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The SVR's stance on reopening this section is not straightforward. Its website states: "the railway land north of Bridgnorth has been long since sold, and there is now no possibility of Severn Valley trains reaching Ironbridge and Shrewsbury ever again."<ref>[http://www.svr.co.uk/Consolidation.aspx SVR Website] (retrieved 5 April 2018)</ref> However its official Souvenir Guide, after listing some of the obstacles needing to be addressed, ends "So, never say never...".<ref>[[Bibliography#SVR Publications|Souvenir Guide Ninth Edition, 2012, p. 30.]]</ref> In 2002 SVR News reported that at a recent [[SVR(H)]] Board meeting [[Paul Fathers]] had agreed explained to monitor developments the Board how "...''(third party) enquiries into the possibility of EU funding of projects in the north Severn Valley being used to restore rail communication between Bridgnorth and keep the Ironbridge World Heritage site had transmuted into press reports that the SVR wanted to extend to Ironbridge; the Board informedagreed that its current position was that it would welcome seeing the results of any feasibility study''."<ref>SVR News 142 ppp. 8, 67.</ref> The railway Railway has at on other occasions similarly given its position as a 'watching brief', it will not on its own to seek to reopen the line, but possibly is open to providing technical support to any plans to reopen.

*Paul Fathers was a Director between 2007-2008 and 2009-2020