Indeed; oh, to have been in those parts, with sufficient quantities of time and money -- I'll say, seventy years ago: when the whole of the connecting, reputedly rurally delightful, Buildwas -- Much Wenlock -- Craven Arms branch still had a passenger service (its Much Wenlock -- Craven Arms section closed to passengers in 1951). A similarly delectable route was, I gather, that westward from Bewdley to Tenbury Wells and Woofferton: lost its passenger services in stages, 1961 / 62 -- just a little earlier than Bewdley -- Shrewsbury. This line also connected with the wondrously back-of-beyond Cleobury Mortimer -- Ditton Priors branch: an independent company until the Grouping, passenger service withdrawn by the GWR shortly before World War II, but remaining in use for War Department traffic and general freight, again until the early 1960s.
I'm given to understand that at the inception of the Severn Valley rail preservation undertaking, track was still down between Bewdley and Tenbury Wells: for a while, it was a "toss-up" as to whether the preservation society would / should acquire Bewdley to Bridgnorth, or the Tenbury line. Just a personal thing of mine: while recognising that the SVR is a magnificent preserved line, I find it as a route to travel, just slightly monotonous -- fine scenery, but ongoingly the same, along the riverside mile after mile. Cannot help the occasional twinge of wishing that things had so worked out that the Tenbury route (piers of whose bridge across the Severn, just out of Bewdley, can -- I believe -- still be seen today from passing SVR trains) had been chosen by the society, instead. This line's route looks, from the map, full of delight; though some opine that it would actually not have offered so wonderful a ride as all that -- comprising as it would, lengthy "samey" plodding through the Wyre Forest. Probably just an instance of the well-known perverse thing by which an abandoned line on which one never travelled, always looks and feels more enticing than its still-in-use immediate neighbour !