Kidderminster Town station Severn Valley Railway

Kidderminster is the youngest of the SVR stations.

After Kidderminster goods yard became disused in 

1982, the SVR purchased the line to the east of Foley

 Park. Sharing the British Rail station of Kidderminster 

was impractical, so SVR claimed a site to the 

west of the BR station.

Kidderminster Town lies only a few yards from 

Kidderminster station on the National Rail network.

 The name "Kidderminster Town" was chosen because 

GWR custom, where there were two stations in a 

town, was to give the "Town" designation to the 

closer one to the town centre, a measure by which

 Kidderminster Town just manages to beat its NR

 counterpart by around 50 metres (150 feet).

When the station building was constructed insufficient 

funds meant only two wings of the basic building could

 be completed. Many of the typical Victorian GWR station

 fixtures and fittings also had to be omitted. The station

 design was based on a turn of the century GWR design 

for Ross-on-Wye station.

Since then a number of these missing features have

 been constructed and erected by volunteers including 

a cantilevered canopy in the 1880s Port Cochere style

 at the front of the building and the replica ornamental 

crestings adorning the two towers.

The original iron crestings of this style are thought to 

have been cast by Macfarlane & Coat the Saracen Foundry,

Possilpark, Glasgow. At the architect's request the replicas

 have been cast in aluminium to reduce the deadweight 

on the tower structures. To prevent corrosion due to 

electrolytic action all fixings to the roof structure have

 been electrically isolated from the aluminium castings

 with plastic washers

In common with other SVR stations Kidderminster Town 

is comprehensively signalled. Recent work has seen

 completion of the work to link Network Rail (NR) signalling

 system to that of the SVR to allow passage of passenger

 carrying trains directly from NR to the SVR. Previously

 passenger carrying trains could only pass from SVR 

metals to that of NR.

In 2000, the carriage shed was constructed within the site. A fifth of a mile long, it is the UK's largest on a heritage railway with a capacity of circa 56 bogie vehicles.

In the Spring of 2012, it was a filming location of the fantasy adventure movie Mariah Mundi and the Midas Box, which was scheduled for release in 2013.