Northwards :The plan to grow North was mooted by groups in the SVR as early as the mid 1970s, the 1st plan was discharged as most unlikely by the then board of the SVR.Nonetheless contemporary successes by others in getting big amounts of money from the Heritage Lotto Fund and the EU Regional Development Fund for example. Have caused this intense view to moderate.
Telford Steam Train line have lately articulated hopes to operate into the Severn Gorge, leading a group to proffer extending the SVR northwards.Westwards:-The previous Tenbury Line trackbed is significantly untouched so far as Newnham Bridge station before it is hemmed in by modern development. Nevertheless several underbridges are missing, including the famous Dowles Viaduct over the brook Severn, a span over the Bewdley to Bridgnorth road and a brick span at Cleobury. Added to this are the same issues in relation to land possession, realignments of roads at previous bridge sites and possible shortage of custom at the Newnham Bridge end.
Eastwards:-There had been an offer for a Wolverhampton and Bridgnorth Light Train line in 1896. Additional details shows the line of the suggested train line bordered the lane between Sutton Mill and Sutton Farm, Dog Dog house and land owned by a Henry Cavendish Cavendish and Bridgnorth Agricultural District Council. Reports exist that before WW2 there had been an offer to link the Severn Valley Line with the Wombourne Branch.Though a section was pegged out and some earthworks carried out the line was ultimately deserted. There is believed to be some proof of such a spur from the Severn Valley Line right away south of Crossing Cottage near Eardington.
Southwards:-Between Burlish and Stourport station, the alignment of the previous Bewdley to Hartlebury section has been obliterated by housing and is lost forever. Nevertheless from the Hartlebury direction the trackbed is untouched as a bridleway from Mitton ( the eastern throat of the first station ), with only a span over the A449 Worcester to Kidderminster main road missing. The abutments are untouched. About all the trackbed is in Council possession and they have lately voiced an interest in reopening as a commuter line. The purpose of this offer is misleading. A proposal has been manufactured by 1 or 2 SVR members to reinstate the track from Bewdley to Burlish ( therefore reinstating Bewdley's standing as a junction station ) as a predecessor to an extension northwards.