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==2008==
[[File: 6024 King Edward I Royal Train Highley.jpg | thumb|300px|right| 6024 King Edward I with the Royal Train (Wikimedia Commons)]]
'''March 2008''':
:On 10 March, the full length of the line was re-connected for the first time since the floods in June 2007. The last section to be completed was near Borle Viaduct.
:10 June saw the Railway visited by Their Royal Highnesses Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall. The Royal Train was hauled from Kidderminster to Bridgnorth by 6024 King Edward 1, as the SVR had no working locomotive equipped to work with air-braked stock. The Bridgnorth MPD had just carried out a successful emergency repair to 6024’s front bogie, so 6021 Princess Elizabeth was also present at Kidderminster as stand-by locomotive.
:GWR 3200 ‘Dukedog’ class No 9017 Earl of Berkeley arrived on the SVR from the Bluebell Railway for repairs to its valves, a visit which lasted continued past it's its appearance at the Autumn Steam Gala.
'''July 2008''': Partially completed replica locomotive ‘[[Catch Me Who Can]]’ was steamed in Severn Park at the ‘Trevithick 200 Rally’. A number of other working replicas attributed to Trevithick and his associates also took part. The locomotive also attended an open day at Barrow Hill Roundhouse.
