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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/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].