:SVR membership reached 15,000.
'''June 1990''': The SVR staged a "Heavy Freight Weekend" on 2-3 June. As the event came to a close, a number of wagons were unfortunately derailed on the trap points at the north end of Bridgnorth station<ref>SVR News 97</ref>.
'''Summer 1990''': [[GWR 7812 Erlestoke Manor|7812 Erlestoke Manor]] left the SVR for overhaul at Swindon, becoming the first SVR locomotive not to be overhauled in the [[Bridgnorth Loco Works]].