Kidderminster Carriage Shed
The 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 from the Heritage Lottery Fund.[1] The keys were 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.[2]
The shed has 4 internal roads, and is flanked either side by two uncovered sidings. The shed is almost ¼ mile long, and is able to house approximately 16 carriages on each road. From left to right, the roads are numbered from 1 to 6. Roads 1 and 6 are the uncovered external roads; Roads 2 and 3 offer maintenance facilities, with there being a pit on road 2 for undertaking running maintenance. Finally roads 4 and 5 offer further maintenance, but contain a platform in the first half of the shed, which is able to facilitate the cleaning of the rolling stock.
From 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.
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 D3802 and 08896) and steam locomotives (such as 5764). It also was used in September 2016 to paint 813.