Elmfield

Elmfield

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Elmfield is a small town in town in north Worcestershire on the edge of the Black Country, which kept itself very much to itself until coal was discovered in the early 19th century.


It was then dragged kicking and screaming into the industrial revolution by arrival, first by canal, and then by the railway in the 1880s by the way of a branch from the Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton at Stourbridge Junction.  

The coal ran out in the 1920s, but by then large deposits of fireclay had been found. Because of the brick and pipe production became the main industry for Elmfield

The Model depicts the station and exchange sidings in the early 1960s before the Beeching axe removed the passenger services in 1964. The use of firebricks and clay pipes was also in severe decline and goods traffic completely in the closure if the works in 1967.