Severn Valley Railway Timeline 1987
Severn Valley Railway Timeline 1987
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This page provides a timeline of events on the Severn Valley Railway during 1987. Kidderminster Town won the year's "Best Preserved Station" award, not bad considering it was less than 3 years old at the time!
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Mock poster from Bridgnorth, 1987
March 1987 edit
3205 left the SVR, 20 years to the day since arriving as the first locomotive.
April 1987 edit
45699 Galatea arrived by low loader from Carnforth. Galatea was regarded as a source of spares for 45690 Leander.
May 1987 edit
The May Diesel Extravaganza saw visits from a ‘Deltic’ and a Class 44 ‘Peak’. Operation of the latter was interesting; “If you don’t get up enough speed, it overheats, and if you get up too much speed, it blows up!”
Summer 1987 edit
SVR locomotives 7819 Hinton Manor, 75069 and 46443 provided the motive power for BR’s Cardigan Bay Express summer season. Pannier tank 7760 from Tyseley and 0-6-2T 5619 from the Telford Steam Railway spent summer at the SVR as cover for their absence, participating in the Summer Steam Gala before departing in August and September respectively.
Bridgnorth District Council announced plans for a country park at Alveley. The SVR sold an area of surplus land for incorporation into the park.
September 1987 edit
53809, a former Somerset & Dorset Railway engine then based at the Midland-Railway Centre at Butterley was booked as the guest engine, but did not arrive in time. Taw Valley hauled a ten coach staff special on Saturday evening as its first train following restoration.
October 1987 edit
Having failed to appear at the Steam Gala, 53809 worked services during the Diesel Weekend on 10-11 October[1].
December 1987 edit
Kidderminster signal box was commissioned, together with the loop between Kidderminster Footbridge and Hoo Road Bridge. Working over the section to Bewdley was by Acceptance Lever rather than by Electric Token in part due to the distance from the signal box to the end of the loop. The loop also saw the SVR’s first use of an electric points machine, rather than direct connection to the signal box using rods.
Steam locomotives used edit
A table of steam locomotives used and their mileages can be found on the Steam Locomotive Mileages page.
See also edit
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