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[hearn_p]

Polite enquiry. Is there any update - the website still says construction is hoped to commence in 2009 and the total hasn't moved for a while.

Cheers

Patrick

[d431hood]

Patrick,

We are waiting for the raffle results to be confirmed before updating the total.

We are however still a few tens of thousands of pounds short of being able to fund stage 1. So please keep donating: www.svrdieselshed.co.uk

Thank you

Joe
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[Derby4]

An update has appeared on the Diesel Shed Appeal website:

"15/02/2010: The results of tests on the site of the proposed shed have given the site a clean bill of health. Bore holes and soil tests have confirmed that the site is suitable for building and the surface soil is not as badly contaminated as it might have been."

That must be good news, because contaminated ground was given as a reason for modifying the design of the shed roads and their pits. Hopefully translating now into reduced cost.

I recall the site investigation "man and van" were on site during one of last years big steam galas. I hope it hasn't taken them that long to produce their results. Perhaps this was a further survey.

[KJEvans]

That's good, we don't want them to get too dirty and rusty
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No Railway has ever made a bad engine, only ones which aren't quite as good as the others.

Diesels are accepted here (just)

[Derby4]

I am sure their keepers look after them even though stabled outside.

Lets hope they can make progress with the shed in 2010.

Kidderminster yard always looks congested, so I guess making space to actually build the shed is going to take some doing.

[Jurasik]

Just found this on the Wyre Forest Council planning website:
http://www.wyreforest.gov.uk/fastweb/detail.asp?AltRef=10/0079/FULL&ApplicationNumber=&AddressPrefix=&submit1=Go
It's the application for the shed
EDIT: should have looked at the docs. I think this one's for storage units, not the actual shed - sorry.
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[hunter_i]

It is very good news that the professional image of the Railway is continuing to be enhanced with undercover storage, particularly as the new proposed sheds will match the existing shed constructed by the Friends of Kidderminster. This will mean the back of the car park will take on a much more professional image and also remove much material currently around the diesel sidings.

However just one query, in the Kidderminster Station Magazine the following reference was made to the locating the old Bridgnorth bus garage:

The Friends have been given permission to erect a small storage shed near to our existing main storage shed. It is the old G.W.R bus garage from Bridgnorth, dismantled many years ago to make way for Ray Tranter’s caravan! It is an important S.V.R heritage item and deserves to be reinstated.

When it was dismantled it was in rather poor condition, with a fair bit of corrosion in the steelwork at ground level, so our first job will be to repair or replace the framework where necessary, and paint it all prior to erection. As you may have guessed, the Great Western used their famous corrugated iron to clad the building, and this will probably have to be totally replaced. We will be obtaining this in an extra thick gauge, as usual, in line with the original.

The garage is 10ft wide by 30ft long, and being storage for a bus is 12ft 6in to the top of the doors, plenty of headroom for our purpose. It has a curved roof and a window in the back. The original window has been ‘lost’ but we have a very nice iron framed window from a G.W.R building at Droitwich which will fit the bill.

Besides the obvious need to bring this building back to life its reconstruction will further tidy the site, and will allow us to store the Scammell trailer inside for the first time.

With the three proposed new sheds equally spaced around the existing building, I am not sure there will be room for the old shed. It would be a great pity not to be able to preserve such an historic outbuilding.

PS In the attachments to the planning documents there is a picture of a corrugated iron single road engine shed. Such a strange structure would surely make a striking addition to one of the smaller stations, and really capture that "forgotten branch" atmosphere.

[hearn_p]

Update 03/03/2010

The planning application for the new shed and associated spares storage facilities have been submitted. It is expected that the local authority will probably take a few months to review the application. To help fund the project a special day of events is being held at Kidderminster Severn Valley Railway station on the 1st May 2010. More details to follow, but put this date in your diary now.

Has the level of funds in the barometer gone down?

Patrick

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[Derby4]

Joe: Are you likely to make a start on the shed, assuming planning consent is forthcoming ( which I thought was a polite fomality for an exisiting railway) perhaps after the 2010 running season finishes? I say that because I assume there would need to be a fairly radical clear-out of the yard, and space needed to park engines.

[mrmover]

I wouldn't think that the words polite and formality are applicable for ANY planning application, established railway or not. Wyre Forest D.C. will have to consider the merits of all applications received, and will need to show that due process has been followed.

Look at the new container terminal at Telford: an existing railway route, on behalf of the Ministry of Defence, reducing road movements etc. etc. That took several applications and amendments before Telford & Wrekin Council approved the plans.

[Derby4]

Sorry, badly expressed. I thought that we had discussed a couple of years ago that in fact you dont actually need planning permission for a building on existing railway land, but that plans were being submitted "out of courtesy" to the Council.

I stand corrected if that was not actually the case.

[d431hood]

Others with greater brains than mine are dealing with the planning issues.

However we still need to keep the fundrasing going so we can afford whatever we get allowed to build. So please keep donating. Thank you.
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[sharpo]

Looking a few years down the line, so to speak, once the depot is completed and paid for, is there any possibility of extending the depot by adding further, but basic, covered accommodation for more of the diesel fleet?

Not knowing the site or where it is proposed to actually put the new depot, I don't know if this could be done at the side or at the end of the depot.

I suppose quite a chunk of the cost of the new depot is taken up by reinforced floors, pits etc. which would not be be necessary if the locos are just being stabled inside and not undergoing heavy maintenance.
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