 The S&BR threatened a Parliamentary Bill to resolve the matter, and in February 1852 the LNWR opened the Stour Valley Railway to its own goods trains, and to passenger trains on 1 July 1852.Still the LNWR found reasons to exclude the running of S&BR trains, and it was only on 4 February 1854 that this usage started.The station was opened on 1 June 1854.