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Kidderminster Carriage Shed is located on the Kidderminster site out of sight from the Station platforms. The shed is both a carriage storage and maintenance building, and was constructed between July 1999 and April 2000 with financial assistance of £1,757,000 from the [[:Category:Lottery funding#National_Lottery_Heritage_Fund|Heritage Lottery Fund]].<ref>SVR News 130 onwards</ref>

Following the successful [[The development of Kidderminster Town Station|extension to Kidderminster and completion of the first phases of the new station building]], new plans for a carriage shed at Kidderminster emerged. An application to the Heritage Lottery Fund titled the ‘SVR Heritage Project’ was submitted on 30 April 1997 seeking funding of £6.5m. The carriage shed was to be a traditional style building, while the application also included a locomotive display building for both steam and diesel locomotives, an extension to [[Kidderminster Footbridge ]] to allow better road and pedestrian access to the site, and a 10-year carriage restoration plan. A consequence of the application was that the articles of association of [[SVR(H)]] were amended to become a non-profit distributing organisation in order to qualify for lottery money.<ref>SVR News 123-124</ref>

Fundraising including an [[SVRA]] raffle had raised over £100,000 by spring 1998. However the HLF requested a scaled-down application which was submitted on 12 August 1998 at a value of £2.4m. Plans for the locomotive display building were dropped, while the carriage shed became the modern design with a single span curved roof eventually built. The footbridge extension and restoration of carriages were still included, although ultimately these too were dropped.<ref>SVR News 128-129</ref> Peter Lyons, a Senior Partner at International Architects Peter Hing & Jones of Birmingham was appointed architect. This was constructed on the sloping site of the goodswagon marshalling yard and involved great expertise sas it was the only building he had designed which was not vertical due to it being at right angles to the gradient.<ref>Moreton, Barry, Peter Lyons' obituary NBI, December 2022</ref>

Construction by the contractors began on 20 September 1999 with erection of steelwork beginning on 20 September. On 1 November the partnership funding target of £586k (25% of the total cost) was achieved.<ref>SVR News 131</ref> Construction was completed with the keys being formally handed to the SVR by the Carillion site manager on 19 April 2000; the same day saw the first rake of carriages propelled onto Road 1. Track installation inside the shed by the P Way department was completed by the end of June 2000.<ref>SVR News 133</ref>  Additional The SVRA 'Millennium raffle' in April 2000 raised around a further £18,000 for the project. This and other additional fundraising secured sufficient money to allow SVR(H) to announce at the 2000 AGM that the extension to Kidderminster Footbridge would go ahead. However the 2000 boiler crisis led to these plans being put on hold,<ref>SVR News 133, 134</ref> since when they have never been resurrected.

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The shed is also used to provide covered accommodation for other stock. In recent years this has included non-operational diesel shunters (such as [[BR Class 08 D3802|D3802]] and [[BR Class 08 08896|08896]]) and steam locomotives (such as [[GWR Pannier 5764|5764]], [[GWR Mogul 7325|7325]] and [[LMS Stanier Class 5 45110|45110]]). It The carriage repair facilities were also was used in September 2016 to paint [[GWR 813 Saddle Tank|813]].