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In December 2010 an earlier attempt to build a two-road shed for the storage of up to 50 wagons on the course of the trackbed of the [[Stourport Branch]] failed when the HLF turned down an application for funding.<ref>[https://forum.svr-online.org.uk/viewtopic.php?t=1133&highlight=hlf Fathers, P., SVR Forum 10 December 2010] (Retrieved 4 January 2018</ref>
The Wagon Review Group was created late in 2015. In March 2017 the group formed a committee to take the wagon shed project forward, and the following month it appointed a Treasurer "both to manage money raised and to assist the Group with the identification and implementation of practical fundraising initiatives in cooperation with other SVR organisations."<ref>'Job vacancies', SVRLive, 28 March 2017</ref> The wagon shed is a medium term proposal<ref name=blmay21>[https://www.svrlive.com/blmay21 Branch Lines, May 2021]</ref>.
==Objectives==
*In April 2016 the information was used to prepare possible track layouts and illustrations.<ref>SVR News June 2016</ref>
*At March 2017 the survey had been used to prepare outline plans, discuss them with the SVR management and other key parties, and obtain approximate prices for creating such a facility.
*In winter 2019-20 the opportunity was taken to install a set of points at [[Foley Park]] for future use with a siding or shed. The points are to be controlled by a [[Ground Frames at Foley Park|ground frame]] which was previously installed at Kidderminster.Electrical work to allow a release during traffic hours was not pursued at the time.<ref name=blmay21/>
The clearance work so far has not uncovered any track drainage suggesting that the design should incorporate a new drain and/or French drains to discharge at the east end where St Francis Group have their outfall to the canal/river.
