D3022 shunts two dining carriages at Kidderminster Town station, Severn Valley Railway.
Ex-GWR Inspection Saloon no. 80972 (built 1948) and ex-LNER 7960 Kitchen Composite restaurant car (built 1936) feature on special services like the railway's afternoon tea and Sunday Lunch trains.
D3022 (a Class 08, nicknamed Gronks) is the youngest of the three, built in 1953. It has been in use on the Severn Valley since 1984, so has run in preservation for 10 years longer than it ran with British Rail.
Taken while I was in Kidderminster doing various bits and pieces.
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7812 waits at Bewdley station, Severn Valley Railway during their Feb 24 evening photo shoot.
It was an atmospheric evening all round and the mono conversion captures it nicely for me.
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7812 Erlestoke Manor leaves Bewdley tunnel with a Sunday morning Footplate Experience service.
The area around the tunnel is owned by Worcestershire Wildlife Trust. The land behind 7812 has been heathland for many years; the Trust have purchased neighbouring farm land with the aim of returning them to a similar natural state, a process that takes decades:
www.worcswildlifetrust.co.uk/nature-reserves/devils-spitt...
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7714 approaches Bewdley with a footplate experience service on the Severn Valley Railway.
The weather actually behaved itself for once, the sun just skirting a large grey cloud for long enough so I could get this shot.
Footplate experiences are for enthusiasts wanting to drive a steam loco themselves, with family and friends riding along in the coaches behind.
7714 was built in 1930 and ran on GWR & BR services til 1959 when it was withdrawn after running for at least 500,000 miles. After being purchased by the National Coal Board, it was eventually preserved in 1973. After restoration it first ran on the SVR in 1992.
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A WMR Class 172 DMU rolls into Kidderminster mainline station, seen from the Severn Valley Railway's Kidderminster Town.
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