June 1
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On June 1 in SVR history.
- 1868 Eardington Station opened.[1]
- 1869 Wyre Forest Station opened.[2]
- 1878 The Kidderminster Loop Line opened.[3]
- 1895 The original footbridge outside Bridgnorth Station opened to the public.[4]
- 1967 Contracts were exchanged between BR and the SVR for the purchase of the line between Bridgnorth and Alveley Sidings.[5]
- 1980: The 70ft vacuum turntable ex- Fort William was moved from the Bluebell Railway to Bewdley.[6]
- 1987 7819 Hinton Manor and 75069 returned to the SVR following the first part of that year's Cardigan Bay Express season.[7]
- 1989 The Bridgnorth Footbridge Trust was registered as a charity, with the aim of building a replacement footbridge outside Bridgnorth Station.
- 1996 The SVR had received a fax in February asking if the SVR did 'Thomas' weekends. Assured that they did, Mr Chee with his wife and young son had traveled from Malaysia to attend the weekend's event.[8]
- 2011 The SVR ran a special train with proceeds going to help the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Steam Railway recover from two embankment collapses.
- 2020: The Fight Back Fund, launched in response to the COVID pandemic, reached £745,000.
- 2026: The first stage of the One Railway project was completed with the conversion of the Public Limited Company SVR(H) into the Charitable Community Benefit Society (CCBS) *Severn Valley Railway Society Limited.[note 1]
- 2026: GWR Large Prairie 4150 became the final SVR-based locomotive to be steamed in preservation.
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On this day in SVR history
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- ↑ Mitchell and Smith (2007) fig. XI.
- ↑ "Branch Lines Around Cleobury Mortimer", Vic Mitchell & Keith Smith (2007), fig. 57
- ↑ Marshall (1989) p. 84.
- ↑ Magner (1997) p. 105.
- ↑ SVR News 13
- ↑ SVR News 56, p. 15.
- ↑ SVR News 85
- ↑ SVR News 119