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Add Winter 2023 to passenger figures
*'''2019''' Reintroduction of an Autumn Diesel Gala with home locos only.
*'''2020''' No galas took place due to the [[2020 coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic]]
*'''2023''' The spring diesel festival took the theme of 'Celebrating five decades of diesel preservation' after [[BR Class 42 D821 Greyhound]] entered preservation in 1973. The first large diesel preserved was the prototype Deltic as a static exhibit in 1963, and the first mainline locomotive ex-LMS 0-6-0DM 7401 in June 1960, hauling trains that summer at the Middleton Railway. The first Winter gala took place, a one-day event in the week after Christmas, mostly using the home fleet.
==Passenger numbers==
| 2022 Spring || style="text-align:right;" | 4,500|| <ref name=NBI>Internal NBI</ref> ||
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| 2022 Autumn ||style="text-align:right;" | 2,806|| <ref>[https://www.svrlive.com/bloct22 Branch Lines October 2022]</ref> || Plus significant numbers of Fare-paying passengers, not counting shareholders travelling on their passes and or passengers using complimentary tickets.
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| 2023 Spring ||style="text-align:right;" | >6,500 516 || <ref>[https://www.railadvent.co.uk/2023/05/severn-valley-railways-diesel-festival-breaks-loco-and-visitor-records.html Booth, Janine, 'Severn Valley Railway’s Diesel Festival breaks loco and visitor records', RailAdvent website, 23 May 2023] (Retrieved 24 May 2023)</ref> || More than 6,500 tickets sold across the four days, not counting shareholders using travelling on their passes or passengers using complimentary tickets. This is the highest attendance at an SVR diesel enthusiast event.
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| 2023 Autumn ||style="text-align:right;" | >3,660661|| || Fare-paying passengers.|-| 2023 Winter ||style="text-align:right;" | ~1,200|| <ref>The Railway Magazine, February 2024</ref> ||
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