February 25
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On February 25 in SVR history.
- 1967 While based at Carlisle Kingsmoor Depot, future SVR resident Ivatt Mogul 43106 made her most northerly run into Scotland on a railtour from Carlisle to Beattock and back, becoming the last steam loco to use Beattock turntable.[1]
- 1970 A contract was made between Shropshire County Council and the Guarantee Company requiring the former to give three months' notice of their intention to begin construction of Bridgnorth Bypass.[2]
- 1984 BR Class 50 50007 was outshopped by BR in Brunswick Green and renamed Sir Edward Elgar, to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Great Western Railway.
- 1987 Miss Marple: 4:50 from Paddington was first broadcast.
- 1999 A charter special ran from Kidderminster to Bridgnorth with the first SVR crew drawn entirely from volunteers born after the end of the BR steam era in 1968.[3]
- 2017 Then resident 34053 Sir Keith Park visited the Nene Valley Railway's ‘Bulleid 50’ gala.
- 2020: PPM50 Parry People Mover Class 999 No. 999900 arrived for testing.
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