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...the available storage space at home. The smaller of the two GWR warehouses at [[Kidderminster]] was identified as a suitable building. It was then still
...signalling equipment and notices. In the afternoon the guests travelled to Bridgnorth and back by train while the founders were able to talk to them on an indivi
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...a DMU service from [[Kidderminster]] to the [[Severn Valley Railway|SVR]] at [[Bewdley]] on summer Saturdays and Bank Holidays.
...he SVR participants in the grand parade at the [[Rocket 150]] celebrations at Rainhill on 24-26 May were [[GWR 2251 Class 3205|3205]], [[LMS Ivatt Class
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The Severn Valley Railway is home to a number of diesel locomotives. These are used for shunting and also to haul certain passenger services.
...nster TMD]]. However operational diesel locomotives are also stationed at Bridgnorth, Highley and Bewdley.
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...ster On-Line</ref> After decommissioning, it had resided for several years at Horsted Keynes on the Bluebell Railway before arriving on the SVR in June 1
The Railway originally planned to install it at Bewdley South in the [[Stourport Triangle]]<ref name = "SVRNews56">SVR News
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...2 is owned by the Great Western Society at Didcot but was resident on loan at the SVR in the 1960s and 1970s.
...8 passengers and included a large luggage department.<ref name = "SB5">SVR Stock Book 5th edition</ref><ref name = "Didcot">[https://didcotrailwaycentre.org
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|caption = 45110 at Highley
...the very last steam locomotives to be used by BR, ending its working life at Lostock Hall Shed, Preston, from where it worked the return portion of the
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...am.<ref group="note">The oldest, 4920 Dumbleton Hall, is on static display at Warner Brothers Studio Tours, Tokyo</ref> 4930's sister locomotive [[GWR 49
...oad Depot]]. As well as Wolverhampton’s Stafford Road and Oxley depots, other pre-War shed allocations included Chester, Tyseley and Leamington as well a
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...September also saw picketing of oil refineries and fuel depots in protest at rising fuel prices (unleaded petrol having reached 80p per litre for the fi
...unnel. On 5 November this was overwhelmed, causing a major landslip at the Bridgnorth end with 3 lengths of track left hanging in space and the embankment spread
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|caption = 46443 at Kidderminster (June 2011)
...yte notation | 2-6-0 'Mogul']], rated 2MT by BR following nationalisation. Locomotives of this class were often referred to as a "Mickey Mouse". The first 20 were
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|caption = 7802 Bradley Manor at Bewdley
...-6-0 mixed traffic locomotive, one of three of the class locomotives based at the SVR, the others being [[GWR 7812 Erlestoke Manor | 7812 Erlestoke Manor
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...cular coaches have 8 compartments each seating 8 passengers, plus a toilet at each end of the coach.
...C77 Lot 1593, with 1086 entering service in March 1938.<ref>[[Bibliography#Other References|Longworth (2018)]] p.55.</ref>
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|caption = 7819 Hinton Manor at Kidderminster, August 2018
...f three GWR Collett 7800 Manor class 4-6-0 mixed traffic locomotives based at the SVR, the others being [[GWR 7802 Bradley Manor | 7802 Bradley Manor]] a
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...cular coaches have 8 compartments each seating 8 passengers, plus a toilet at each end of the coach.
...e continued with BR(W) with the carriage initially being re-numbered W1116 at nationalisation and then W1116W following the introduction of BR Mk 1 coach
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...become a ‘BR approved’ steam centre, supplying locomotives and rolling stock overhauled to BR standards for use on main line excursions and charters.
...om there. The time spent away could vary from days to months. In between, locomotives would return to the SVR for repairs and overhauls, as well as working servi
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...t the time of the 2007 storm damage, and installation of the wheel-drop at Bridgnorth which required a 12,000 cubic foot hole to be dug in the locomotive works.
...or’s tender, temporarily resolved by a loan from the Foxcote Manor Group at Llangollen while new castings were made. Finally 42968 suffered wheel flat
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...h more than 300 built between 1903 and 1949 to the same basic design. The locomotives were designed to haul semi-fast and suburban passenger services to tight sc
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|caption = 7325 at Kidderminster, June 2019
Having introduced a range of standard locomotives designed for heavier services, GWR CME George Jackson Churchward asked his
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...filming, being either propelled or hauled into shot as it was not in steam at the time. Its first appearance was as a contractors' locomotive while the l
'The Permanent Way' included at least one small anachronism; the [[Arley]] distant signal is briefly visibl
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|caption = 48773 at Bridgnorth, running as LMS 8233
...The War Department had more than 200 built to order and requisitioned more than 50 others, before the cheaper WD Austerity 2-8-0 was introduced in 1943.
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...ding ex officio the chairman (or their nominee) from each of the Railway's other main organisations, [[SVR(H)|Severn Valley Railway (Holdings) PLC]] ("SVR(H
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