Perched above the River Severn, here's an old mining town that now makes posh pens.

What was D. Leonardt & Co now have their headquarters here and are rare survivors of the thriving Birmingham pen trade of the 1850s, you remember?

This sort of thing normally causes great excitement and an hour could happily be spent in a Staple™s or a big Ryman™s but don't get too excited, there are no organised tours here to meet 'his nibs'.

They've had to diversify and mainly make those metal, silver corner bits that you get on diaries. Now that's niche.

The Severn Valley Railway chuff-chuff also choo-choos through here and you'll need to head downhill past the Severn Valley Country Park car park for the trains.

If you're looking instead for the Ship Inn, get to the point where you think you can't go any further and then go a little bit further.

It's hoped the 14:28 to, or was it from?, Kidderminster isn't running too late.

You really don't want to be hanging about on a wet platform in this drizzle.

It was assumed this line was all about the coal, the small railway museum sitting on the old colliery sidings a clue. Only partially apparently, this was a passenger branch that also linked you to Shrewsbury but so-called 'Dr'  Beeching didn't consider the fortnightly trips to Gay Meadow viable and closed it down in 1963.

An enthusiastic bunch of choo-choo nuts in Kidderminster had soon clubbed together and the now heritage railway was up and chuffing by 1970 with this about halfway along the 16-mile stretch.

The station is the starting point for some circular walks into the Severn Valley Country Park. With the river on your right, head north to cross the footbridge that replaced the old Pit Bridge, itself showing signs of subsiding into the Severn by the early noughties.

This subsidence was a consequence of all of the previous excavation either side of this quite steep-sided gorge and the decision to replace or not wasn't straightforward.

In fact, they were very much in two mines.