Image D9551, 10.00 Bridgnorth-Kidderminster, Arley station
D9551, 10.00 Bridgnorth-Kidderminster, Arley station
D9551, 10.00 Bridgnorth-Kidderminster, Arley station The second train of our visit to the Severn Valley's diesel gala arrives at Arley station. Class 14 D9551 is leading the 10.00 Bridgnorth to Kidderminster train that we took the short distance back to Bewdley. The Class 17s were built at Swindon and were actually a good design despite them having non-standard hydraulic transmission (as was deemed later by BR). The problem was that they were built for work that had largely gone from the railways by the end of the 1960s hence they were rendered redundant. Nearly all found work on industrial lines and survived into the 1980s, many years longer than they worked on the national network! No fewer than nineteen of the fifty-six built have been preserved with this example in the care of the Severn Valley Railway Class 14 Company Ltd following its working life at Corby steelworks coming to an end in 1981. Keywords: D9551 10.00 Bridgnorth-Kidderminster Arley station Teddy Bear
D9551, 10.00 Bridgnorth-Kidderminster, Arley station The second train of our visit to the Severn Valley's diesel gala arrives at Arley station. Class 14 D9551 is leading the 10.00 Bridgnorth to Kidderminster train that we took the short distance back to Bewdley. The Class 17s were built at Swindon and were actually a good design despite them having non-standard hydraulic transmission (as was deemed later by BR). The problem was that they were built for work that had largely gone from the railways by the end of the 1960s hence they were rendered redundant. Nearly all found work on industrial lines and survived into the 1980s, many years longer than they worked on the national network! No fewer than nineteen of the fifty-six built have been preserved with this example in the care of the Severn Valley Railway Class 14 Company Ltd following its working life at Corby steelworks coming to an end in 1981. Keywords: D9551 10.00 Bridgnorth-Kidderminster Arley station Teddy Bear


The second train of our visit to the Severn Valley's

diesel gala arrives at Arley station. Class 14 D9551 is leading the 10.00 Bridgnorth to Kidderminster train that we took the short distance back to Bewdley. The Class 17s were built at Swindon and were actually a good design despite them having non-standard hydraulic transmission (as was deemed later by BR). The problem was that they were built for work that had largely gone from the railways by the end of the 1960s hence they were rendered redundant. Nearly all found work on industrial lines and survived into the 1980s, many years longer than they worked on the national network! No fewer than nineteen of the fifty-six built have been preserved with this example in the care of the Severn Valley Railway Class 14 Company Ltd following its working life at Corby steelworks coming to an end in 1981.