SVR Archives
The SVR archives were set up in 2009 and are held in an upstairs room at The Engine House.
The archive room holds a vast collection of information dating back to the earliest days of the SVR’s preservation. It includes every copy of SVR News, every timetable and promotional booklet, plus many old SVR posters and timetables and a large collection of press cuttings from 1965 onwards.[1]
The SVR Archive has an informal agreement with Kidderminster Railway Museum that documents donated to either organisation relating to the SVR in the preservation era will go to Highley, while those relating to the railway pre-preservation, go to Kidderminster. This is not however exclusive, for example when an original copy of the 1862 Act of Parliament that authorised an alteration of the terms of the lease of the Severn Valley Railway Company to the West Midland Railway Company was presented to the Archives in 2019[2].
Sample posters from the archive[edit | edit source]
The Archive also holds a large collection of photos, mainly of the SVR in the preservation era.
As of 2022[update] work is progressing on cataloguing these photos with the intention of making them more widely available. The images below link to a selection of pages of thumbnail images with descriptions to give a preview of what will be available when the work is complete.
Any enquiries about these or other items held at the Archive should be addressed to archive@svrlive.com
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See also[edit | edit source]
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Express Points February 2019
- ↑ Branch Lines July 2019