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February 29, 2016  •  Leave a Comment

50035, 50044, 50049, "Class 50"50044_50035_50049_20160220_0150044 Exeter, 50035 Ark Royal & 50049 Defiance at Severn Valley Railway, Kidderminster - Railways Illustrated (2016), May, pp. 36

Over the last 20 years the majority of the diesel fleet on the Severn Valley Railway have been maintained out in the open yard at Kidderminster. A consortium of the locomotive-owning groups and the railway itself embarked on a project to provide better facilities at Kidderminster.

The culmination of this project was the construction of a new diesel maintenance shed which was finally completed in early 2016. This facility has three separate roads, a full-length pit and a heavy-lifting crane.

Seeing three locomotives from The Fifty Fund all being maintained under one roof evoked memories of the class at Oak Oak Common and Laira depots in the 1980s.

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