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Lighting installed 2019

[[File: Donkey_Gallops_20150426.jpg |thumb|300px|right| The Donkey GallopsGallop in 2015]]The ‘Donkey Gallop(s)’ is the nickname of the irregular flight of steps leading from the [[Bridgnorth | Bridgnorth Station]] car park near [[Bridgnorth#The_Railwayman.27s_Arms|'The Railwayman’s Arms']] down to the [[Engine Shed Underpass]].

It The “Civil Engineering and Building Department” was closed for the duration of the [[Bridgnorth#Bridgnorth Development Project|Bridgnorth Development Project]], during which enquiries from the public showed that the steps formed in 1985 and [[Bridgnorth#Footbridge_outside_Bridgnorth_Station| footbridge outside Bridgnorth Station]] are used as a route managed by local residents from Oldbury Road to High TownJohn Garrad. During At the closure volunteers prepared the former disabled toilet/ shower room at the north end first meeting on 13 July, seven members of the original station building team travelled to accept electric/gas/telecoms services Bridgnorth and decided that were bought up the Donkey Gallopwould be a suitable small first project for the new Department.<ref>[http:SVR News 76, 79, 80<//wwwref> The Gallop was designed by Cedric Jameson and built by Neil Butler, Stephen Baker and Paul Wakelam, with £750 being spent on the materials.svrliveThe completed Gallop was pictured in SVR News in Autumn 1987.com/bridgnorth-development Bond C., 8 September 2017, SVRLive]<ref>SVR News 85</ref>

The Gallop was closed between November 2016 and December 2018 while work took place on the first phase of the [[Bridgnorth#Bridgnorth Development Project|Bridgnorth Development Project]]. During that time enquiries from the public showed that the steps and [[Bridgnorth#Footbridge_outside_Bridgnorth_Station| footbridge outside Bridgnorth Station]] are used as a route by local residents from Oldbury Road to High Town. During the closure volunteers prepared the former disabled toilet/ shower room at the north end of the original station building to accept electric/gas/telecoms services that were bought up the Donkey Gallop.<ref>[https://www.svrlive.com/bridgnorth-development Bond C., 8 September 2017, SVRLive]</ref> Original features shown on a GWR plan of the site included lighting columns along the path to illuminate the steps along with spear top gates at the top and bottom. When the originals were removed is unknown but the Development plans envisage replacing these features.<ref>[httphttps://www.svrlive.com/bridgnorth-development Bond C., 9 October 2017, SVRLive]</ref>Lighting was reinstated in 2019 as installed elsewhere on the site, using period new GWR no 2 lampposts with associated luminaires to match the original gas fittings, all undertaken by suitably qualified volunteers with funds raised locally<ref>Bridgnorth SVR Facebook post 11 September 2019</ref><ref>[https://www.svrlive.com/blmar21 Branch Lines March 2021]</ref>.

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==Links==

[http://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/acbe94_c524eb55a4754842b857304deef4797a.pdf Transport Statement Ref 5517/001/R01 Rev A, January 2016, Robert West Consulting Engineers](Retrieved 2 January 2018)</ref>

 

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