The Severn Valley Railway operates steam passenger trains between Bridgnorth, Bewdley and Kidderminster. Trains run each weekend and daily May to Sep and local college vacations. The most effective way to see the great thing about the Brook Severn is from a steam-hauled train on the Severn Valley Train line .The Severn Valley Train line has had its home in the city of Bridgnorth, Shropshire since 1965.
Refreshments will be available at stations and on most trains. Luncheon trains run each Sun. The sixteen mile long Severn Valley Steam Train line in Bridgnorth, Shropshire hosts a collection of specialised events across the year. The 1978 screen version of The Thirty-Nine Steps was partially filmed on the train line particularly, the scenes where Hannay ( Robert Powell ) hangs from Victoria Bridge.
The scene is meant to be set in Scotland, and the landscape is extremely out of kilter for that area. Portions of The Seven-Per-Cent Solution were filmed on the train line. The BBC Television children's series God's Glorious Train line ( 1980 ) was filmed on the SVR. The Bridgnorth station was employed in 1981 as an element of a sketch for the Television comedy Not the 9 O'Clock Reports . In the sketch, Mel Smith's personality observes a steam train passing by without stopping and pertains to it as an "old chuffer", forming part of a sequence of jokes round the protagonist's better half. In 1984, scenes for the BBC Television series The District Nurse were videoed at Bewdley station.
Also in 1984, Arley train line station was employed for the BBC Television adaption of The Box of Pleasures . The SVR featured in the BBC TV's 1987 adaption of Agatha Christie's Miss Marple novel 4.50 From Paddington.Scenes were shot in and around Bewdley station. Scenes featuring LMS 4MT no. 43106 were included in the 1987 Television serial Knights of Our Lord God. The train line was employed for the 1990s comedy Oh, Doctor Beeching!, featuring Paul Shane, Su Pollard and Jeffrey Holland. The exterior shots for the series filmed in Arley station, where a fake row of cottages was momentarily erected in the goods yard.
The ITV family drama film Goodnight Mister Tom had its station sequences in the early spring at Arley station for which trains ran through without stopping for a couple of weeks. In the 2005 film, The Chronicles of Narnia : The Lion, the Hag and the Wardrobe GWR Estate no. 7802 Bradley Estate appeared as the train that brought the Pevensies to the closest station to the Professor's house.