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'''April 2020'''
*By 2 April the emergency appeal total reached £120,000.
*The Coronavirus pandemic lead to further total closures until the end of June and the cancellations of the [[Step Back to the 1940s ]] weekends.
*A minimal contract engineering presence saw tests on the [[Bridgnorth Loco Works#New_boiler_assembly_and_production|second of five new boilers for the Isle of Man Railway]].
*On 15 April [[Ruston and Hornsby 165hp Diesel Shunter D2960|D2960 Silver Spoon]] took [[GWR 9055 Nondescript Saloon]] for a test after overhaul, running within the confines of the section signal at Kidderminster. The line to Bewdley remained severed for the winter works, interrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
'''March 2022'''
*The [[Kidderminster Footbridge|long footbridge at Kidderminster]] was removed, to be replaced
*The SVR announced that it had cancelled its two [[Step Back to the 1940s|1940s-themed weekends ]] later in the year, in the light of the conflict taking place in Ukraine.
*It announced that footplate experiences in April and May would be cancelled to conserve its coal stocks. It soon extended this to cancelling Monday and Tuesday trains all season, and running all standard timetables with some diesel operation. Ovoids and e-coal were also to be tested.
*60007 Sir Nigel Gresley [LNER 4498] visited for testing and running in.
