Tenbury Railway Tenbury Railway The Tenbury Railway was a railway that ran between Woofferton and Tenbury station in Shropshire, England. Early in its history a through connection was made to the Tenbury and Bewdley Railway which continued to Bewdley in Worcestershire; the route formed by the two railways sometimes being referred to as the Wyre Forest line or simply the Tenbury Line. The Tenbury Railway opened in August 1861 as a 5 mile branch line connecting the Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway (S&HR) at Woofferton to a terminus at Tenbury via an intermediate station at Easton Court. The line was operated by the
Bewdley in living memory were those in 1947, 1968 and 2000, where 140 properties were affected. Bewdley's long experience of dealing with flooding led to the setting up of the National Flood Forum in the town in 2002. Bewdley Bridge over the Severn was built in 1798 by Thomas Telford. It was erected to replace the 1483 medieval bridge which was swept away in the floods of 1795. A modern road bridge, opened to the south-east of the town at Blackstone in 1987 after many decades of campaigning, carries the Bewdley bypass across the river. The Tenbury and Bewdley Railway branched