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[[File:Bewdley_Paint_Shop_20150801.jpg|thumb|300px|right|Bewdley Paint Shop]]
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]].
==In history==
Although British Rail passenger services continued to 1970, the SVR had a presence in the yard since at least 1968. 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 Shoppaint shop, formerly used to paint passenger and goods rolling stock but since 2017 used for overhauls of [[GWR 9615 Kitchen Diner First]] and then [[LNER 43612 Open Third]]. The yard is home There are plans to amend the track layout to eliminate the reverse move from the goods shed to a number of coaches that reside there permanently: GWR sleeper coach [[GWR 2233 Corridor Brake Third|2233]] access the paint shop, and [[Mk 3a Convertible Sleeper|Mk 3a Convertible Sleeper 10696]] are used for staff accommodation at Bewdley, instead to feed it from the back road and [[GWR 98 Full Brake]] which install a second track. It is used as hoped to re-clad the existing shop and have a second shed over a workshop and stores for spare partssecond track.<ref>Haynes, M. In addition, several static [[Goods Wagons | vans]] are used as stores and workshops for [[List of preservation groups |Bewdley Carriage Notes, SVR-based preservation groups]]News No. 199 Autumn 2017, 39</ref>
The yard is home to a number of coaches that reside there permanently: GWR sleeper coach [[Ruston and Hornsby 165hp Diesel Shunter 319290GWR 2233 Corridor Brake Third|2233]] 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#2015Mk 3a Convertible Sleeper|repairs to the Elan Valley AqueductMk 3a Convertible Sleeper 10696]]are used for staff accommodation at Bewdley, which runs under the railway near and [[Folly PointGWR 98 Full Brake]]which is used as a workshop and stores for spare parts.
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.
