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Severn Valley Limited

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2023 premium dining offering
[[File:Severn_Valley_Limited_20150426.jpg |thumb|300px|right| The Severn Valley Limited dining train]]
The Severn Valley Limited is a full length dining train running which until 2019 ran on Sundays, typically of four to six carriages from the GWR / BR(W) chocolate and cream set referred to as [[Carriages#Set S | Set S]]. This facilitates facilitated the use of smaller engines and for saloon charters to be attached to it.
==Operation==
The train does one full return trip from [[Kidderminster]] to [[Bridgnorth]], normally departing from the dock platform nearest the museum and using platform 2 at Bridgnorth, with food served on the outward leg of the journey. The service is pre-book only.
===Operation 1978-2012 and in 2017===
The Severn Valley Limited first ran in summer 1978<ref>SVR News 49</ref>. Until 2012 the train also carried limited seating for non-dining passengers.
The train did one full return trip from [[Kidderminster]] to [[Bridgnorth]], normally departing from the dock platform nearest the museum and using platform 2 at Bridgnorth, with food served on the outward leg of the journey. The service was pre-book only. In 2017 it again appeared in the public timetable, with limited public seating. All trains, including the diner, were pathed to standard timings and have with additional dwell time at stations built in to assist in making up time if the service runs ran late. The 'Limited' set S was reduced to four coaches in order to allow the railway to operate smaller locomotives during the week, although a saloon may be was sometimes added. On a Sunday the ‘Limited’ has had two vehicles added to allow three coaches for standard passenger accommodation to reduce the gap in the passenger service. Where possible, the set runs ran as a maximum six coach length train, again in order to assist the use of smaller motive power.<ref>[https://www.svrlive.com/2017-working-timetables Steven Chapple Operations Manager in '2017 Working Timetables', SVRLive, 17 February 2017] (Retrieved 19 March 2017)</ref>
===Operation 2013-2016 and 2018-2019===
===From 2020===
The [[2020 coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic]] caused all catering trains to be cancelled. Trains restarted in 2022 with two vehicles attached to a service train.  From 2023 this continued operationally, but as a premium on-train dining experience in partnership with a specialist local company, Paisley Flour Catering and their experienced catering team. It operated on a handful of summer dates, and did not carry the 'Limited' branding.
==Wheelchair access==
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