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[[File:SVR Engine Shed - geograph.org.uk - 864988.jpg|thumb|300px|right|View of The Engine House from Highley Station (Wikimedia Commons)]]
The Engine House at Highley is the SVR's main museum, Visitor and [[SVR Education Services|Education Centre]]. It is situated approximately 200 yards from [[Highley | Highley Station]], on the site of the former sidings of [[Collieries served by the Severn Valley Railway#Highley Colliery | Highley Colliery]]. The [[Kidderminster Railway Museum]] is the other major museum on the railway, being run by separate charitable organisation.
Entry to the Engine House is usually free with possession of a valid ‘Freedom of the line’ ticket or Annual Family Pass; otherwise an admission fee is payable.
Also based here are the [[SVR Archives]].
==History==
In October 2017 the [[Severn Valley Railway Charitable Trust Ltd|Charitable Trust]] announced it was establishing an In Memory Garden for SVR supporters, close to the Engine House. The area is directly beneath the gallery, on level ground below the retaining slope. Its design has been generously donated by Arup’s landscape architecture team. It will also feature an indoor commemorative area on the balcony inside The Engine House. This will be a screened-off area, with scrolls of honour and a memory book.<ref>[https://svrtrust.org.uk/downloads/Platform%202018%20web%20version-1.pdf 'Platform' magazine, 2018 Issue 4, p.16]</ref>
Initial work involved fencing off the area and creating a set of access steps, before landscaping and designing the garden layout and planting scheme.<ref>[https://www.svrlive.com/memorial-garden Memorial Garden - Landscaping garden design expertise needed, SVRLive, 16 October 2017] (Retrieved 14 July 2018</ref>. By July 2018 vegetation clearance was underway.
===Anderson shelter===
[[Severn Valley Railway Timeline 2010-2019#2018|In 2018]] the Postcode Lottery awarded a grant for the construction of a shelter to enhance the [[SVR Education Services|facilities for children to learn]] about air raids and experience.
==Gallery==
