SVR Damaged due to Rain

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Notes on First page

Quick news from the SVR, the line between Hampton Loade to Highley seen a train for ages when the TPO moved from the sidings at Highley up to Bridgnorth. Passenger trains will start on this section on Good Friday as planned

Also i shall be updating the first page alot more with the map and checklist as well as the update posts.

Only things to finish are Northwood and Borle Viaduct and a few odd things here and there as far as i know.

And also paying for the damage, if you wish to make a donation then you may do so by the click of a button
http://www.svr.org.uk/appeal.php

"One of Five viaducts on the SVR, Borle has suffered from mining subsidence over the years. The track has been re-ballasted so many times to keep it level, that the line is now above the parapet walls." (From the window)

 

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FLOODLINE 86
Tuesday 4th March 2008
Floodline No 84 was not issued

ENGINE CLEANERS WANTED
The time is drawing near when we need to have the stored engines in KR CS prepared for movement to HY Engine House. Exhibits have been gathering dust since June last year and this is an appeal to have them looking their best before movement. Saturdays and Sundays 8 and 9 March report to BY DSM then to KR CS and report to KR C+W staff. Cleaning materials available for mainly removing dust and axle boxes need oiling.

HIGHLEY
Missing point and track in the station area complete.
Track from level crossing to Engine House should be complete by end of day Wednesday
Cattle dock wall complete,all posts and fencing replaced and brick flooring being laid.
Down Home signal straightened from “leaning”
Members, shareholders and staff are asked to keep away from the Engine House and not attempt to go there unless for arranged business purposes. We have had many just walk up to the EH expecting to be allowed to walk around or even be shown around. This is still a construction site and therefore dangerous. In case you are not aware we open this month not next month and staff at the EH have enough to do without being distracted from essential work.

BORLE VIADUCT
All the gabion rock baskets now in place in the river.
Rock for the repaired embankment is now about four feet below track level and should all be in place with ballast by end of day Friday 7th
Bridgnorth P Way gang will on Sunday 9th replace the missing two rail lengths and rejoin the SVR into one line for the first time since June.

FOLLY POINT
Contractors charged with laying concrete troughing by Friday. Next weekend S+T gang to install new cabling over this point.

ELAN VALLEY AQUEDUCT CAR PARK
Contractors have now vacated this area and should be reopened soon

NORTHWOOD LANE
Now open to traffic below the slip. Contractors making good the roadway used through the field. Contractors have replaced neary all the damaged fencing in this area or made good.

KIDDERMINSTER
TPO 80300 has arrived last week from Highley and was washed before entering the paint shop
Black 5 45110 left last week by road for a visit to the West Somerset Spring Gala
42968 failed in service last Saturday with a leaking tube. Cl 20 deputised.
5164 worked Sunday
46443 working Driver Experience trains five days this week.

TRAFMAN’s TRACKS No 3 Sunday 9th March
This walk is for SVR working members only. Meet at Bewdley Station Platform 1 at 10.30am
Walk to Arley along the railway and return via the eastern bank of the River Severn (at your own pace). Stiff walk along the ballast so only for those fit and be well prepared for the weather and ground conditions. Back by mid afternoon, visiting Northwood and Folly Point (above and below!). Eymore Cutting, the famous siphon, and Victoria Bridge (above and below!).

Monday 10th March
Cl 73,47383(Jinty),4 hoppers and Shark Ballast Plough Bridgnorth to Kidderminster
Then Cl 20 and 7 hoppers and plough to work ballast trains for next five days
47383 to be turned at KR for move to HY Engine House.

Dewi Jones, Traffic Manager



So as you can tell, almost there.

