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Severn valley railway.

Another slightly longer mention on the Kidderminster Station Concourse section. "The third phase was the East wing, also known as The John Garth Building. This was opened by HRH The Duke of Gloucester on 18 October 2006. It mainly houses ‘The Valley Suite’, the station’s licensed restaurant and buffet and the multiple award-winning King and Castle Pub." So now we know the exact date as well.
 
Pedrocut said:
Railway Magazine, May 2021...

A collaboration between the Severn Valley Railway, the University of Birmingham and Vanguard Sustainable Transport Solutions will see a Class 08 diesel shunter converted to fuel cell power. The first conversion of a diesel loco to run on hydrogen power in the UK...
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any up date on this project?
 
mw0njm. said:
any up date on this project?
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Be interesting to see how this continues. Cummins my former employer has hydrogen powered locomotives running on Austrian National railways as is getting ready in Germany and France. Many new large diesels will have the capability to convert to hydrogen.
 
Back in the 1970s we used to often fish at Highley on the Severn. One day we heard a commotion nearby on the Railway embankment which proved to be a film crew

“Locomotives of the Sever Valley Railway at Bridgnorth, on one of the many private railways in Britain….. BBC 2 programme Horizon in April took as its subject. railway safety, and with the help of the Severn Valley recreated some of the more famous railway accidents. The
Great Western Society lent their tank engine for the filming of Young Winston. Sherlock Holmes and Watson have been seen boarding a London, Brighton and South Coast train for Victoria at Horsted Keynes; and no doubt it will not be long before Anna Karenina leaps to her death from the platform at Bridgnorth.”

Illustrated London News, August 1972.


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