Shutt End Railway (Kingswinford)
About
The Shutt End Railway was a small Worcestershire colliery railway opened on 2 June 1829, running about 2 miles from Lord Dudley's Shutt End collieries near Kingswinford to a coal wharf on the Stourbridge Canal. The line was engineered by John Urpeth Rastrick and was worked from its opening by the locomotive Agenoria, built by Foster, Rastrick and Company of Stourbridge.
Agenoria, the only sister of the Stourbridge Lion that was sent to America, worked on the Shutt End Railway from 1829 until about 1864. She is preserved at the National Railway Museum, York. The Shutt End Railway itself closed in stages through the late nineteenth century with the decline of the local coal trade.