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[[File:1997-7219 RJS OWW 8.jpg|thumb|300px|right| Two BR DMUs passing at Hartlebury on 2 November 1962. From the [[Sellick Collection]]]].On {{PAGENAME}} in SVR history.
*1891 Construction of Bridgnorth Castle Hill Railway began.<ref>SVR News 166</ref>
*1962 By the 1960s, many local passenger services were worked by [[DMU]]. Railway photographer R.J. Sellick filmed two passing at [[Hartlebury]].
*[[Severn Valley Railway Timeline 1970-1979#1973|1973]] The [[Severn Valley Railway Company Limited|Guarantee Company]] AGM approved the transfer of the LRO for the Northern section of the railway to [[SVR(H)]], in preparation for the granting of the LRO for the Southern section to [[Foley Park]] in 1974.<ref>SVR News 29</ref>
*1998 HE 686 visited the former Huslet Works in Leeds, where she was built 100 years earlier<ref>SVR News 129</ref>.
*2013 The 'Blue Bell Explorer' rail tour hauled by 70013 'Oliver Cromwell' ran from Bridgnorth to the Bluebell Railway in Sussex,<ref>[http://www.sixbellsjunction.co.uk/10s/131102rt.htm Six Bells Junction]</ref> becoming the first rail tour to use the newly re-signalled [[Connection to Network Rail|main line connection at Kidderminster]]<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20150521020833/http://www.svr-association.org.uk/railtours1.html SVRA website via Internet Archive Wayback Machine]</ref>.
*2017 The [[Northern Belle]] was sold.<ref>[http://www.examiner.co.uk/news/huddersfield-businessman-bought-train-13889254 Huddersfield Examiner, 12 November 2017]</ref> The new owners invoked the early termination clause in the contract with SVR to service the train.
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