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The SVR's stance on reopening this section is not straightforward. Its website states: "the railway land north of Bridgnorth has been long since sold, and there is now no possibility of Severn Valley trains reaching Ironbridge and Shrewsbury ever again."<ref>[http://www.svr.co.uk/Consolidation.aspx SVR Website] (retrieved 5 April 2018)</ref> However its official Souvenir Guide, after listing some of the obstacles needing to be addressed, ends "So, never say never...".<ref>[[Bibliography#SVR Publications|Souvenir Guide Ninth Edition, 2012, p. 30.]]</ref> In 2002 SVR News reported that at a recent [[SVR(H)]] Board meeting Paul Fathers had agreed to monitor developments in the north and keep the Board informed.<ref>SVR News 142 p. 67.</ref> The railway has at other occasions given its position as a 'watching brief', it will not on its own to seek to reopen the line, but possibly is open to providing technical support to any plans to reopen.
==Relationship with the Telford Steam Railway==
The Trust is independent from the Telford Steam Railway ('TSR').
In late 2018 the TSR launched a website "[https://steamingtoironbridge.co.uk/ Steaming to Ironbridge]" with its own proposals for a connection to Ironbridge. The TSR proposals would use a narrow gauge tramway (rather than a standard gauge railway) between Ironbridge and a planned central station on the former power station site at Buildwas. The reasons given for this choice include the ability to share the trackbed with the existing footpath, the need for minimal station space in Ironbridge leaving the main car park intact, and the reduced cost of renewing/maintaining the 10-arch viaduct on the route<ref>[https://steamingtoironbridge.co.uk/phase-4-tramway/ Steaming to Ironbridge website] (retrieved 10 October 2018)</ref>.
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