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:686 The Lady Armaghdale was moved into The Engine House on 18 October, having been repainted into the red livery of her second owners, ICI Limited.
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'''November 2010'''
There were no trains to/from Bridgnorth during November, due to track re-laying on Eardington bank.<ref>Express Points Web Round Up, September 2010</ref>
'''December 2010'''
:The SVR announced its [[Annual Family Pass]]
:A 'Visit Heart of England Promotion' allowed one child to travel free with each adult ticket purchased until 25 November 2012.<ref>Express Points Web Round Up, September 2012</ref>
'''December 2012'''
:The [[Severn Valley Railway (Holdings) PLC#Share_offers|share offer]] officially closed, having just passed a total of £2m.
:The Autumn Steam Gala saw visits from LMS Stanier 8P Princess Coronation class No 46233 Duchess of Sutherland (replacing the booked [[BR Standard Class 7 70000 Britannia|70000 Britannia]]), SR Maunsell Schools class No 925 Cheltenham (BR 30925, replacing the booked SR 850 Lord Nelson), Metropolitan Railway 0-4-2T Number 1, and [[GWR 4936 Kinlet Hall|GWR 4936 Kinlet Hall]] which would remain on hire over the winter season. Talyllyn Railway 2 ft 3 in gauge 0-4-2ST ‘Sir Haydn’ travelled the line as part of the freight workings, and would later spend the winter on display in The Engine House.
:An SVR Family Campaign launched, to increase family visitors and to build a sustainable base level of passengers by showcasing the Railway as a great family day out in its own right on a ‘normal’ operating day. It featured TV adverts, posters on key high traffic sites, adverts in local magazines and newspapers, adverts on London Midland trains and posts on social media.
:Gala visitors No. 925 'Cheltenham' and [[GWR 4936 Kinlet Hall|No. 4936 'Kinlet Hall']] additionally operated service trains on 12 and 13 October.
:The Lord Lieutenants of Worcestershire and Shropshire presented the [[Awards|The Queens Queen's Award for Volunteering]] on 21 October. '''November 2013''':On 2 November the 'Blue Bell Explorer' rail tour ran from Bridgnorth to the Bluebell Railway in Sussex, 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>.
'''December 2013'''
:Mike Little’s locomotive No 1450 and two Auto Coaches arrived, initially for the 2014 season.
:The Spring Steam Gala saw visits from BR(W) Hawksworth 1600 class Pannier Tank No 1638, from the Kent & East Sussex Railway, GWR Collett 6400 class Pannier Tank No 6435 from the Bodmin & Wenford Railway, BR(W) 7800 Manor Class No 7828 Odney Manor from the West Somerset Railway, and [[VGWR 4936 Kinlet Hall|4936 Kinlet Hall]] which had remained at the SVR since being hired last summer. 7828 had in recent years been running as ‘Norton Manor’ at the WSR, but reverted to its original name during the SVR visit. 4936 finally left the SVR in early summer.
'''April 2014'''
:The SVR launched a [[Severn Valley Railway (Holdings) PLC#Share_offers|share offer]] on 1 November, seeking to raise up to £2.5m towards the [[Bridgnorth#Bridgnorth Development Project | redevelopment of Bridgnorth station]]. Contractors arrived on site on 7 November to begin work on the first phase of the project, SVR staff and volunteers having already carried out some preliminary site clearance work.
:The [[Western Locomotive Association|WLA’s]] AGM on 12 November incorporated a ‘SWINDON '16’ event to celebrate the purchase of [[BR Class 52 D1062 Western Courier|D1062 Western Courier]] 40 years beforehand, the first ‘Western’ in preservation. :A three day Season Finale Gala from 4 to 6 November was held featuring visiting locomotives LMS 'Crab' No 13065, GWR 4200 class 2-8-0T No 4270, and a return visit of LNER-design A1 No. 60163 Tornado. The event also saw the return from overhaul of ex-Port Talbot Railway 0-6-0ST [[GWR 813 Saddle Tank | 813]].
'''December 2016'''
:On 9 August Class 09s [[BR Class 09 D4100|D4100]] and [[BR Class 09 09107|09107]] replaced [[LMS Ivatt Class 4 43106|43106]] between Bewdley and Kidderminster. With services running late and the crew's hours up, due to a person on the line at Bridgnorth, the decision was made so as to get 43106 back to Bridgnorth without holding the last passenger service from Kidderminster.
:On 20 August out of ticket [[45110]] was taken by low loader for exhibition at the Great Dorset Steam Fair, there to be towed by traction engines.
:On 22 August [[List of film and TV productions filmed on the Severn Valley Railway#TV_News_and_Documentary|ITV's News at Ten]] carried an item on the need for heritage railway volunteers, featuring the [[Heritage Skills Training Academy]].
:On 30 August the SVR launched its [[Christmas services|Steam in Lights]] service in the run up to Christmas
'''September 2019'''
:On 1 September [[Bewdley]] held its tenth and final bus gala, the event having outgrown the site.<ref>Express Points, September 2019</ref>
:The [[Autumn Steam Gala]] on 19-22 September had a Southern theme, with guests Maunsell Q class 0-6-0 30541, Bulleid West Country Class Pacific 34092 City of Wells and BR Standard 4MT class Mogul 76017. At [[Eardington]] the volunteer team attempted to ‘recreate’ the scenes of some of the very limited number of photographs that exist of the tiny station from before the 1960s.
:A team of volunteers from Network Rail spent a day at Highley clearing vegetation on the embankment and pathways around [[The Engine House]], as part of NR's Corporate Social Responsibility programme.
'''October 2019'''
:The Autumn Diesel Gala on 3-6 October mainly featured the home fleet. The event included the first passenger runs for [[BR Class 09 09107]] and [[Class 50 Alliance Limited|Class 50 50033 Glorious]].
:With Virgin Trains handing over the West Coast trains franchise in December, it donated a collection of Class 390 'Pendolino' name and cone plates to be auctioned in support of the [[Severn Valley Railway Charitable Trust Ltd|SVR Charitable Trust]] and [[Kidderminster Railway Museum]].<ref>Express Points, October 2019</ref>
:[[Helen Smith]] was announced as [[The Severn Valley Railway in preservation#General_Manager|General Manager]] of both SVR(H) and the Guarantee Company on 11 October 2019, in succession to [[Nick Ralls]].
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