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Severn Valley Railway Timeline 2020-2029

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On 29 December snowfall resulted in the day's services bring cancelled
:By 6 August the Fight Back Fund reached £900,000.
:From 13 August locos in service [[2857]], [[7714]] and [[75069]] carried wreaths in memory and support of those who were involved in the previous day's collision at Stonehaven, Aberdeenshire.<ref name="blsep20">[https://www.svrlive.com/blsep20 Branch Lines, September 2020]</ref>
:Access to the [[Bewdley South signal box#Signalling_controlled_from_the_Box|large bracket outside of Bewdley South signal box]] was prohibited due to rot, with a temporary replacement prepared.<ref>[https://www.svrlive.com/epsep20 Express Points newsletter, September 2020] (Retrieved 29 August 2020)</ref>.
:During a test run on 24th August with [[1501]], a crack was discovered in the right hand return crank. Luckily no further damage was caused.<ref name="blsep20"/>
:Restoration work to repair the brickwork at [[Falling Sands Viaduct]] restarted after the discovery of bats<ref name="blsep20"/>.
:[[Christmas services]] ran to [[Arley]] for the Railway’s first-ever Christmas show, ''Jingle, Jangle and the Christmas Cookbook''.<ref name="bldec20"/>
:On 5 December a power-twin set of vehicles 50933 and 52064 became the first [[Class 108 DMU|DMU]] to operate for two years following bogie repairs, when it operated the Christmas staff train.<ref name="bldec20"/>
:On 9 December a special autotrain ran with [[GWR 1450|1450]] and [[GWR 178 Autotrailer Third]] for several trips between Bridgnorth and Highley for the [[Pull Push Limited|owner]] to mark the end of the locomotive's boiler ticket.<ref name="bldec20"/>.
:On 17 December [[4930| 4930 Hagley Hall]]’s boiler arrived back from Northern Steam Engineering following its extensive overhaul.
:On 29 December snowfall resulted in the day's services bring cancelled.
==2021==
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