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[[File:Platform 2 at Kidderminster Town - geograph.org.uk - 247100.jpg |thumb|300px|right | Kidderminster Carriage Repair Works (Wikimedia Commons)]]
The '''Carriage Repair Works''' is split across two main sites at [[Kidderminster]] and [[Bewdley]]. Both Repair Works works are closed to the public, except during special events such as the [[Open House Weekend]].
==Kidderminster Carriage Repair Works==
Fitting out continued through 1987 as Pickfords gradually vacated the building and offices, with the ground floor plan including a compressor room, a machine shop, a sheet metal shop (to be used as a fabrication shop) and a joinery shop. A mezzanine floor is used for storage, serviced by a goods lift. Tracks were laid into the building with [[GWR 9627 Restaurant Third]] becoming the first carriage to enter and be lifted in February 1988.<ref>SVR News 88, “North Star Carriage Works”, Colin Jenkins</ref>
The north end of the North Star Works includes a paint shop. The works is manly mainly used for lighter bodywork repairs. Rail access is via the [[Connection to Network Rail]].
The works has two dynamo test rigs, dating from around 1898, which are still in use for servicing the dynamos fitted to carriages to charge their batteries. The blue bulbs used in the test rigs, which still work, were LMS 1941 wartime issue for coach blackout precautions.<ref>Notice on the test rigs</ref> They were acquired from the LMS Wolverton Works and installed in the North Star Works during 2005-06.<ref>SVR News 152</ref>
==Bewdley Carriage and Wagon Department==
[[File:Bewdley_Paint_Shop_20150801.jpg |thumb|300px|right | Bewdley paint shop]]
Much work also takes place at [[Bewdley Carriage & Wagon Department | Bewdley]] which generally carries out heavier bodywork repairs. Bewdley also has a carriage paint shop. Carriage restoration from derelict condition by groups including the [[Great Western (SVR) Assoc.|GW(SVR)A]], [[The LNER (SVR) Coach Fund]] and [[Severn Valley Railway Charitable Trust Ltd|the Charitable Trust]] also takes place here.
==Other facilities==
Day to day maintenance, light repairs and repaints are carried out in the [[Kidderminster Carriage Shed#Carriage_repair_facility|carriage repair facility in Kidderminster Carriage Shed]].
 
Carriage restoration is also carried out in the cattle dock at [[Bridgnorth]] by the Bridgnorth Carriage and Wagon Department.
 
Carriages may be painted in the paint shop at [[Bridgnorth Loco Works]].
 
The Carriage Maintenance Store at Kidderminster, which can be seen next to the [[Diesel Depot]], was formerly the Rope Works store at the GWR’s Swindon works.<ref>SVR News 151</ref>
 
Day to day running repairs are carried out in the [[Kidderminster Carriage Shed]]. Carriage restoration is also carried out at [[Bridgnorth]].
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