The Severn Valley Railway is hosting some post-Christmas services for people to enjoy.

From the 26th to 28th December and 30th December to 2nd January, visitors can take advantage of their range of festive services.

The Winter Diesel Day will make its return on the 29th December, with a range of visiting locomotives joining their home fleet.

Locomotives featuring in this event currently include:

• Class 37s 37418 and 37508 – courtesy of LORAM and Steve Beniston
• Class 17 ‘Clayton’ D8568
• Class 20 No. 20048
• Class 33 No. 33108
• Class 46 No. 46045
• Class 50s 50007 and 50033 ‘Glorious’
• Class 52 Western D1015 ‘Western Champion’

The railway is also hosting its New Year’s Eve Special, operating four round-trip trains, allowing people to celebrate the new year in style.

The series of events comes to a close with their Winter Steam Gala on the 3rd and 4th January, featuring six resident locomotives:

• GWR locomotives 1450, 7714 and 7802 ‘Bradley Manor’
• Stanier Mogul LMS 13268 and BR Standard 75069
• 4930 ‘Hagley Hall’ (Saturday)

Further information on SVR’s events is available on their website.

“Featuring home-fleet and visiting locomotives, the event promises a busy timetable between Kidderminster and Bridgnorth, plus a couple of special guest locomotives, all of which makes for a guaranteed crowd-pleasing event.”

“Our two-day festival of steam will feature six locomotives from the home fleet, operating a busy timetable between Kidderminster and Bridgnorth. We’re expecting more than 2,000 visitors, and this is a wonderful way to round things off before we go into our six-week annual maintenance shutdown.”

Gus Dunster, the SVR’s managing director