Rifle Range Halt railway station

Former railway station in England

52°22′08″N 2°17′17″W / 52.3690°N 2.2880°W / 52.3690; -2.2880Grid referenceSO804745Platforms1Other informationStatusDisusedHistoryPre-groupingGreat Western RailwayKey datesJune 1905Opened4 October 1920Closed^[1]

Rifle Range Halt was a short-lived unstaffed request stop on the GWR Kidderminster to Bewdley loop line which now forms part of the Severn Valley Railway. It was west of Bewdley tunnel near the “Devil’s Spittleful”, the sandstone outcrop on the nature reserve now managed by the Worcestershire Wildlife Trust.^[2]

History

Rifle Range Halt opened in June 1905. The halt was mainly served by a steam railmotor service which was introduced on the Kidderminster - Bewdley - Stourport section of the railway in the same year.^[3] The nearby rifle range was used mainly during the First World War by volunteers from the Yeomanry.^[4]

The railmotors operated until 1918, and the halt was closed on 4 October 1920.^[1] No remains are now visible.

References

^ ^a ^b Marshall (1989) p. 143.
^ The Devil's Spittleful & Rifle Range and Blackstone Farm Fields on www.worcswildlifetrust.co.uk
^ Marshall, John (1989). The Severn Valley Railway. Newton Abbot: David St John Thomas. p. 143. ISBN 0-946537-45-3.
^ Worcestershire Wildlife Trust information board.

Preceding station		Disused railways		Following station
Bewdley Line and station open		Great Western Railway Severn Valley Railway		Foley Park Halt Line open, station closed

Transport in Worcestershire

Road

Motorways	M5 M42 M50
A-roads	A38 A44 A46 A422 A435 A441 A442 A448 A449 A456 A491 A4025 A4536
Service stations	Frankley services Hopwood Park services Strensham services
Other	Icknield Street List of settlements on the A38

Rail

Main lines	Cross-City Line Cross Country Route North Warwickshire Line Birmingham to Worcester via Bromsgrove Line Birmingham to Worcester via Kidderminster line Cotswold Line
Closed lines	Oxford–Worcester–Wolverhampton line (Dudley to Wolverhampton section)
Stations	Alvechurch Barnt Green Blakedown Bromsgrove Droitwich Spa Evesham Great Malvern Hagley Hartlebury Honeybourne Kidderminster Malvern Link Pershore Redditch Worcester Foregate Street Worcester Shrub Hill Wythall
Closed stations	Astwood Bank Aston-under-Hill Beckford Bengeworth Bredon Eckington Foley Park Halt Hinton Littleton and Badsey Malvern Wells Ripple Upton-on-Severn Wadborough
Heritage stations	Arley Bewdley Kidderminster Town Northwood Halt
Heritage railways	Severn Valley Railway
Under construction	Broadway Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway

Buses

Routes	Worcestershire bus route 144
Companies	Diamond West Midlands First Midland Red
Other	Bus transport in Bromsgrove

Waterways

Rivers	River Arrow River Avon River Severn River Stour River Teme
Canals	Droitwich Canal Leominster Canal Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal Worcester and Birmingham Canal
Other	Diglis Basin Hampton Ferry Tardebigge Engine House Tardebigge Locks

Footpaths

Long-distance footpaths	Cotswold Way Monarch's Way Severn Way Worcestershire Way Wychavon Way

Cycle paths

v t e Closed railway stations in Worcestershire
Tenbury and Bewdley Railway	Newnham Bridge Wyre Forest
Worcester, Bromyard and Leominster Railway	Suckley Knightwick Leigh Court
Worcester and Hereford Railway	Henwick Boughton Halt Rushwick Halt Bransford Road Newland Halt Malvern Wells
Tewkesbury and Malvern Railway	Malvern Hanley Road Upton-on-Severn Ripple
Severn Valley Railway	Rifle Range Halt Foley Park Halt Burlish Halt Stourport-on-Severn
Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway	Cutnall Green Halt Stoke Works Fernhill Heath Blackpole Halt Astwood Halt Norton Halt Stoulton Wyre Halt Fladbury Littleton and Badsey
Birmingham and Gloucester Railway	Cofton Blackwell Stoke Works Dodderhill Dunhampstead Oddingley Bredicot Spetchley Norton (B&G) Abbots Wood Junction Wadborough Pirton Besford Defford Eckington Bredon
Gloucester loop line	Harvington Bengeworth Hinton (Worcestershire) Ashton-under-Hill Beckford
Honeybourne Line	Broadway