Talk:Locomotives used on the Severn Valley Branch in commercial service

This page is still a bit of a work-in-progress. Any additional types, information on classes, example loco numbers and relevant pictures would be appreciated. Plus proof reading of course! --Robin (talk) 16:03, 26 October 2020 (UTC)

2251 and Manor I've seen photos, plus Sellick has Class 116s. --Patrick Hearn (talk) 17:49, 26 October 2020 (UTC)

Thanks - I've added those. I reverted the last of your edits which I think (or hope!) was just formatting changes moving references after punctuation, which is correct practice on Wikipedia but causes problems on this Wiki due to a conflict with the 'Lingo' terminology add-on. There are some notes about it on my user page. --Robin (talk) 22:26, 26 October 2020 (UTC)

Yup. I went to undo them but they were already undone thanks!--Patrick Hearn (talk) 22:54, 26 October 2020 (UTC)

I'm assuming BRBritish Rail or British Railways DMUs on the Kidder-Bewdley specials don't count?--Patrick Hearn (talk) 22:54, 26 October 2020 (UTC)

The draft guidance I put in the introductory paragraph was "...used regularly on scheduled passenger and freight services" so I guess they probably don't count as not being that regular. The same would apply to things like incoming bank holiday specials in the 50s and 60s - somewhere in SVRSevern Valley Railway News is a Cam Camwell photo of an LMSLondon Midland & Scottish Railway Crab passing Foley Park with one which would certainly have been a good one for spotters at the time. Mind you I don't own the page - it's a Wiki so anyone can add whatever they want (within reason!). --Robin (talk) 23:29, 26 October 2020 (UTC)

Diesels, I ponder? Did 25s etc make it onto the branch for coal traffic at Alveley or Stourport?

Done (while you were asking I was already typing!), although there may have been other classes in addition to the 2 listed. I'll keep an eye out as I keep checking various books. --Robin (talk) 17:04, 5 November 2020 (UTC)

The ex-ROD 2-8-0s should get a listing as they're mentioned. I'm not clear when they were used, was it the GWRGreat Western Railway 3000 Class or other ex-RODs?

Smith simply refers to them as ex-ROD 2-8-0s but gives no other details, and I haven't as yet found any other reference to them. I assume they would have been based at Shrewsbury in order to work to Ironbridge via the Branch. There is an useful page of shed bashes at Shrewsbury between 1957 and 1967 but although the key refers separately to ex-ROD and ex-WD locos, I can only find the latter listed. Can't add much else at the moment. --Robin (talk) 17:04, 5 November 2020 (UTC)

The BRBritish Rail or British Railways database brings up a blank. This shows the GWRGreat Western Railway 3300 loco withdrawn from Shrewsbury in '53 and this confirms the allocation. But no evidence there of work on the SVRSevern Valley Railway branch, or whether there were non-GW examples too.