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.^[1]
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.

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