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The Trust is a registered charity, No 518479. The Charity Commission records the Trust’s objectives as being “An independent museum established for the collection and conservation of relics and documents depicting the railways of the British Isles, and subsequently making them available to all those who wish to access them”.<ref>[http://apps.charitycommission.gov.uk/Showcharity/RegisterOfCharities/CharityWithoutPartB.aspx?RegisteredCharityNumber=518479&SubsidiaryNumber=0 Charity Commission]</ref>
==Grants==
On 23 May 2001 The Heritage Lottery Fund awarded the Trust £177,500 for roof and canopy restoration, to provide additional storage space for the museum's collections and release further floorspace for new displays.<ref>[https://www.hlf.org.uk/our-projects/kidderminster-railway-museum-roof-and-canopy-restoration HLF] (retrieved 27 December 2016)</ref>
==Collection==
The museum has on display an extensive collection of smaller historical railway items such as totem boards, signalling equipment and locomotive name and number plates. The Museum museum also houses the former Midland Railway booking office from Alvechurch. Working ‘hands on’ exhibits include a telephone exchange and signal frame.
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==Events==
The museum arranges a regular programme of films, with guest presenters showing historic railway transport films. It operates signalling weekends using its large collection of signalling equipment in the country for basic tuition before going on to work in one of the SVR's signal boxes when steam trains are running. Other events include railway photograph fairs and "Photographs on the road". The museum also hosts meetings of groups associated with the SVR.
The Guild of Railway Artists stages its bi-annual art exhibition at Kidderminster Railway Museum. Frank Hodges, chief executive officer of the Guild was reported by the Kidderminster Shuttle in 2014: "The Guild looks upon the museum as its home venue having exhibited some ten times since its first event there in 1994.”<ref>[http://www.kidderminstershuttle.co.uk/news/local/11433197.Railway_art_comes_to_Kidderminster/ Kidderminster Shuttle 27 August 2014] (retrieved 27 December 2016)</ref>. A further exhibition was held from 27 August to 2 October 2016.<ref>[http://forum.svra.org.uk/viewtopic.php?t=3712 Unofficial SVR Forum] (retrieved 27 December 2016)</ref>
==Links==
[http://www.krm.org.uk/ Kidderminster Railway Museum web sitewebsite][http://www.railart.co.uk/ The Guild of Railway Artists' website]
