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
Droitwich Spa in the 17th century discovered the pit and set up business for himself, but eventually due to the lack of brine he failed to compete with the town monopoly. The underground brine reservoirs were only deep and in 1725 boreholes were sunk to the base of the pits, accessing brine in almost unlimited quantities and independent of the natural brine flow, and the monopoly ceased. With this production increased and pumps were used to draw brine, however, as a result parts of the town succumbed to subsidence. In the mid-19th century, Droitwich became famous as a spa town. Unlike other