Air Raids at the Severn Valley Railway

Two enemy bombers made a daring raid on Kidderminster Station on the Severn Valley Railway of the GWR. Luckily no-one was injured, but a fuel dump caught fire. A shed with a quantity of black market sausages and other goods got hit by an incendiary, and was completely destroyed before the NFS arrived. However the bulk of the valuable fuel was saved for the war effort.

The police rumbled the criminal gang, and last Sunday, the whole lot were arrested just after the firemen put out the fire, and discovered the remains of the black market goods.

NFS at Air Raid on SVR

NFS at Air Raid on SVR

NFS at Air Raid on SVR

Thanks to Adam Bull and Robert Matthews for some of the photos and video.

NFS at Air Raid on SVR

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About lowdhamstation

I am a director of a small (and very technical) business, a committed Christian, a Reader (and preacher) in my local village church, husband to my dear Frances, am interested in heritage railways, and heritage fire engines. I currently run a group that displays wartime and early post-war fire engines at 1940s re-enacting events and steam engine rallies. O yes, and vintage cars and motorbikes, and we live in a Victorian railway station.
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