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The HISTORY of REDDITCH New Town
The Railway
The Railway had come to Redditch in 1859 and after a brief period terminating in Clive
Road, the station was relocated south of the Birmingham Road at the bottom of Unicorn
Hill served the town well until the 1970s.
North of the Bromsgrove Road there were extensive goods yards and these were used
to import and store bulk ballast for road building in the New Town thus saving the line
north from closure.
The plan to site the “Traffic Interchange”, bus station to you and me, near the railway
station necessitated relocating the station north of the Bromsgrove Road in the southern
end of the goods yards.
The Beeching cuts saw the last trains south from Redditch in 1964.
Ballast for New Town roads stores in the goods yard at Redditch station.
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