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In 2000 the SVR raised further funds for that project, sufficient to allow SVR(H) to announce at the 2000 AGM that the extension to the footbridge would go ahead. However, the [[Severn Valley Railway Timeline 2000-2009#2000 | 2000 boiler crisis]] led to these plans being put on hold.<ref>SVR News 133, 134</ref>
Long-mooted plans by Network Rail to replace the footbridge received financial approval in 2021, with works programmed from December until March May 2022. The proposed design will be a single-span constructed in ‘weathering steel’ with new abutments at each end. All traces of the existing bridge will disappear including the central brick pier.<ref name=blsep21>[https://www.svrlive.com/blsep21 Branch Lines, September 2021]</ref> The SVR's aspiration to extend the bridge to give access from the station to the [[Kidderminster Turntable | turntable]] will remain an aspiration, due to a lack of funds.
The old bridge span was spans were lifted out and demolishion of the central pier were completed in the early morning of Sunday 13 February 2022. Demolishion of the west abutment was completed on Monday 14th February 2022 with the footpath embankment being dug away to allow for the excavation of the pier base.
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