Severn Valley Railway Timeline 1978

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1978 timetable

This page provides a timeline of events on the Severn Valley Railway during 1978. During the year SVR based locos were beginning to provide locomotives to work on main line rail tours while stabled at depots such as Hereford. Visitor numbers to the SVR increased; for the first time the railway sold more than 150,000 tickets in a year.

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  1978 timetable

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January 1978

4150 arrived on 19 January, having previously been at the Dean Forest Railway. The Rolling Stock Committee decided that 4150 should be the last Barry Scrapyard engine to come in, as there were now 33 locomotives stationed at the railway.

April 1978

A naming ceremony was held for WD 193, which was given the name ‘Shropshire’.

Raveningham Hall became the first SVR-based locomotive to haul a main line tour. Leaving the SVR on 7 April, it worked the F&W Railtours “Cathedrals Express” from Hereford to Chester and back the following day.

May 1978

70000 Britannia returned to steam after 12 years, and was renamed on 20 May by Mr R A Riddles, the locomotive’s designer.

December 1978

GWR Pannier 3612 was purchased from Barry Scrapyard for spares.

Steam locomotives used

A table of steam locomotives used and their mileages can be found on the Steam Locomotive Mileages page.

See also

• The Severn Valley Railway in preservation

Severn Valley Railway

William Dean, Chief Locomotive Engineer of the Great Western Railway 1877-1902

Robert Arthur "Robin" Riddles, Member of the Railway Executive for Mechanical and Electrical Engineering responsible for the design of the British Rail Standard Class locomotives