This new title in the growing Recollections series takes us back
through the years using archive pictures of The Severn Valley
Railway, selected to show the line in day-to-day use, we see
pre-preservation scenes and preserved era scenes along the route.
The Severn Valley Railway that we can travel on today was closed to
passenger traffic in stages during the 1960's and early 1970 - the
final section from Bewdley to Kidderminster closing on 5 January
1970. That as we now know was not to be the end. In 1965 a small
band of enthusiasts met in Kidderminster and formed The Severn
Valley Railway Society. - Initial efforts succeeded in raising 25
per cent of the GBP25,000 purchase price for the closed 5-mile
section of the Severn Valley line from Bridgnorth to Alveley. By
1967, the first rolling stock, an engine and four coaches, had been
received. From this small 'base camp' the ever growing numbers of
enthusiasts started to climb the initial mountain and over the
ensuing forty years have scaled many more! The line has not just
reopened from Kidderminster to Bridgnorth it has restored, grown
and developed - with new station facilities, carriage sheds,
workshops, signal boxes etc., etc. For the enthusiast there are
classic shots of the railway operating during the year, but this is
not just a book for enthusiasts - memories are made of these
pictures. The station scenes, fashions, old carriages, wagons,
buildings, advertising, etc, will evoke memories of days past.
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