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Add details to The Severn Valley Pioneer, Kidderminster, May 1979
*[[The_Severn_Valley_Railway_under_GWR/BR_ownership#Construction:_1858-1861 | 1861]] The first steam working on the still incomplete line took place between [[Stourport]] and [[Bewdley]].<ref>[[Bibliography#Books|Smith (1968)]] p. 16.</ref>
*1979 A Monmouthshire Railway Society special from Cardiff became the first BR through excursion onto SVR metals. BR Sulzer Type 2 No. 25107 brought the train onto the SVR.<ref>[https://www.flickr.com/photos/71592768@N08/10795945276 David Rostance's image] (Retrieved 27 November 2022)</ref> [[7819|7819 Hinton Manor]] and [[D1062|D1062 Western Courier]] provided motive power to and from Bridgnorth.<ref>SVR News 52</ref>
*1982 [[600|LMR 600 Gordon]] was used to haul a load of 1,800 concrete sleepers which had arrived at Foley Park in a freight train consisting of 19 'rail freight' O.C.A. low sided open wagons.<ref>SVR News 64</ref>
*1982 [[GWR 7812 Erlestoke Manor]] took the Welsh Marches Express between Hereford and Chester.<ref>SVR News 66, page 9</ref>