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*1967 While based at Carlisle Kingsmoor Depot, future SVR resident [[43106|Ivatt Mogul 43106]] made her most northerly run into Scotland on a railtour from Carlisle to Beattock and back, becoming the last steam loco to use Beattock turntable.<ref>SVR News 12, SVR News 22</ref>
*1970 A contract was made between Shropshire County Council and the [[Severn Valley Railway Company Limited|Guarantee Company]] requiring the former to give three months' notice of their intention to begin construction of Bridgnorth Bypass.<ref>SVR News 25</ref>
*1984 [[BR Class 50 50007 Hercules|BR Class 50 50007]] was outshopped by BR in Brunswick Green and renamed Sir Edward Elgar, to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Great Western Railway.
*1987 [[Agatha Christie's Miss Marple: 4:50 from Paddington]] was first broadcast.
*1999 A charter special ran from Kidderminster to Bridgnorth with the first SVR crew drawn entirely from volunteers born after the end of the BR steam era in 1968<ref>SVR News 129</ref>.
