Butts Spur Line

The Butts Spur was a freight railway line constructed around 1860 with the aim of linking Worcester Foregate Street railway station to Diglis where the Worcester and Birmingham canal joined the river Severn.

It was hoped that goods arriving at Diglis from the river Severn would be transhipped to the railway.

[1] It descended from Foregate street station on a viaduct to the north side of the Worcester to Hereford rail line into a headshunt where the locomotive would reverse direction.

[1] The line's construction did not achieve its aim of reaching Diglis, instead finishing adjacent to Dent's factory and Stallard's Distillery which at the time were located on South Quay.

[4] Traces of the line remain visible in the descending gradient of the viaduct arches which are currently used as commercial and storage units.