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Severn Valley Railway Timeline 1970-1979

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==1978==
[[File:1978 timetable002.jpg |thumb|200px|right|1978 timetable]]
In 1978 [[Severn Valley Railway|SVR]] based locos were beginning to provide locomotives to work on main line rail tours while stabled at depots such as Hereford. Visitor numbers to the SVR increase; for the first time the railway sold more than 150,000 tickets in a year.
 
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1978 timetable001.jpg|1978 timetable
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'''January 1978''': [[GWR Large Prairie 4150|4150]] arrived on 19 January, having previously been at the Dean Forest Railway<ref>4150 Fund</ref>. The Rolling Stock Committee decided that 4150 should be the last [[Barry Scrapyard]] engine to come in, as there were now 33 locomotives stationed at the railway.
'''December 1978''': [[GWR Pannier 3612]] was purchased from [[Barry Scrapyard]] for spares.
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==1979==
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