Cleobury Mortimer and Ditton Priors Light Railway

The Cleobury Mortimer and Ditton Priors Light Railway was a British railway company in Shropshire in West Midlands in England. The company was founded on the basis of the Light Railways Act on May 23, 1901 Construction of a 19 km long stretch of Cleobury Mortimer Ditton Priors after. On July 19, 1908, the route for the goods and could be opened for passenger traffic on 20 November 1908. In Cleobury Mortimer a connection to the Great Western Railway route consisted of Tenbury after Bewdley.

On January 1, 1922, the company was taken over by the GWR. On September 26, 1938, the passenger has been set. With effect from May 1, 1957, the Royal Navy took over the route since there was a weapons cache in Ditton Priors. As this was shut down, put it also includes the operation of the web 16 April 1965.

The company had two three-axle tank locomotives, the later the numbers 28 and 29 were at the GWR.

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