May 22
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On May 22 in SVR history.
- 1970 A new automatic telephone exchange was brought into use by the S&T Department.[1]
- 1972: The original share offer in the newly created SVR(H) closed. It was over-subscribed.[2]
- 1977: A 2-day 'Vintage Weekend' was held on 21-22 May, staged jointly with the Birmingham Museum of Transport Society.[3]
- 1988 A 2857 75th Anniversary Freight Train took place.[4]
- 1999 The 'Inter-City Tanks' railtour from Finsbury Park-Kemble -Stourbridge Jct-Tyseley ran with 80098 and 80079.
- 2007 GWR Small Prairie 4566 was used on a steam-hauled revenue earning freight charter, taking a load of pipes to Trimpley Reservoir for Severn Trent Water[5].
- 2022: Sunday of the 4-day Spring Diesel Festival which featured eight visiting locomotives in addition to members of the home fleet.
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On this day in SVR history