May 12

On May 12 in SVR history.

• 1887 The GWR authorised a number of improvements at Bridgnorth, including raising both platforms, lengthening the Down platform and adding a platform shelter and footbridge.
• 1967: Railcar 22 was moved from Kidderminster to the SVR boundary in an Alveley Colliery empties train, ready to be collected the following day.
• 1972: Collett 0-6-0 3205 and newly restored 5764 were in service together, the first time two GWR locomotives had shared Severn Valley passenger services since the 1960s.
• 1989 SR 34027 Taw Valley undertook a loaded main line test run between Derby and Sheffield and return, prior to her first main line expoits.
• 1990 D1013 Western Ranger attended the Special Mid Line Promotion Day on static display at Birmingham Snow Hill.
• 1999 The award of a Heritage Lottery Fund grant of £1.757m towards the construction of Kidderminster Carriage Shed was announced.
• 2003 BR Class 08 0-6-0DE D3937 'Gladys' arrived on open-ended loan from Dean Forest Diesel Association.
• 2009 The Great Western (SVR) Association ran a special train to celebrate “the 50th Anniversary of the Association on the Severn Valley Railway”.

Gallery

Photos taken on 12 May:

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  2012: HE 686 The Lady Armaghdale" in The Engine House
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  2012: 4930 Hagley Hall in The Engine House
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  2012: D1062 Western Courier at Bridgnorth

See also

On this day in SVR history

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Severn Valley Railway

Great Western Railway

In reference to the direction of travel means away from the major terminus (i.e. towards Bridgnorth on the present day SVR)

British Rail or British Railways

William Dean, Chief Locomotive Engineer of the Great Western Railway 1877-1902