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On 12 May 1999 the SVR announced that it had been awarded a grant of £1.757m towards construction of the carriage shed, at the time the largest grant made to a heritage railway. Planning permission was granted on 22 June. Further fundraising secured another £170k within 2 months of the grant, reaching 75% of the partnership funding required and allowing contracts to be signed with the design and build contractors Tarmac Building (later Carillion).<ref>SVR News 130</ref>
Construction by the contractors began on 20 September 1999 with erection of steelwork beginning on 20 September. On 1 November the partnership funding target of £586k (25% of the total cost) was achieved.<ref>SVR News 131</ref> Construction was completed with the keys being formally handed to the SVR by the Carillion site manager on 19 April 2000; the same day saw the first rake of carriages propelled onto Road 1. Track installation inside the shed by the P Way department was completed by the end of June 2000.<ref>SVR News 133</ref> Additional The SVRA 'Millennium raffle' in April 2000 raised around a further £18,000 for the project. This and other additional fundraising secured sufficient money to allow SVR(H) to announce at the 2000 AGM that the extension to Kidderminster Footbridge would go ahead. However the 2000 boiler crisis led to these plans being put on hold,<ref>SVR News 133, 134</ref> since when they have never been resurrected.
A plaque on the side of the shed commemorates its formal opening by HRH The Duke of Gloucester on 29 November 2001.
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Carriage_Shed_Plaque_20180408.jpg|Commemorative plaque
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