing the train service until the line's closure conformed to legal
requirements.
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