 

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FLOODLINE 87
Friday 7th March 2008

HIGHLEY
Track from crossing to EH in place with sleepers and rail being cast in concrete today

BORLE VIADUCT
The embankment has now been rebuilt
The base ballast for the sleepers is now in place
Large crawler bucket used to feed material over the brook left site today
S+T concrete channel laid. The site cabin has been removed from FX to give better visibility for the reopening

Saturday 8th March
Cl 20 on log clearance in Eymore Cutting

Sunday 9th
Cl 20 on log clearance in Eymore Cutting
Cl 73 on S+T train at Trimpley working with SVR road railer cable ploughing and
laying concrete channels
BH P Way gang will replace the two panels at Borle Viaduct to rejoin the SVR into one piece for the first time in 9 months
BH P Way gang will finish off connecting the track from HY station to the level crossing

Monday 10th
Cl 73,Jinty 47383 and hopper train BH to KR, swap engines so that Cl 20 will work ballast trains. These will be loaded at Eardington.
Jinty to be turned before Friday for movement to EH

Tuesday 11th
Ballast dropping Northwood Tarmac in front of EH

Wednesday 12th March
Tamper due to be delivered ready to start tamping Northwood,Folly Point and Eymore
on Mon 17th March
Ballast dropping Folly Point Tarmac in front of EH

Thursday 13th March
Ballast dropping Eymore Tarmac in front of EH

Friday 14th
Ballast dropping Eymore and Borle Viaduct
Cl 20 to be returned to KR and swap with 73 to go back to BH
Display goods train to be moved from KR to HY EH

Saturday 15th
Form up rail exhibits for the Engine House in KR carriage shed

Sunday 16th
Movement of rail exhibits from KR to HY Engine House
Movement of 1501 from BH to HY Engine House

Monday 17th
Tamping Northwood and Folly Point

Tuesday 18th
Tamping Eymore Cutting

Wednesday 19th
Tamping Eymore Cutting,Kinlet Straight and possibly Borle Viaduct?

Friday 21st Reopening of SVR and opening of Engine House, 5 engine service,45 minute interval.
Visiting Engine Somerset and Dorset Railway No 88 from the West Somerset Railway

Dewi Jones
Traffic Manager

42968
The engine had been withdrawn last weekend from service with a leaking tube. Other tubes removed for inspection showed no sign of the rapid deterioration the offending tube had done – possibly a manufacturing fault?. Steam tested today and back in service. Try to imagine how you would change a tube 13 miles from home and the logistics of moving 3 tubes, the associated equipment and staff. Much easier to move the engine!

Engines booked for this weekend 4566 off BH,42968 off BY/KR

 

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Quick update.

Today the SVR will be connected for the first time since 9 months. Ballasting and a few jobs needed

 

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Today at around 12:45 the first engineers train from Bridgnorth to Kidderminster arrived .

The line is now connected

Things to do now include the rest of line side and other jobs and of course, paying for it all.

Roll on Good Friday which is when public services start

 

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FLOODLINE 89
Wednesday 12th March 2008

Somerset and Dorset Railway engine No 88 arrived yesterday at Kidderminster from the West Somerset Railway ready to operate services over the Easter weekend.

This afternoon a track tamper was also delivered ready for work on Monday and Tuesday next week to pack and level the newly ballasted sections of track.

Contractors laying base tarmac outside EH (ahead of schedule)

Northwood, Folly Point and Eymore Cutting to Victoria Bridge have all been ballasted this week.

Thursday morning Track at Borle Viaduct will be ballasted
Thursday afternoon Final adjustment of track into the engine house
More tarmac in front of EH
Friday More tarmac in front of EH
Cl 20 to move 46443 from Bewdley to Bridgnorth for outstanding repairs

Monday 17th 5764 to be taken by road from KR to Mid Hants Railway to perform at its “Day out with Thomas” event

Sometime next week 45110 returning from WRS to KR

Dewi Jones
Traffic Manager

 

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FLOODLINE 90
Monday 17th March 2008

No longer is the reopening of the line this year or this month its now THIS WEEK. For the next three days work continues with ballast tamping and afterwards a top dressing of ballast at four or five sites between Bewdley and Borle Viaduct. This will bring these areas back to line speed and therefore we hope no temporary speed restrictions throughout the length of the line. The S+T Dept will be out for two days with a train to continue repairs and additional improvement works.

