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Wribbenhall Junction (for lack of a better place to put it)
In May 2022 a Spring Model Railway Weekend was held, split from the Open House Weekend. 27 layouts were in attendance in scales from 009 to 0. Highlights included Cregwir, a layout based on the Island of Sodor with characters from The Railway Series, including Thomas, Stepney, Bear and Wilbert. Other layouts on display were a ‘have a go’ live steam layout with LNER A4s, Halfpenny Green with engines local to Worcester, and Campbell’s Quarry, where a crane scooped sand up, dropped it into wagons before it was dropped off further up the line.
=='Wribbenhall Junction'==
Former resident [[Carriages formerly resident on the SVR| GWR Toplight 'Snake C' Passenger Brake 1150]] arrived at Bewdley in May 1981,<ref>SVR Stock Book Ninth Edition</ref> having been acquired for preservation by Alastair Kerr to house a model railway layout. The N-gauge layout, which was named "Wribbenhall Junction",<ref>SVR News 62, Winter 1981-82</ref> was fully automatic and had up to nine trains running simultaneously. Over the next 23 years it attracted around 300,000 visitors.
In July 2004 the Birmingham Post ran an article noting the impending closure of the display due to a shortage of volunteers to help Alastair to operate it.<ref>[https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Bewdley+Model+Railway+Station.-a0119729280 "Bewdley Model Railway Station"] Birmingham Post via The Free Library (retrieved 26 September 2022)</ref> Following its closure, GWR 1150 left the SVR a short time later.
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