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Today the Severn Valley Railway is considered by many to be the premier heritage railway in the UK. It’s rise from the ashes of closure by BR in 1963 is due solely to the determination of early preservation pioneers who wanted to save at least part of the 40-mile branch line opened in 1862 from Shrewsbury in Shropshire to Hartlebury in Worcestershire.
This programme shows how the line became redundant in the early 1960s using rare archive films from the period. Included are scenes right up to the line’s final closure in 1969 following the shutting down of the last collieries around Highley and the first steps being taken to run steam trains once more by the preservation society.
As BR gradually closed down passenger services, volunteers began to take over from the Bridgnorth end and hold steam days to promote the project to rebuild the line and services southwards to Kidderminster. This was duly achieved fully by 1984 and the full 16 miles of heritage railway operational.
We examine each station with their differing architecture and cover many locomotive types associated with the line over some 50 years since the first train departed in 1970.
A special added section end the programme devoted to the last few popular steam and diesel galas so much a part of the railway these days.
DVD 1 hour 40 minutes duration
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Newslines – Paddington Station with the naming of an HST power car Intercity
by MD Chris Green. Guests treated to a run behind LMS Pacific No. 46203
from Paddington.
Farewell to BR: SR S15 No. 828 departs Didcot for Crewe and the series of steam tours
from Llandudno Junction to Holyhead commemorating the demise of BR.
Locomotives at Llandudno include – Nos. 5029, 828, 46203, 4498 and 71000.
BR 2-6-4T No. 80080 took a charter to Skegness from Nottingham.
Preservation – The Keighley & Worth Valley Railway Spring Gala included S15 828
plus LMS Nos. 48431 and 47279 plus more home fleet.
The opening of the newly restored station at Kidderminster providing the
terminus for the SVR. Nos. 6024, 5029, 2857, 4422 and Jubilee No. 45596 were in
attendance over the weekend.
GCR Freight Weekend with Black Five 44767, GWR tank No. 5224 and LNER 69523.
Modern News: Mid-Hants Diesel Gala brought in Nos. D7018, D5353, 33116, Peak
45132 and newly repainted Class 47 D1524 Old Oak Common.
Network News: Class 73 73107 naming at Redhill Station commemorating
150 years of Redhill.
Southampton Freightliner Terminal and the naming of
Class 47 47095 Southampton WRD.
Main Line Steam: LMS Jubilee No. 45596 on the Welsh Marches Express
from Worcester to Hereford.
No. 6024 King Edward Ist from Paddington to Stratford Upon Avon.
No. 75069 on a positioning train from Worcester Shrub Hill to the West Somerset
Railway. Includes scenes on the WSR with double-heading by Prairie No. 4160.
No. 75069 would stay at the WSR for the summer season. Class 47 47703 Queen Mother
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