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[[File:Highley_Signal_Box_20170618.jpg |thumb|300px|right| Highley Signal Box]]On {{PAGENAME}} in SVR history.
 
[[File:Highley_Signal_Box_20170618.jpg |thumb|300px|right| Highley Signal Box]]On {{PAGENAME}} in SVR history.
  
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*1968 A Birmingham University Transport Society DMU railtour operated Hartlebury to Alveley Colliery, returning via Bewdley and Kidderminster.<ref>[https://www.sixbellsjunction.co.uk/60s/680302bu.html Six Bells Junction]</ref>
 
*1974 [[Highley signal box]] was commissioned.<ref>SVR News 31</ref>
 
*1974 [[Highley signal box]] was commissioned.<ref>SVR News 31</ref>
*[[Severn Valley Railway Timeline 1980-1989#1985 | 1985]] [[75069|BR Standard 75069]]'s first main line outing in preservation appropriately featured a rail tour to Swindon, as the locomotive had been built there 30 years earlier<ref>SVR News 76</ref>.
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*[[Severn Valley Railway Timeline 1980-1989#1985 | 1985]] [[75069|BR Standard 75069]]'s first main line outing in preservation appropriately featured a rail tour to Swindon, as the locomotive had been built there 30 years earlier.<ref>SVR News 76</ref>
*[[Severn Valley Railway Timeline 2010-2019#2013|2013]] [[Kidderminster Station signal box (1987 onwards)#2013 fire| Kidderminster signal box]] suffered a small fire in the roof<ref>[https://forum.svr-online.org.uk/viewtopic.php?t=2775&start=0&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight= SVR Forum]</ref>.
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*2001 The Spring "Branch Line Gala Weekend" included [[BR Standard 9F 92212]], initially [[Steam Locomotives hired by the SVR|hired to the SVR]] to help operate the [[Christmas services|Santa Special services]] as the home fleet was at the time still recovering from the recent [[Severn Valley Railway Timeline 2000-2009#2000| boiler crisis]].<ref>SVR News 134, 136</ref>
   
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*[[Severn Valley Railway Timeline 2010-2019#2013|2013]] [[Kidderminster Station signal box (1987 onwards)#2013 fire| Kidderminster signal box]] suffered a small fire in the roof, with services terminating at Bewdley for most of the day<ref>[https://forum.svr-online.org.uk/viewtopic.php?t=2775&start=0&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight= SVR Forum]</ref>.
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==Gallery==
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Photos taken on 2 March:
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Cound-Halt-1963-03-02.jpg| 1963:  [[Cound Halt]], View of LMS Ivatt 2MT 41240 on passenger ([[Sellick Collection]])
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Cressage-5153-1963-03-02.jpg| 1963: [[Cressage]], View West of Eastbound GWR Large Prairie 5153 on goods ([[Sellick Collection]])
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</gallery>
 
==See also==
 
==See also==
  

Latest revision as of 17:50, 26 January 2022

Highley Signal Box
On March 2 in SVRSevern Valley Railway history.

Gallery

Photos taken on 2 March:

See also

On this day in SVRSevern Valley Railway history

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References

  1. Six Bells Junction
  2. SVRSevern Valley Railway News 31
  3. SVRSevern Valley Railway News 76
  4. SVRSevern Valley Railway News 134, 136
  5. SVR Forum