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[[File: Kidderminster_Carriage_Shed_20150610.jpg|thumb|300px|right| Kidderminster Carriage Shed]]
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>
==Early plans==
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>
On 12 May 1999 the SVR announced that it had been awarded a grant of £1.757m towards construction of the carriage shed, at the time the largest grant made to a heritage railway. Planning permission was granted on 22 June. Further fundraising secured another £170k within 2 months of the grant, reaching 75% of the partnership funding required and allowing contracts to be signed with the design and build contractors Tarmac Building (later Carillion).<ref>SVR News 130</ref>
During 2017-18, Road 1 was used to house the [[Northern Belle]] rolling stock. Located outside on Road 6 is the railway's carriage washer, which is used to keep the stock in a clean external condition. The facility has proved priceless in maintaining the rolling stock in the high quality condition in which our visitors find it, and to which the railway's volunteers restore these historic artifacts.
==Carriage repair facility==
The railway had identified a need for a bay for quick repairs and repaints, with ad hoc arrangements in the Carriage shed.<ref>SVR News 202, 203</ref> A train repairer team was formed and a scaffolding platform located on 4 and 5 roads, but planning issues in 2017 brought a two year halt.<ref>SVR News 207</ref> Work restarted when the platform was relocated to roads 2 and 3, with further expenditure identified as necessary to reduce external noise levels<ref>SVR News 206</ref>.
==Non-carriage rolling stock==
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]].
==See also==