Friday 14th March
Class 08 D3022 took the goods display train from Kidderminster to Highley. This train had been stored in the carriage shed since last year was accompanied by Jinty No 47383. This engine became the first item of rolling stock to enter the Engine House and was propelled in by a Cl 73. Experience showed that a Class 08 shunting diesel was more appropriate for this work and this was used to move in the remainder of the goods train.

Sunday 16th March
Three trains left Kidderminster this morning Cl 20 No 8188 hauling 7325,TPO 80300 and 1000, followed by Cl 73101 hauling 600,followed by Cl 37906 hauling 4930,coach 21254 (used as staff transport) and 80079. Train 4 came from Bridgnorth with 1501 and the breakdown coach. By mid morning twelve engines were present at Highley. With only some slight adjustments all went to plan and by 4.30pm trains and staff were making their way back to their originating stations. In all about fifty members of staff were involved today. It was great to see staff arriving from both ends of the line by train for the first time in nine months to achieve a common aim. Steam crews worked alongside diesel crews, guards worked with shunters, Highley Station, Engine House and other staff assisted in many ways.

Engine House
With all rail exhibits now inside the staff here over the next three days will rush to get as many of the smaller exhibits sorted and attach ramps and platforms to access rail vehicles. Work continues over the next three days to lay the top tarmac surface outside the EH, tidy up the level crossing, place inserts in the flangeways, landscaping, planting shrubs, fencing, gates, surfacing paths, erecting some temporary fencing, signage and the list goes on.
The EH opens 10.00am on Friday 21st March. Be aware that there is next to no parking available at HY as much of the site and car park is still used by contractors vehicles, offices, messrooms, and storage areas for equipment and materials.
Entry to the Engine house is free to SVR working members showing a current WM pass

Good Friday 21st March Table D
Loco allocation (facing North or South)
7812 (S) first off BH with southbound reopening train (LMS set)
7802 (S) light engine to Bewdley to work second off KR (LNER set)
45110 (N) first off KR with northbound reopening train (Red and Cream MK1s)
88 (N) third off KR (Maroon MK1s)
5164 (?) fourth off KR (Set GW2)

Watch out for some news coverage on midlands area TV on Thursday evening announcing the reopening of the line.

Dewi Jones
Traffic Manager

 

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Ladies and Gentlemen,

After 9 months, 90 floodlines, 97 replys, 7 pages, over 5,200 views, from 20th of June 2007 to 19th of March 2008 and countless shuttles.

THE SEVERN VALLEY RAILWAY IS NOW FULLY OPEN AGAIN

Here is the final map, all green guys, all green!

Tomorrow is the first day general public can see for themselves how the line has changed.

Best Regards








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FLOODLINE 92
Thursday 20th March

Another significant day in the history of the SVR. Nine months to the day since the line closed , the first train conveying passengers traversed the whole length of the line from Kidderminster to Bridgnorth and back .

THE LINE HAS NOW REOPENED AND TRAINS WILL RUN THE LENGTH OF THE LINE ON FRIDAY 21st MARCH

Engine 7812 “Erlestoke Manor” ran light engine from Bridgnorth to Kidderminster this morning and after welcoming and thank you speeches under the canopy at Kidderminster and Charlie Dimmock (of the TV programme “Groundforce” fame) smashing a bottle of champagne over the buffer beam of 7812 the train left for Bridgnorth.
The train carried about 250 invited guests and on the return journey stopped at Highley for them to visit the Engine House.

There are plans to run further “thank you” trains for SVR staff, contractors and other who could not be accommodated on today’s train. An announcement to staff will be made via an internal notice board issue.

Just to note that although the line has reopened, not all the bills have been paid, not all the repairs have been completed but Floodlines will continue to be issued for any worthy news.

Dewi Jones
Traffic Manager