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*'''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GWR_3300_Class GWR 3300 Class]''': Dean's double-framed inside cylinder 4-4-0 'Bulldogs' (built 1898-1910) also appeared on the Branch during the Second World War. No. 3393 ''Australia'' was [[Kidderminster Shed]]'s only 'named locomotive', being allocated there between January and July 1946, from where it mainly worked goods trains to Shrewsbury<ref>[[Bibliography#Books|Turley (2005)]] p. 126.</ref>.

*'''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GWR_2251_Class GWR 2251 Class]''': Collett's 2251 Class 0-6-0 was introduced in 1930 as a replacement for the 'Dean Goods'. The 2251 class was intended for medium-powered freight duties with 120 being built by 1948. A number of the class including [[GWR 2251 Class 3205|3205]] were used on the Severn Valley Branch from the mid -1950s onward, mostly operating from Shrewsbury although No. 2207 was housed at [[Kidderminster Shed]] from where it regularly worked the daily [[Goods traffic on the SVR#Daily goods|'Salop Goods']]. <ref name=Barfield1981>[[Bibliography#Books|Barfield (1981)]] p. 52.</ref> As well as freight duties, they worked occasional summer Sunday passenger trains<ref name=Smith/><ref name=Nabarro/>. 3205, the only surviving member of the class, was the first locomotive to arrive on the SVR in preservation, remaining resident for the next 20 years.

*'''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GWR_5600_Class GWR 5600 Class]''': The 200-strong Collett 5600 class 0-6-2T was introduced in 1924 as a mass replacement of pre-grouping locomotives in South Wales coal traffic. Three examples were shedded at Kidderminster.<ref>[http://www.brdatabase.info/sites.php?page=depots&subpage=locos&id=283 [[Kidderminster Shed]], BR Database](Retrieved 20 November 2020)</ref> Being classified '[[GWR Power and Weight Classification|Red]]', they were too heavy to work between Bewdley and Buildwas although on one occasion [[Tales from the Severn Valley#The overweight locomotive|one was sent to Alveley by mistake]]. No. 6679 was used regularly from 1957 until the end of steam on trains for hauling [[Goods traffic on the SVR#Colliery traffic|coal trains ('Slack trips')]] from Hartlebury to [[Stourport Power Station]].<ref name=Turley>[[Bibliography#Books|Turley (2005)]] p. 70.</ref><ref>[http://www.miac.org.uk/stourportps.html Booth, A., 'CEGB, Stourport Power Station', Railways in Worcestershire] (Retrieved 20 November 2020)</ref> In preservation [[GWR 5600 class 6634|6634]] is a [[Former Residents|former resident]] (though it left the SVR unrestored); [[GWR 5600 Class 5619|5619]], [[GWR 5600 Class 5643|5643]] and [[GWR 5600 Class 6695|6695]] have all had [[Steam Locomotives hired by the SVR|periods on hire to the SVR]]; and 5637 and 6619 have [[Steam Locomotives visiting the SVR for galas|visited the SVR for galas]].

*'''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LMS_Stanier_Class_8F LMS Standard Class 8F]''': Ex-LMS Stanier 8Fs similar to the SVR's [[LMS Stanier 8F 48773|48773]] were also used on occasion in the last years of the Branch. Classmate 48531, then based at Wolverhampton's Oxley MPD, was photographed working a southbound coal train at Bewdley on 3 and 29 June 1966<ref>[http://www.8fsociety.co.uk/page33.html Siviter, Roger, image on 8F Society website] (Retrieved 7 November 2022)</ref><ref>[[Bibliography#Books|Vanns (2017)]] p. 55.</ref>.

==Diesels== *'''BR Diesels''': [[Alveley Colliery]] ''' workings continued until closure in 1969. However steam haulage at the southern end of the line ended with the closure of Stourbridge shed in 1966. After that time BR Diesels were used, mainly the '''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Rail_Class_25 Sulzer Type 2 (BR Class 25)]''' and occasionally the '''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Rail_Class_20 E.E. Type 1 (BR Class 20)]'''. Examples of both types have been [[Former Residents#Diesel locomotives|formerly resident on the SVR in preservation]]. *Steam remained diagrammed on [[Ironbridge power station|Buildwas coal trains]] as late as Easter 1967 before also being replaced by diesels.<ref name = Smith/> Examples of both types have been Images show BR Class 56, 58 and 66 used. Charter passenger trains also used BR Class 20 and 37<ref>[http://www.geoffspages.co.uk/raildiary/ironbridge.htm Geoff's Rail Diaries webpage] (Retrieved 30 July 2022)</ref>. *'''British Sugar Corporation''' factory at Foley Park, Kidderminster. This utilised [[Former Residents#Diesel locomotivesLocomotives|formerly resident on Ruston and Hornsby 165hp diesel shunters]] with incoming beet trains usually tripped from Kidderminster by a Class 08 shunter. *Until 1988, a stub of the Severn Valley line remained in use from [[Sutton Bridge Junction Signal Box]], providing via a reverse move access to the site of Shrewsbury Abbey station (Shropshire & Montgomeryshire Light Railway), which remained in use as a fuel terminal with incoming oil trains usually tripped by a Class 08 shunter. *The section of the SVR SV branch between Berrington and Shrewsbury continued in preservationuse for testing Sentinel diesels until finally being closed by BR on 21 January 1968.<ref>[[Bibliography#Books|Mitchell & Smith (2007)]]p. 35.</ref> It featured [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentinel_Waggon_Works several types of Sentinel locomotives].