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{{Stub}}[[File:Land_Rover_Hampton_Loade_20170812.jpg|thumb|300px|right| PSL 193 'Plimsoll' arrives at Hampton Loade in 2017]]__NOTOC__ Since 2021 the SVR's '''Vintage Transport Extravaganza''' is its main event celebrating vintage transport. It combines elements of earlier Steam on the Road, Classic Car Day and On the Buses events. Typically it includes static displays at stations along the line of vintage cars, traction engines, tractors, motorcycles, buses and commercial vehicles. Other attractions have included tractor and traction engine road runs, a live steam model railway and the operation of [[Other rolling stock visiting the SVR|PSL 193 'Plimsoll']], Mark Saville’s 1957 Series 1 2-litre petrol road-rail Land Rover. A modified standard timetable is used, and standard fares apply.
Since 2021 the An article by Rob Whale appeared in SVRNews 219 entitled 's '''Vintage Transport Extravaganza''' is its main event celebrating vintage transport. It combines elements of earlier Steam on the Road, Classic Car Day and On the Buses SVR classic vehicle day events. Typically it includes static displays at stations along the line of vintage cars, traction engines, tractors, motorcycles, buses and commercial vehicles. Other attractions have included tractor and traction engine road runs, a live steam model railway and the operation of [[Other rolling stock visiting the SVR|PSL 193 'Plimsoll']], Mark Saville’s 1957 Series 1 2-litre petrol road-rail Land Rover. A modified standard timetable is used, and standard fares apply.
==Early events==
===Classic Vehicle Day 1991-2002===
In 1991 the event was organised jointly by the SVR and the Worcester Bus Preservation Societyas the '''SVR Rail/Road Rally'''. <ref name=News219>SVR News 219</ref> The second such event, the 1992 '''Vintage Vehicle Rally''' on 11 October at Kidderminster, was attended by more than 100 classic vehicles including some seventy buses, thirty cars and a dozen commercial vehicles. Eight single decker and four double decker buses provided a shuttle between Kidderminster and Bewdley.<ref>SVR News 106</ref>
The joint SVR / Worcester Bus Preservation Society events continued in the same format until the twelfth and final 'Classic Vehicle Day' which was held on 14 October 2001. It included "...''the usual 'Bewdley Shuttle' and Green Street 'Park & Ride' services''".<ref>SVR News 139</ref> The latter service allowed the SVR public to park in a hired car park in the town and catch a classic bus to the Railway, while the classic vehicle event took place on the station car park.
===Later Classic Vehicle Days===
A further Classic Car Day was held in 2015 and a Classic Vehicle Day in 2016 with more than 150 vehicles scheduled to appear.
 
===1960s Transport Day 2002-2011===
This was first held to host an incoming Hertfordshire Railtours HST, and included cars, buses, lorries and bikes.<ref name=News219/>
===On the Buses===
===Steam on the Road===
From at least 2016 to 2019 an August '''Steam on the Road''' event offered a weekend of vintage steam steamrollers, traction engines and steam wagons.
 
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==See also==
[[Category: Miscellaneous articles]]
[[Category:Stub articles]]
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