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On Sunday 8 September the final 6.58pm Bridgnorth to Birmingham Snow Hill train, normally a diesel railcar service, was hauled by ex-GWR pannier tanks 9624 and 4665 carrying a ‘Special Last Train’ headboard. It was followed by the last passenger service north of Bewdley, the 8.30pm Hampton Loade to Snow Hill formed of a three car diesel set.<ref name=Magner32/>
Passenger services between Shrewsbury and Bewdley ceased on 9 September 1963 as announced. Four days later on 13 September, BR posted advance notices of their proposal to end through freight services. Appeals against the proposal proved fruitless, and the last through freight train ran on 30 November Novewmber 1963.<ref name=Magner32/>
From December 1963:
The Sunday service north of Bridgnorth had ended by 1910. The traffic statistics suggest passenger numbers at most stations peaked in the 1920s before starting to fall again. The GWR added a number of halts in the 1930s in an attempt to bring more local custom to the Branch, and there were there were still five trains per day to and from Shrewsbury in 1938. The first thirty years of the 20th Century could therefore perhaps be considered the heyday of the Branch.
World War 2 saw the service reduced back to [[Timetable: Severn Valley Branch 1942|four trains per day ]] with no Sunday service. Although Sunday services south of Bridgnorth were re-introduced in the late 1940s, the weekday service remained more or less unchanged, apart from briefly becoming even worse in the late 1950s, through to closure in 1963.
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