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The first generation diesel railcars were used around the Kidderminster / Bewdley / Hartlebury triangle from 1936.<ref>[[Bibliography#Books|Beddoes & Smith (1995)]] p. 116.</ref> However they were not then used on the Tenbury Branch as they were not capable of hauling an extra coach on the steeper gradients involved. The advent of the second generation railcars saw them introduced there from 18 August 1941.<ref>[[Bibliography#Books|Beddoes & Smith (1995)]] p. 133.</ref>
Other GWR railcars were also used in service on the Severn Valley and Tenbury branches. In the early 1940s these included streamlined railcars numbers 5, 6 and 7.<ref name = "Turley" /> A photograph by Mike Cuthbert shows W7W at Bewdley on 14 September 1957. SVR News 43 includes a picture of a burned out railcar in the up sidings at [[Bridgnorth]] following a serious fire. The caption identifies this as W7W in August 1956, although it is probably W10W which was destroyed in a fire at Bridgnorth on 9 March 1956. W7W survived till 1959.<ref>[http://www.greatwestern.org.uk/aec4.htm Great Western Archive]</ref>
Apart from Railcar 22, later examples known to have worked in the area in the 1940s include 14, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30 and 32.<ref name = "Turley" />
