Query Corner

Welcome to Query Corner!

This is a location to ask (and answer!) about any gaps in the information available on the SVR. We are interested in both personal recollections and of potential sources of information, such as old editions of the SVR News, articles published in newspapers or magazines, or photographs you may have.

Please add to this page as questions come to mind. To add to a new question, put a short summary as a new section title (e.g. == Kidderminster Questions ==), and add some context below.

When replying to questions, you should add a signature to identify yourself, and to break up different replies - his can be done automatically by adding --~~~~ at the end of your reply, which will generate a signature for you when you save the page, or alternatively by clicking the add signature button on the editor (second button from the right).

It is possible to indent your reply by placing a colon at the start of each line, e.g. : Indented Text. Additional colons will indent your text further.

Contents

Wanted Pages

We currently have links to 129 pages that don't exist yet
If you have any knowledge of the subject, please go ahead and create the page.

Ground Frames at Alveley, Foley Park, and Kidderminster

• It is known that Alveley Sidings had two ground frames, North and South, and that the South survived into preservation for some years. However, details are incredibly sketchy! I have seen photos of special trains at Alveley in early days, perhaps one of these includes them?

• Foley Park Sidings almost certainly had at least one, possibly two, ground frames for access. I have no information on these. I have also come across a photo showing two temporary GFs on the SVR/BR boundary - see Ground Frames at Foley Park - but nothing else is known.

• I've seen reference to a ground frame at Kidderminster Town station in early days, controlling the run round, before the box was built. Was this one GF or two, given the distance? Again, any information appreciated!

--Danny252 (talk) 22:48, 9 January 2015 (UTC)

I asked some of these questions to the FB group, and predictably it raised more questions than answers! See Link. --Danny252 (talk) 22:11, 10 January 2015 (UTC)

Which carriages are in regular use?

There's a good article in the latest SVR News about the make up of the carriage rakes in use for the Diesel Gala.
Can that be taken as the current standard make up? It only show four carriages on the Severn Valley Limited and makes no mention of the Severn Valley Venturer.
If the carriage shed is 1/5 mile long, that's room for 15 carriages at 70' on each of the four roads. If there are six sets, BR Maroon, BR Carmine & Cream, LMS, LNER, plus SVV & SVL I take it that leaves plenty of room for the TPOs, spares etc.?
--Graham Phillips 110 (talk) 08:32, 27 January 2015 (UTC)

Because its on a slight curve each of the four roads of the carriage shed varies slight in length. It capacity is generally considered to be 56 bogies coaches.
Boldford (talk) 17:45, 1 February 2015 (UTC)

I'll take a look at the news next time I'm home, but the Limited would usually be S(5). The Venturer would be two coaches attached to the South (KR) end of Bridgnorth's service train for the day.

I guess I may as well mention the Observation Saloons, which will run as required for Cream Tea services (one obbo at the KR end of the train) or as private charters attached to one end or the other of a service train (I think the KR end is more usual, but I've seen it the other way round, and even with an obbo both ends). --Danny252 (talk) 09:57, 29 January 2015 (UTC)

How to classify 6634

The chassis of 6634 has been at Bridgnorth for several years. It came from Crewe with the intention that the chassis work would be done at Bridgnorth with a completed boiler arriving later and the locomotive to operate at the SVR for approximately 5 years. Due to unfortunate unforeseen circumstances the boiler hasn't been forthcoming. An impasse now exists in that the SVR has already put a lot of money and effort into something that there is little prospect of becoming operational in the foreseeable future. Any thoughts? Boldford (talk) 17:39, 9 February 2015 (UTC)

6634 presumably? It was mentioned in Meet the Locos last time I looked, so ought to be referred to here for consistency. I'm off out but will add it later unless anyone gets there first.

Forgive the typo. It is 6634. Now corrected.

http://forum.svra.org.uk/viewtopic.php?t=1217 is a link to the original up-beat SVR Online 2009 postings. Boldford (talk) 14:04, 12 February 2015 (UTC)