July 3

On July 3 in SVR history.

• 1860 An Act of Parliament authorised the building of the Tenbury & Bewdley Railway.
• 1915 The GWR carried out structural repairs to Arley Station Bridge which included a small stone plaque bearing this date.
• 1979 Wantage Tramway 0-4-0WT 'Shannon' was filmed at Victoria Bridge and Sterns for 'God's Wonderful Railway'. The locomotive was borrowed from the GWS at Didcot but not steamed while at the SVR.
• 1991 The Fifty Fund paid £16535 for 50035 Ark Royal

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