September 23

The stone corbels supporting the canopy were laid on 23 September 1994

On September 23 in SVR history.

• 1966: The Severn Valley Railway Society paid a deposit of £1,150 to the British Railways Estates Department for use of the Bridgnorth station site.
• 1990 During the Autumn Steam Gala on 22 and 23 September, customers could buy a bacon butty "fried on the fireman's shovel" of LNER 4472 Flying Scotsman, with the locomotive carring a tongue-in-cheek "Frying Scotsman" headboard.
• 1994 Lady Lucinda Lambton christened the new Kidderminster Turntable and also officiated at a ceremony to mark the laying of the corbels for the 'porte cochere' canopy at Kidderminster Town station.

Gallery

Photos taken on 23 September:

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  1990: LNER 4472 Flying Scotsman at Highley with "Frying Scotsman" headboard
  (Wikimedia Commons)
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  2011: On-hire BR Standard 9F 92212
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  2011: Gala guest 60163 Tornado
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  2011: Gala guest GWR Collett 'Large Prairie' 4160
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  2011: Gala guest Caledonian Railway McIntosh 812 class 3F 828

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  2011: Gala guest GWR Collett King class 6024 King Edward 1
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  2011: 2857 at Highley
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  2016: 'Pacific Power' Gala guest 60163 Tornado
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  2016: 'Pacific Power' Gala guest 60103 Flying Scotsman

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  2017: Gala guest SR Maunsell V Schools class 30926 Repton
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  2017: Sentinel 9387 Vertical Boiler Tank engine, now named 'Marjorie', at Sandford Station Railway Heritage Centre in Somerset.
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  2018: Gala guest LMS Stanier Royal Scot 7P Class 46100 Royal Scot

See also

On this day in SVR history

← September 22 - September 24 →

Severn Valley Railway

London & North Eastern Railway

Great Western Railway

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

Locomotive with a 2-6-2 wheel configuration

John Farquharson McIntosh, Chief Mechanical Engineer (CME) of the Caledonian Railway 1895-1914

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.

Southern Railway

Richard Maunsell, Chief Mechanical Engineer (CME) of the South Eastern and Chatham Railway from 1913-1923, and of the Southern Railway 1923-1937.

London Midland & Scottish Railway

William Stanier, Chief Mechanical Engineer (CME) of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway 1932-1944

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.