September 18

On September 18 in SVR history.

• 1879 Leviathan Thorpe, an expectant mother, was arrested for fortune-telling. She was sentenced to six months hard labour. Some years later she gave birth to George Thorpe, who in time became a licensee of The Railwayman's Arms.
• 1921 Billingsley Colliery closed, although the colliery railway continued in use to serve a landsale yard on the Bridgnorth to Cleobury Mortimer road.
• 1940 Railcar 22 entered service from Newport shed.
• 1967 GWR 1399 Milk Brake arrived on the SVR from Worcester.
• 1986 GWR 41277 4 plank Open Goods Wagon arrived at the SVR from Sharpness Docks, having been condemned there by the GWR 51 years previously.
• 1999 The railway saw an unusual visitor with a through Bridgnorth - Paignton excursion using a BR HST
• 2018 GWR 2857 Heavy Goods Loco reached 100,000 miles in preservation.
• 2021: Saturday of the Autumn Steam Gala featured guests GWR 4953 Pitchford Hall and GWR 0-6-0PT 9466.
• 2022: Sunday of the 4-day Autumn Steam Gala with three guest locomotives in service. The event was billed as featuring the return to service of 4930 Hagley Hall, but the locomotive was withdrawn on the Saturday after a number of lineside fires on the first two days.
• 2025 After being rebuilt from GWR Collett Bow-Ended Coach No 5043, GWR 9581 Wheelchair accessible Buffet Car was launched into traffic on 18 September 2025, the first day of the 2025 Autumn Steam Gala, with a 'special' train hauled by 4930 Hagley Hall.

Gallery

Photos taken on 18 September:

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  2014: Autumn Gala guest S&DJR Fowler 7F 53808 [S&DJR 88]
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  2014: Autumn Gala guest LMS Fowler 4F 43924
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  2021: Autumn Gala guest GWR 4953 Pitchford Hall
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  2021: BR Class 31 31466 at Highley
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  2025: Wheelchair accessible Buffet Car GWR 9581 on its first day in service

See also

On this day in SVR history

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Severn Valley Railway

Great Western Railway

British Rail or British Railways

Charles Benjamin Collett, Chief Mechanical Engineer (CME) of the Great Western Railway 1922-1941

Somerset & Dorset Joint Railway, jointly operated by the London and South Western and Midland Railways (later Southern and London Midland and Scottish Railways)

Henry Fowler, Chief Mechanical Engineer (CME) of the Midland Railway 1909-1923, and of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway 1923-1933

The British Railways system of classifying steam locomotives by power using a number from 0, least powerful, to 9, most powerful, followed by either F for freight, P for Passenger or MT for Mixed Traffic.

London Midland & Scottish Railway

The British Railways system of classifying steam locomotives by power using a number from 0, least powerful, to 9, most powerful, followed by either F for freight, P for Passenger or MT for Mixed Traffic.