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Info on early history of watering locos at Bridgnorth
File: Pan_Pudding_Hill_20150503.jpg | Pan Pudding Hill, with the public viewing area below
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===Locomotive watering facilities===
BR had already demolished the water tank on Pan Pudding Hill and the watering columns on platforms 1 and 2 before the fledgling SVR Society made contact in July 1965 asking them to stop demolition works while negotiations to buy the line took place. The SVR Society acquired replacement ‘rail level’ water columns from nearby Stourbridge MPD, and a replacement water tank from Henley in Arden, the latter arriving in August 1970. These were installed during the following year – until they were commissioned locomotives were watered at Eardington where possible, or otherwise from a simple hosepipe connected to a nearby tap at Bridgnorth.
In October 1972, the platform water columns from Henley were obtained with a view to replace those previously obtained from Stourbridge.
==Bridgnorth history before preservation==
