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When the GWR began the [[Bridgnorth steam bus service | steam bus service]] between [[Bridgnorth]] and [[Wolverhampton]] in 1904, they built a small garage at Bridgnorth Station to house one of the buses. It was a steel and wooden framed building with corrugated iron cladding, measuring approximately 30ft long by 10ft wide. The original location of the garage, with its black cladding, can be seen behind the pannier tank in the Sellick photograph below. It is now part of the [[Bridgnorth#Bridgnorth_Development_Project|Bridgnorth Development Project]] site.
The garage was still in situ when the SVR acquired Bridgnorth, and can also be seen in David Cooke’s photograph in 1968. Although built for the early single deck steam and motor buses, it was sufficiently tall to take a double decker bus, and in the 1970’s 1970s was home to a [[Heritage buses and other vehicles#Leyland_Titan_KPT_909|preserved Weardale Leyland Titan bus]]. After being dismantled, the remains of the garage were later moved to [[Kidderminster]], and by June 2010 the [[Friends of Kidderminster Town Station]] had begun a project to re-erect it in the compound on the site of the old coal yard.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20190923041105/http://www.kfriends.org.uk/magazine/garage102.htm. FOKT News June 2010]</ref>
Much of the original building survived for re-use, although new corrugated iron cladding has been used in place of the original which had become too rusty. The garage now provides a home for the Friends' Scammel Mechanical Horse. It can be seen from the railway when leaving Kidderminster, between the end of the SVR car park and the [[Kidderminster Footbridge]].
