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==Depot Codes (Incomplete article)==
 
===GWR Shed Codes===
The Severn Valley and Tenbury branches were mainly served by the following sheds<ref>[http://www.greatwestern.org.uk/m_in_gwr_sheds.htm Great Western & Western Region Locomotive Depots on www.greatwestern.org.uk]</ref>:
{| class="wikitable"
! Shed !! GWR Division!! GWR Shed No !! Code !! Notes
|-
|Shrewsbury||Wolverhampton Division||134||SALOP / SLP ||
|-
|Ludlow||Sub-shed of Shrewsbury||84||SALOP / SLP || Served the Tenbury Branch.<ref name=TBR>[[Bibliography#Books|Beddoes & Smith (1995)]] p. 56.</ref> Two Tenbury-based daily Kidderminster-Woofferton passenger services were replaced by Diesel railcar services in 1941.<ref>[[Bibliography#Books|Turley (2005)]] p. 39.</ref>
|-
|Worcester||Worcester Division||215||WOS|| Diesel railcars in the Kidderminster area were based at Worcester from introduction in 1941, other local sheds having no servicing facilities.<ref>[[Bibliography#Books|Turley (2005)]] p. 41.</ref>
|-
|Leominster||Sub-shed of Worcester||155||WOS||Served the Tenbury Branch<ref name=TBR/>
|-
|[[Kidderminster Shed|Kidderminster]]||Worcester Division||125||KDR||
|-
|Stourbridge||Wolverhampton Division||154||STB||
|-
|}
 
===BR Shed Codes===
Shortly after nationalisation, the newly formed British Railways devised a system of identifying all locomotive depots by a unique code.
 
====Kidderminster====
*85D From February 1 1950 to September 9 1960<ref name=RCBR>[http://www.railwaycodes.org.uk/depots/depots3.shtm BR Shed Codes Codes on www.railwaycodes.org.uk]</ref>
*84G From September 10 1960 to August 31 1963<ref name=RCBR/>
*2P From September 1 1963 to July 31 1964<ref name=RCBR/>
 
====Cleobury Mortimer (Sub-shed of Kidderminster)====
*85D From February 1 1950 to September 9 1960<ref name=WBR>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_British_Railways_shed_codes BR Shed Codes Codes on Wikipedia]</ref>
*84G From September 10 1960 to 1962<ref name=WBR/>
 
===BR Carriage & Wagon Repair Depot Codes===
 
====Kidderminster====
*2631 From late 1960s<ref>[http://www.railwaycodes.org.uk/depots/depots2.shtm BR four digit Pre-TOPS depot codes on www.railwaycodes.org.uk]</ref>
 
===BR train maintenance depots===
 
====Kidderminster (Severn Valley Railway)====
*KR From 1973<ref>[http://www.railwaycodes.org.uk/depots/depots1.shtm BR two character TOPS Codes on www.railwaycodes.org.uk]</ref>
 
===TOPS Location Codes===
 
*65941 Kidderminster Severn Valley Railway<ref>[http://www.railwaycodes.org.uk/crs/CRSk.shtm Location Codes on www.railwaycodes.org.uk]</ref>
*65942 Kidderminster Severn Valley Railway Diesel depot
==See also==

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