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==Diesel Locomotives==
*'''17 ‘Highflyer’''': John Fowler & Co 150hp 0-4-0DM, Works No 22912/1940, ex Royal Ordnance Factories and Longmoor Military Railway. Lent to the SVR by Dart Valley Railway in 1971 for use on Engineers trains, later purchased. Scrapped between August 1977 by summer 1981<ref name="SVR60">SVR News Summer 1981 page 17, confirms that Mary and July 1980 Yellow Peril were sold, Highflyer engine had blown apart.</ref> after a piston "escaped" through the engine block.*'''D577 'Mary'''': Hudswell Clarke 100/120hp 0-4-0DM, Works No D577/1932, ex Staveley Lime Works. Arrived 1972. Left between August 1977 and July 1980Sold by summer 1981<ref name="SVR60" />, currently at Middleton Railway.*'''402812 ‘Yellow Peril’''': Ruston & Hornsby 4wDM, Works No 402812/1957, ex British Steel Corp., Wolverhampton. Arrived September 1975 for use on Engineers trains, Left between August 1977 and July 1980sold by summer 1981<ref name="SVR60" />. Last known at the Swanage Railway, believed scrapped.<ref>[http://www.uklocos.com/scrapped-results.asp?action=display&Id=1053 UKLocos web site] Retrieved 18 March 2015</ref>
*'''D7633''': Beyer Peacock Class 25 Bo-Bo, ex British Railways. Acquired by the SVR P-Way Diesel Fund, arrived in January 1988. Sold to the Dean Forest Railway in 2003.
*'''408297''': Ruston & Hornsby 165hp 0-4-0DM, Works No 408297/1957. One of four locos bought from Patent Shaft Steelworks, Wednesbury in 1980 (of which D2961 is still at the Railway). Cannibalised for parts.
