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Severn Valley Rail
1940's 2008 annual event Another Success
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| 0600 Riveille
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Ferret Fuelled up
and ready
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Home Guard
Registration
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| Clothing Rations
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Wartime Hair Net
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Silk Stockings
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| 'I shall only say
this once'!
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Air raid on the
sidings
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Fire viewed from
safe distance
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| Morning Departure
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'Wish me luck as
you waive me goodbye'
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Sailors
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| Air Raid Siren
practice
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Air Force Overseas
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GI Girls
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| The waiting seat
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Track Maintenance
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5764 Tank Loco |
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| 46443 Loco
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Kind Station
Porters
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4566 Tank Loco
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| GWR Driver
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Bewdley station
next stop
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Approaching Highley
Station
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| Red Hat &
Gloves
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Air force Goodbye's
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Stop me and buy
anything
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| Clear the station
for battle
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Spectators in the
sunshine
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Mock Battle
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| Mock Battle
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Germans in action
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Don't like the
bangs!
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| Rapid fire
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Spectators
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Churchill's speech
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| Churchill's escort
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That way!
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German Red Cross
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| German troops
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Princess Elizabeth
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Nearly Full
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| At Rest
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Glen Miller
Entertainment
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2000hrs Saturday
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| Seated for the show
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All Home again
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More ladies with
red Hats!
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| Boy Scout and his
girl
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Having a good day
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All Friends
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| Air Force
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A Warm Place
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Peaceful evening
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| Air Raid
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Near Miss!
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Serious fire in the
sidings
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| Fire Fighters in
the heat
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Devastated and
destitute
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This is the plan
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| Anyone there?
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Big Loco
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More plans
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| Princess Elizabeth
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Shunting
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Time to go
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| Xmas Films
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Looking forward
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Fill her up
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| Spitfire &
Hurricane over Kidderminster |
The 'Last' |
The 'Last' |
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| Moment for thought
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'I remember firing'
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Someone borrowed my
Wellies!
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| Directions
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Well dressed
Germans
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Nostalgia
collecting team
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| Don't mess here!
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Passing through
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Still watching out
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| Now for the desert
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Look Serious?
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Another good story
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| Our veterans
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Hello there
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More Happy Times
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| This is how it
really was
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Next!
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Another good story
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| Wow!
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Another good story
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Having a good day
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| Well Done Steve
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Hello
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Final Word
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| Man with a mission
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What a noise
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Just block it out!
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| That's better
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The Meeting place
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| Another disguise
Robert
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The Highlander
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Another Veteran
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| Senior Veteran
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That is how it was
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More Happy times
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| The
Best of France
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Resting Wives
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The seaman RNVR
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| Ray Weston and
Company
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Lots of experience
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Glider pilot that
came home with a story
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| The Bagpipe Piper
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Authority
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Brief summer
freshener
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| Drying out
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Taking it all in
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GI Girls |
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| Another generation
of warriors
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What?
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Pause
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| Helping hand
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Happy Frau
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All's well that
ends well
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Pictures from
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2007 Saturday evening .. A very busy Station at
war |
OOPS was that were I parked? |
LATEST Normal service now resumed |
Spectacular NFS Demonstration of Hose power with
Visual and sound effects that re-create a terrible vision of war on the
railway |
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Thanks to all the Volunteers who put on a brave
face and despite further rain, the 40's week was the best year EVER! |
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Allo Allo
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Morning departure ..All aboard
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The Red Cross
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Insurgent?
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Bewdley? or is it?
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Nice Cuppa for
Volunteers
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Just used up my last coupons Betty
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Sailors, ...this one anyway ..
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..Said lots of goodbye's
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One of the 'unusual' Weddings ... Between air raids at
Bewdley |
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Hardy perennial starting to lean a bit!
No lack of enthusiasm from Peter Haskett |
Innocence of the next generation
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The pleasure of travelling with SVR live steam
in the Severn Valley.
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Fabulous 40's dance music almost 24/7 ! |
Shadows of one of our greatest leaders |
OUR
'Churchill' at Severn Valley Railway 40s event Saturday
night 'RAID' |
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Your papers? .. Please get them before leaving
Kidderminster!
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Robert Burns .. Churchill's impersonator with speechesTel:- 01922 641101
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mmaculate .. ' RSM' Tony with his Jeep, leads Churchill's convoy
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The next generation, training
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'Dads Army'... Captain Mannering with Cpl Jones the
Butcher's modified delivery van.... With 'Gun portholes' in the sides
for home guard rifles. A very popular photo opportunity.
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Tony Perry selling 'Black Market goodies' to the
Navy!!!!
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Thanks are due
to Malcolm Broadhurst and Steve and all the very hard worked team. There are vast
improvements this year to the station at Kidderminster
now undercover and very well organised ...Breakfast at 8am in the new
restaurant went very well.
Visitors enjoyed the 'low flying Merlins engines sounds' .. so realistic.. with
the air raids. Provided by .. Link Communications http://www.linkcomms.co.uk
They say old
soldiers never die! Some are still here, their memories and stories are
told in vivid detail if you ask ... so they will never be forgotten
anyway!
As a child I
sheltered during the German 'Air raids' under our Oak dining table with
my little sister and listened to the beat of German diesel powered
bombers going over our home. We were very lucky when a 1000lb bomb
dropped 3 doors away and did not go off! (St Peter's Maney Church Sutton Coldfield)
The bombers were looking for our Spitfire Aeroplane factory at Castle Bromwich,
and Coventry industries nearby. My greatest fear as a child of 7 was, if the
Germans came we would be made into tinned meat! My only comforting thought was
perhaps I would be in the same tin as my girlfriend! (How a child's
innocent mind works!!) Simple things like a jar of jam, a
home laid chicken egg, and a piece of chocolate were our luxuries. A
banana once came, sent to us by my uncle Alan from where he
trained as a
Fleet Air Arm pilot, I thought, then that Bananas were all black! He died in
1944 in his plane. Thankfully my Uncle Phil came back from 'D' day at
Normandy and much worse Walcheren with shot up LCT in a dry dock mother
ship, his photos tell a terrible story, taken
from his bridge whilst his cargo of 7 Sherman Tanks and unfortunate soldiers
landed on the beach. One of his pictures shows a direct
mortar hit on a 'Weasel' going down his LCT ramp, none of his landed soldiers
survived the beach crossing.
Please visit
Arromanches and the museum where 'Mulberry' harbour was set up, Some
remains to this day.
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