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On 6 September 2016 the HLF rejected a bid from the [[Severn Valley Railway Charitable Trust Ltd]] for £902,200 but "agreed the project as a medium priority for support" and "noted that a strengthened resubmission that addressed [its] concerns would be welcomed." The concerns were "that community engagement and interpretation plans were not sufficiently strong."<ref>Minutes - Heritage Lottery Fund: Committee for West Midlands Meeting on 6 September 2016</ref>
===2017-18 HLF National Lottery Heritage Fund bid==={{As of|20182019|1102}} the Trust has another bid seeking £927,000 from the HLF for a large part of the quoted £1.324 million total project cost. In June 2017 the Trust secured £71,800 of HLF financial backing to develop its bid. The SVR has the challenge raising matched funding of £397,000 (originally £275,000) for which the Trust is co-ordinating efforts, and for which it has launched an appeal. The Trust submitted its bid on 26 October 2018, and hopes to receive HLF’s The National Lottery Heritage Fund (formerly HLF)’s final decision in January March 2019. Preliminary structual investigations in Summer 2018 revealed two gas mains, one live, which increased the cost and SVR's contribution. If successful in securing HLF support, the SVR would intend to undertake this urgent project in two stages, with the first stage from December 2019 to April 2020 necessitating closure of the railway between Bewdley and Kidderminster from the end of Santa services until Easter. Subsequent works will involve replacing damaged brickwork and corbelling, and repointing throughout.<ref>[http://svrtrust.org.uk/our-projects/falling-sands-viaduct.html 'Falling Sands Viaduct', Severn Valley Railway Charitable Trust website] (Retrieved 20 November 2018)</ref><ref>Shareholders' Newsletter, undated</ref><ref>SVR News 203, 204</ref><ref>[https://www.svrlive.com/epnovember18 Express Points November 2018]</ref>
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