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[[File:46443 severn valley railway (3).jpg|thumb|300px|right |Bridgnorth station, viewed from the footbridge]]
...etween ''"maintaining a watching brief"'' and ''"the railway land north of Bridgnorth has been long since sold, and there is now no possibility of Severn Valley
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! Up (towards [[Kidderminster]]) !! Down (towards [[Bridgnorth]])
...bled there]] including [[Rolling stock currently under restoration|rolling stock under restoration]]. Public access to the yard is available during the annu
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...:Operational passenger hauling diesel locomotives|passenger hauling diesel locomotives]]. There are also {{PAGESINCATEGORY:Operational diesel shunters}} [[:Catego
...ong term restoration and overhaul. A list of these may be found [[Rolling stock currently under restoration | '''here''']].
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The BR Class 108 diesel multiple units (DMU) were built by BR at Derby between 1958 and 1961. They are mainly of aluminium construction, wit
Withdrawal of the class from service began in 1990. Unlike some other early models of DMU, the class 108 did not contain asbestos, making them su
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== Operational steam locomotives ==
...m time to time locomotives may undergo short term repairs or be on hire to other railways. For up to date details of availability, see the [http://www.svr.c
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...-6-0 mixed traffic locomotive, one of three of the class locomotives based at the SVR, the others being [[GWR 7802 Bradley Manor | 7802 Bradley Manor]] a
...WR 7819 Hinton Manor | 7819 Hinton Manor]]. 7812 was named after the Manor at Erlestoke, a village near Devizes in Wiltshire. It entered service in Janu
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|caption = 813 at Highley in November 2016
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...1959-10-07.jpeg|thumb|300px|right|6388 passes large numbers of coal wagons at Alveley Sidings in October 1959 ([[Sellick Collection]])]]
.... [[Alveley Miners Halt level crossing | Alveley Halt]], which was located at the south (Highley) end of the sidings, was used by miners travelling to th
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...ives, goods wagons and the remainder of the carriages are owned by various other groups.
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|caption = 34027 Taw Valley as 21C127 at Bridgnorth, April 2023
...id, CME of the Southern Railway (SR). Lighter in weight than their sister locomotives, the Merchant Navy class, they could be used on a wide variety of routes in
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...|Locomotives]], [[Carriages]] and [[Goods Wagons]], other items of rolling stock may be found on the SVR. These include the following:
...onal ||[[Severn Valley Railway (Holdings) PLC | SVR(H)]] || Formerly based at Chester West MPD
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...and accidents, and was vacuum braked for that purpose.<ref name = SVR9>SVR Stock Book Ninth Edition</ref><ref>SVR News 44</ref>
...1982. At the time it was intended to assist with the construction of the [[Bridgnorth Bypass Bridge]], although it was ultimately not used for that purpose.<ref
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...a 2-8-2 version before adopting the 10-coupled design,<ref>[[Bibliography#Other References|Rowledge (1987)]] p. 9.</ref> which shared many similarities wi
...re placed, with deliveries starting in December 1943. The 2-8-0 and 2-10-0 locomotives were built by just two companies, the Vulcan Foundry and the North British
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...ine_House_20210718.jpg|thumb|300px|right|The view of the Engine House as a Bridgnorth bound train approaches Highley]]
...ed by the Severn Valley Railway#Highley Colliery | Highley Colliery]]. The other major museum on the railway, [[Kidderminster Railway Museum]], is run by an
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*'''May 1970''': '''Bridgnorth to Hampton Loade'''. This section had been closed by BR in 1963.
...rminster had ended in 1982. BR would continue to use the existing station at Kidderminster as part of the Birmingham Snow Hill to Worcester line. As it
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...oes, a local railway enthusiast, discussed this with a group of colleagues at work. The subject changed to the attempts to reopen part of the Bluebell li
...ekend, and on Monday they responded, suggesting a meeting. This took place at the house of [[Tony Tuite]], a colleague of Beddoes, on the evening of Tues
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The SVR in preservation began operating between Bridgnorth and Hampton Loade in May 1970.
...unction]] and the [[Foley Park sidings|British Sugar Corporation factory]] at Foley Park.
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...ef> The boiler was constructed using an antiquated lap joint design rather than butt joints which had become the norm for railway locomotive boilers by tha
...n to use dumper trucks due to the increasing depth of the quarry, with the locomotives then being used to shunt coal and chalk (the latter from the Company's Tott
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|caption = 4150 in course of restoration at Bewdley (Jul 2012)
4150 was built at Swindon and entered service in June 1947. The first allocation was to near
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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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|caption = 5164 at Highley (2010)
...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
=== SVR Rolling Stock Trust: 2001 to 2012 ===
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[[File:Platform 2 at Kidderminster Town - geograph.org.uk - 247100.jpg |thumb|300px|right | Kidd
The '''Carriage Repair Works''' is split across two main sites at [[Kidderminster]] and [[Bewdley]]. Both works are closed to the public, exc
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|caption = 92212 at Bridgnorth
...ive, one of the final batch of steam locomotives built by British Railways at Swindon Works. The 9F class was the last of the BR Standard classes design
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...rvices. It also operates the line's shops, pubs and refreshment rooms at [[Bridgnorth]], [[The Engine House]], [[Bewdley]] and [[Kidderminster]].
..., one of the [[List of preservation groups|SVR preservation groups]] or to other bodies associated with the railway. Donations to [[Charities associated wit
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...assenger Carrying Coaching Stock (NPCCS) | Non Passenger Carrying Coaching Stock]]", meaning that as it was fitted with vacuum brakes, it was allowed to run
...aw Departmental use as an S&T store at Reading, numbered KDB97529.<ref>SVR Stock Book Ninth Edition</ref>
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...950s onward, mostly operating from Shrewsbury although No. 2207 was housed at [[Kidderminster Shed]]. As well as freight duties, they worked occasional s
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...ode 'OPEN C', later re-coded ‘TUBE’ during the 1940s.<ref name=SB9>SVR Stock Book Ninth Edition</ref>
...er service with the GWR and BR(W), 99965 was moved to Internal User duties at the Wolverton Carriage Works as number I/U 023308.<ref name=SB9/>
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...igned by H.G. (George) Ivatt for work on secondary and branch line duties. Locomotives of this class were often referred to as a "Mickey Mouse". It is a 2-6-0 'Mo
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==Carriages formerly at the SVR but later moved elsewhere==
...d by the [[The Erlestoke Manor Fund|EMF]] for use as a stores and Workshop at Bewdley. Left SVR for GWSR before 1998. || [http://www.cs.rhrp.org.uk/se/Ca
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;9MT:The British Railways system of classifying steam locomotives by power using a number from 0, least powerful, to 9, most powerful, follow
;Austin:John Austin GRA, renowned Bridgnorth-based railway artist and Fellow of The Guild of Railway Artists
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|caption = 12099 at Kidderminster in 2018
...nly 0-6-0 Class 11 350hp diesel electric shunting locomotive. 120 of these locomotives were built by the LMS and BR between 1945 and 1952.
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