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'''August 2022'''
*On train dining returned with the [[Severn Valley Limited]] on 3 August, for the first time since Covid-19 restrictions.<ref name=blaug22>[https://www.svrlive.com/bldec21 Branch Lines, August 2022]</ref>
*A further spell The Environment Agency declared a drought in the West Midlands on 23 August and across much of the country, following 11 weeks of hot and dry weather . Fire risk saw the reintroduction of exclusively diesel-hauled passenger services on from 10 to 15 August, and for a third time from 31 August.<ref name=blaug22/>
*The [[Charitable Trust]] appeal to restore Bridgnorth Locomotive Yard passed £100,000.<ref name=blaug22/>
*The roof and crane works at Bridgnorth Loco Works were completed on time and on budget.<ref name=blaug22/>
*Leading geotechnical specialist company 'Geobear' trialled a geo-polymer injection system in pioneering stabilisation work at Alveley Woods, at zero cost to the SVR.<ref name=blaug22/>
*The Railway announced that the contract for the [[Bridgnorth#Evolution_of_plans|refurbishment of the existing Bridgnorth station building]] was 'unlikely to go ahead until 2024 at the earliest' and now required around £300,000 of additional funding. It was a phase I project under the oversubscribed [[Severn Valley Railway (Holdings) PLC#Share_offers|2016 share offer]] and originally it had been announced the contract was originally announced as to would be let in January 2017.
==Steam locomotives used==
