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Passing trains back on the Severn Valley!

"ALL change!''lhis is an expression we have become used to over the years when a train or bus reached its destination, but this year it has taken on a completely different meaning. Covid-19 has seen to that.

The Severn Valley Railway (SVR) is undergoing its first month of postlockdown timetables that have been cleverly worked out to encourage social distancing.

Three trains a day are running, all arriving and departing stations long after the previous

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