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== In preservation ==
The yard consists of two through sidings which are accessible from both ends of the station, as well as a number of miscellaneous sidings. No. 1 siding runs parallel to the Down Main and is mainly used to store the [[Demonstration Goods Train]], as well as occasionally by locomotives assigned to [[Bewdley MPD]] or other rolling stock. No. 2 siding is adjacent to No. 1 and passes through the [[Bewdley Goods Shed|Goods Shed]], where wagon restoration is carried out by the [[Wagon Department]]. The northern part of No. 2 siding and its headshunt provide access to a dock platform, formerly used for loading goods wagons, now home to three [[List of shops|sales coaches]]and GWR wartime ambulance car [[GWR 5804 Brake Third|5804]] which serves as the [[SVR Apprentices]] group mess coach.
The remainder of the yard is made up of several interconnected dead end sidings. These sidings include the Paint Shop, used to paint passenger and goods rolling stock. The yard is also home to a number of coaches that reside there permanently: GWR sleeper coach [[GWR 2233 Corridor Brake Third|2233]] and Mark 3 sleepers [[Mk 3a Convertible Sleeper|10569 and 10696]] are used for staff accommodation at Bewdley, GWR wartime ambulance car [[GWR 5804 Brake Third|5804]] serves as the [[SVR Apprentices]] group mess coach, and [[GWR 98 Full Brake]] which is used as a workshop and stores for spare parts.
[[Ruston and Hornsby 165hp Diesel Shunter 319290]] is the resident shunting locomotive, being used as necessary to shunt rolling stock under repair. In January and February 2015, the yard was contracted to Severn Trent Water as a staging ground for [[Severn_Valley_Railway_Timeline_2010-2019#2015|repairs to the Elan Valley Aqueduct]], which runs under the railway near [[Folly Point]].
There are plans to amend the track layout to eliminate the reverse move from the goods shed to access the paint shop, and instead to feed it from the back road and install a second track. It is hoped to re-clad the existing shop and have a second shed over a second track.<ref>Haynes, M., Bewdley Carriage Notes, SVR News No. 199 Autumn 2017, 39</ref>
In 1978, SVR volunteers, working with the [[Manpower Services Commission]], dismantled and removed a traverser from Swindon Works. This was then stored at [[Eardington]] to be used as part of a planned expansion of the carriage works at Bewdley. The plans were abandoned when the much larger [[Carriage Repair Works | goods shed at Kidderminster]] became available in 1985, and the traverser was scrapped.
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