Cleobury Mortimer and Ditton Priors Light Railway
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1901 The company was incorporated. [1]
1908 A 12 mile line east of Ludlow opened in 1908
The line lay in rural southern Shropshire. The railway's course runs parallel with the Severn Valley Railway, which lies to the east of it. The junction was Cleobury Mortimer which lay on the GWR's Tenbury Wells-Bewdley line. Ditton Priors, appeared on the railway map at a rather late stage, the line was not opened until 1908.
Originally the line was worked by two Manning, Wardle 0-6-0STs.
1923 Became part of the Great Western Railway
The main freight traffic was stone from the quarries in this part of the Clee Hills.
Passenger traffic ceased in 1938, and goods in 1939.
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Sources of Information
- ↑ The Stock Exchange Year Book 1908
- Encyclopedia of British Railway Companies by Christopher Awdry. Published 1990
- [1] Wikipedia