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[[File:Wheeldrop award.jpg|thumb|300px|right|Award presented to the SVR on 1 December 2010]]On {{PAGENAME}} in SVR history.
*1853 The [[Oxford Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway]] opened throughout, including the route through [[Hartlebury]] and Kidderminster.
*1859 An accident occurred in [[Bridgnorth Tunnel]] to James Windy, a [[Railway Navvies of the SVR|Railway Navvy]].<ref>[https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000401/18591202/037/0005 Shrewsbury Chronicle - Friday 2 December 1859, on the British Newspaper Archive]</ref>
*1869 The GWR approved the construction of a [[Highley#Cattle dock|cattle pen at Highley]].<ref>[[Bibliography#Books|Marshall (1989)]] p. 99.</ref>
*[[Severn Valley Railway Timeline 1970-1979#1975|1975]] A major repair to [[Oldbury Viaduct]] began.
*2007 [[Santa's Grotto ]] was based at Bewdley, the line north of there still being closed following the 2007 flood damage.<ref>SVR News 159</ref>*2008 [[GWR 9084 First Sleeper]] returned to the SVR following substatial contract repairs at Ramparts in Derby.
*2010 The SVR was presented with the National Railway Heritage Awards FirstGroup Craft Skills Award for work undertaken on installation of the wheeldrop facility at Bridgnorth<ref>SVR News 172</ref>.
