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Both these offers were made and declined before [[GWR 2251 Class 3205 | 3205]] became the first locomotive to find a home at the SVR.
==Coal for Stourport Power Station==
From Alfred Powick via Facebook;<ref>[https://www.facebook.com/groups/2360466988/permalink/10153513176546989/?comment_id=10153519030031989&comment_tracking=%7B%22tn%22%3A%22R1%22%7D Unofficial SVR Facebook page]</ref><br>
"I started my career with the NCB at Highley, spending some time on the screens, so seeing the loads going out. I also spent time in the survey office and later as an official there so knew the production which came from one seam only (the Brooch). It was good house coal. <br>
I doubt that the total weekly output from Alveley (the coal winding shaft of Highley unit) would keep the power station going for 24 hours, and as only about 30% went to Stourport, the bulk of coal needed there would have to come from somewhere else. The Highley/Alveley unit was only a small mine. <br>
Up until 1954, I lived overlooking Kidderminster station, and regularly saw the coal trains coming down from Stourbridge, often with a super D on the front. Inside the hour, the super D would appear light engine from Bewdley, now facing North, to then trundle off tender first to Hartlebury, appearing some time later with empties. The 56xx at Kiddy, sometimes a 57xx, was stationed at Hartlebury to work the coal and empties to and from Stourport, I later worked at other pits in Shropshire, finishing on Cannock Chase, where I knew that coal went to Stourport and Ironbridge from Littleton colliery, a much bigger pit than Highley."
==See also==
[[The Severn Valley Railway in preservation]]
==References==
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