Around 30m (32yds) of the Severn Valley Railway (SVR) track and track bed was damaged in a landslip on 30 January. A section of the track is impassable after the embankment collapsed about 300m (328yds) north of Sterns on the Shropshire section of the line. The affected area lies between SVR’s northern terminus station at Bridgnorth and the smaller Hampton Loade station.

Gus Dunster, SVR’s managing director, said they were grateful to supporters who have donated money, with almost £36,000 being raised in the first few days of the online appeal.

The railway is workign with experts from Network Rail on a plan to assess and repair the landslip. Adam Checkley, from Network Rail, said they believed the damage was storm-related. “It’s the river and the sheer power of the river that’s probably taken the wing wall of this particular structure away and the earthwork has followed it through,” he told the BBC. “That’s the initial assumption – we’ll work on that with the teams and the engineering teams to work out exactly what happened but it’s definitely storm-related.” More details here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwy7g5yrvz5o

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The heritage railway runs for 16 miles (28km) from Kidderminster, Worcestershire, to Bridgnorth, Shropshire. Despite four miles (6.4km) of the northern track being unusable the rest of the line – about 12 miles (19.3km) – will be open for use.