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The Down Yard at [[Bewdley]] is located to the South of station, on the Down (West) side of the main line. It was formerly used for the loading and unloading of goods wagons before the closure of the line by BR. The yard is now mainly used by the [[Bewdley Carriage & Wagon Department]] for storage and repair of the SVR's [[Goods Wagons|collection of goods wagons]], and for the restoration and painting of [[carriages]], although the bulk of carriage repairs take place at [[Carriage Repair Works|Kidderminster]].

The remainder of the yard consists is made up of two through several interconnected dead end sidings. These sidings which are accessible from both ends of include the stationpaint shop, as well as a number of miscellaneous sidings. No. 1 siding runs parallel formerly used to the Down Main paint passenger and is mainly goods rolling stock but since 2017 used to store the for overhauls of [[Demonstration Goods TrainGWR 9615 Kitchen Diner First]], as well as occasionally by locomotives assigned to and then [[Bewdley MPDLNER 43612 Open Third]] or other rolling stock. No. 2 siding is adjacent There are plans to amend the track layout to eliminate the reverse move from the goods shed to No. 1 access the paint shop, and passes through instead to feed it from the [[Bewdley Goods Shed|Goods Shed]], where wagon restoration back road and install a second track. It is carried out by hoped to re-clad the [[Wagon Department]]existing shop and have a second shed over a second track. The northern part of No<ref>Haynes, M. 2 siding and its headshunt provide access to a dock platform, formerly used for loading goods wagonsBewdley Carriage Notes, now home to three [[List of shops|sales coaches]]SVR News No.199 Autumn 2017, 39</ref>

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 Mk 3a Convertible Sleeper 10696]] are used for staff accommodation at Bewdley, GWR wartime ambulance car and [[GWR 5804 98 Full Brake Third|5804]] serves which is used as a workshop and stores for spare parts.  In the apprentice group mess coachearly days of preservation it was the base for the restoration of locomotives and rolling stock, before sites at first [[Bridgnorth]] and later [[Kidderminster]] became available. Even since then, several vehicles have been restored or overhauled there and some [[List of preservation groups |preservation groups]] consider themselves to be principally based there, including [[The 2857 Society]], [[Warwickshire Industrial Locomotive Preservation Trust |WILPT]], [[The LNER Carriage Group]], [[1501 Pannier Tank Association | 1501 PTA]] and [[Great Western (SVR) Association | GW(SVR)A]]. Current restoration projects are GWR coaches [[GWR 98 2426 Toplight Full Third|2426]], [[GWR 4786 Full BrakeThird|4786]] and [[GWR 9581 Wheelchair accessible Buffet Car|9581]] which . Also undergoing overhaul is [[2047 Warwickshire | MW 2047 Warwickshire]]. Several static [[Goods Wagons | vans]] are used as a workshop stores and stores workshops for spare partssuch preservation groups.

The restoration of In 1978, SVR volunteers, working with the [[GWR Large Prairie 4150Manpower Services Commission]] is has been ongoing in the yard since 1978, with dismantled and removed a lack of funds and manpower since the 1980s resulting in slow progresstraverser from Swindon Works. A new committee took over This was then stored at [[The 4150 Fund|the 4150 FundEardington]] in 2007, and progress has recently been progressing to be used as part of a planned expansion of the carriage works at a steady rateBewdley. There are The plans to amend the track layout to eliminate the reverse move from were abandoned when the much larger [[Carriage Repair Works | goods shed to access the paint shopat Kidderminster]] became available in 1985, 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 tracktraverser was scrapped.<ref>Haynes, M., Bewdley Carriage Notes, SVR News No. 199 Autumn 2017, 39</ref>