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The 70ft vacuum turntable ex-Fort William arrived on the SVR in June 1980. The Railway originally planned to install it at Bewdley South, in the fork between the [[Kidderminster]] and Stourport branches, but the development of Kidderminster led to its installation there instead. During the run up to installation a number of the cast iron pads that support the ring rail were found to be missing. Patterns were made at the SVR's pattern-shop from original drawings and replacements were cast.
A second turntable ex-Whitchurch was already in the SVR’s possession at that time, originally intended for installation at Bridgnorth. This turntable is no longer at the SVR, reportedly now being in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railway_turntable#Great_Britain Mallaig, Scotland].
