Cleobury Mortimer and Ditton Priors Light Railway
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The Cleobury Mortimer and Ditton Priors Light Railway was a pre-grouping railway company that served part of south Shropshire.
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Everard Calthrop was appointed Consulting Engineer in 1900, responsible for surveying the route and preparing the construction plans. Construction was authorised by an order under the Light Railways Act 1896 granted on 23 March 1901,[1] and the line opened for passenger traffic on 21 November 1908.[2] The line had a junction with the Wyre Forest line of the Great Western Railway (GWR) at Cleobury Mortimer and was absorbed into the GWR in 1922.
The line closed for passenger services on 26 September 1938.[3] The line was then used by the Royal Navy which had a Royal Naval Armaments Depot (RNAD) at the end of line at RNAD Ditton Priors until the railway finally closed in 1960.