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Added 2020 capital spend
|New catering and toilets||Included||Phase I, reduced height and size||Phase I||Phase I|| ||Opened January 2019. Non-uniformed staff catering from 2018 included in the Graham Hill building (next to the Boilershop)
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|Refurbished station|| Included ||Phase I||Phase III||Phase IV||Phase I || In November 2016 work was continuing on detailed plans for the refurbishment of the existing station, with the contract for the remaining works of the first phase to be signed in January 2017.<ref>SVR Live</ref> In September 2018 plans and costs were incomplete and "will inevitably take a period of time to reconcile". Works were not to begin before Winter 2019/20 to develop the plans, apply for funding and a period of calm.<ref>NBI September 2018</ref> In October 2020 it required detailed plans to be drawn up before going for confirmed costings.<ref name="bloct20"/> In June 2021 the SVR applied for Listed building alterations in association with the conservation, renovation and reordering of Bridgnorth station, including reconstruction of the former parcels office and change of use to a shop.<ref name=blaug21>[https://www.svrlive.com/blaug21 Branch Lines, August 2021]</ref>(see 'Milestones' below)
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|New car park in fields|| Included ||Phase II||Phase II||Phase II|| || Opened December 2018
* January 2019 the new Bridgnorth Refreshment Room opened daily during closed season.<ref>[https://www.facebook.com/RailwaymansArms/photos/a.1457434694370776/2055781847869388/?type=3&theater Railwayman's Arms Facebook 26 January 2019]</ref> The official opening was 4 April.<ref>[https://www.svrlive.com/grandopening 'SVR Shareholder Event 2019', SVRLive, 22 February 2019] (Retrieved 23 February 2019)</ref>
*On 12 March 2019 the planning application for the proposed relocation of the turntable was resubmitted. Approval was granted on 30 April 2019.<ref>[https://pa.shropshire.gov.uk/online-applications/ Shropshire Planning] Ref:19/01151/FUL</ref>
*In June 2021 the SVR applied for Listed building alterations in association with the conservation, renovation and reordering of Bridgnorth station, including reconstruction of the former parcels office and change of use to a shop.<ref name=blaug21>[https://www.svrlive.com/blaug21 Branch Lines, August 2021]</ref>
SVR(H) Annual Reports give the total capital sums spent on the Bridgnorth project to the end of 2019 2020 as £3,202k 236k comprising:
*2015: £90k
*2016: £243k
*2018: £1,693k (principally £1,188k refreshment room/toilet block and £493k new car park/access roads)
*2019: £625k (final payments and retention monies for the refreshment room/toilet block and new car park/access roads)
*2020: £17,289 on the refreshment room, disabled toilet block, car park and access roads.<ref>SVR(H) Financial Statements for period ending 3 January 2021</ref>
In October 2019 the SVR issued an update suggesting the next phase (the Bridgnorth Turntable pit, restoration of the Turntable, renewal of track work in Bridgnorth yard and the provision of a new loco pit) would be delayed until further quotes were obtained and plans developed. The full announcement may be read on SVRLive [https://www.svrlive.com/post/bridgnorth-development-update-oct19 here]. Previous updates on this project including pictures of the work in progress can be found on the [https://www.svrlive.com/bridgnorth-development SVRLive Bridgnorth Development page].
A year laterIn October 2020, the SVR announced that there was £264,000 remaining share monies, which was ring-fenced for the remaining phase I of the project (the Bridgnorth station building conservation and extension of the bar). It required detailed plans to be drawn up before going for confirmed costings. Phase II of the project, which includes the turntable and renewal of track work in Bridgnorth yard along with the provision of a new loco pit, will follow, but there will be a need to raise further finance, once Phase I is completed.<ref name="bloct20"/>
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