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1879 floods
[[File:46521_20120128.jpg|thumb|300px|right|46521 (2012)]]On {{PAGENAME}} in SVR history.
*1879 During floods and storms, Bewdley church and goods station were struck by lightning and the "coils of the telegraph instruments at Bewdley were fused"<ref>[https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001652/18790819/008/0002 Globe Tuesday 19 August 1879 on the British Newspaper Archive]</ref>
*1974 Newly-restored [[46521 |Ivatt 2 46521]] made her inaugural journey in SVR preservation, hauling the 5.20 p.m. from Bridgnorth to Bewdley.<ref>SVR News 34</ref> The loco was resident on the SVR between 1971 and 2001.
*1991 [[50035]] was the first Class 50 to be preserved, being acquired by [[Class 50 Alliance Limited|The Fifty Fund (now Class 50 Alliance)]] and handed over by Network SouthEast at the Old Oak Common Open Day held on 17-18 August.<ref>[http://www.bropendays.co.uk/1965_1993.html BR Open Days] (Retrieved 18 August 2019)</ref>
