Severn Valley trains set for full trips once more
Tuesday 22nd March 2011, 11:13AM GMT.
Steam trains will run the full length of Shropshire’s Severn Valley Railway for the first time in nearly two months this weekend following £500,000 repair and engineering works.
Trains have been running at weekends between Bridgnorth, the railway’s northern terminus, and Highley.
But the departure from Kidderminster at 10.25 am on Saturday will be the first passenger train from the southern terminus since early January.
Severn Valley Railway general manager Nick Ralls said staff and engine crews could not wait.
“For most of the past two months we have been engaged in heavy trackbed renewals at Arley Station, and restoring the waterproofing membrane of Bewdley south viaduct,” he said.
“It has meant that for most of that time the line in these two places has been severed, and our train services restricted to just the northern end of the line.”
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