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The Trust submitted its bid on 26 October 2018 and on 25 March 2019 announced the award of a further £853,800 grant from The National Lottery Heritage Fund which together with the earlier grant took the total amount of its funding to £925,600. The grant, along with other funds raised, will be used to restore Falling Sands Viaduct and to launch an exciting programme of community engagement and exhibitions that will explore the Railway’s early history. In August 2019 the Trust unveiled a large donation wall at [[The Engine House]] acknowledging the individuals, organisations and businesses who had donated to the "Helping Hands for Falling Sands" appeal.
Repair work commenced in January 2020 and will , to be fully completed by the autumnin two phases.<ref>[https://www.svr.co.uk/NewsItem.aspx?a=875 SVR website]</ref> Previous announcements suggest the SVR would intend to undertake this urgent project in two stages, with the . The first stage to April 2020 necessitating necessitated closure of the railway between Bewdley and Kidderminster from the end of [[Christmas services]] until Easter: works were essentially complete at the interruption of works in March by [[2020 coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic|coronavirus disease (COVID-19)]], although track was not joined and signalling not yet in place. Subsequent works will involve While the railway remained closed Phase 2 from May 2020 involved replacing damaged brickwork and corbelling, and repointing throughout.<ref>[http://svrtrust.org.uk/our-projects/falling-sands-viaduct.html 'Falling Sands Viaduct', Severn Valley Railway Charitable Trust website] (Retrieved 20 November 2018)</ref><ref>Shareholders' Newsletter, undated</ref><ref>SVR News 203, 204</ref><ref>[https://www.svrlive.com/epnovember18 Express Points November 2018]</ref>
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File:Falling Sands 2020 repairs 1.jpg | View of the viaduct in January 2020 with the infill removed.
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