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Bridgnorth station was not the northern terminus when built, but the main intermediate station of the Severn Valley line being {{frac|18|1|4}} miles from [[Hartlebury]] and {{frac|22|1|2}} miles from [[Shrewsbury]]. Bridgnorth station was opened to the public on 1 February 1862,<ref name=Butt>{{cite book |last=Butt |first=R.V.J. |title=The Directory of Railway Stations |year=1995 |publisher=Patrick Stephens Ltd |location=Yeovil |isbn=1-85260-508-1 |id=R508 |page=44 }}</ref> prompting great celebrations in the town. Originally under SVR Company ownership, it was passed to [[Great Western Railway]] (GWR), and eventually [[British Railways]] in 1948. It closed to passengers after 101 years on 9 September 1963,<ref name=Butt /> and to freight traffic on 30 November 1963.
The neo-Jacobean station is the only listed station on the [[Severn Valley Railway]] and is in process of restoration work by a team of dedicated volunteers.{{cn|date=December 2022}}
The licensed refreshment room, these days known as The Railwaymans Arms, is situated on platform 1. It opened in 1861 and never closed, being extended twice by the SVR, and now needing further extension due to its unique character and popularity.{{cn|date=December 2022}}
===Stationmasters===
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==Preservation==
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[[File:BR Standard Class 4 4-6-0 75069 Locomotive Severn Valley Railway (1).jpg|thumb|right|The opposite end of Bridgnorth facing south, October 2022.]]
After only two years of closure preservationists had plans for Bridgnorth, resulting in the formation of the Severn Valley Railway Society. Vegetation was cleared, railway bric-a-brac was collected and the station buildings were refurbished. Although the original signal box was substantially demolished (only three sides of the bottom brick part and interlocking are original, the brick base was originally somewhat longer), Bridgnorth station was never damaged through this demolition activity. From then on preservation gained momentum until the present day. Bridgnorth became the engineering centre of the new SVR because of the need to repair the growing numbers of rolling stock items and locomotives after opening to the public when the first train steamed from Bridgnorth to [[Hampton Loade railway station|Hampton Loade]] in May 1970.
Sir [[Gerald Nabarro]],
The station is reached from High Town via a modern footbridge over a main road and a valley, the present bridge having opened in 1994. This replacement tubular steel bridge occupies the site of a lattice bridge closed and demolished several years previously. A section of the original footbridge adorns the centre island of one of the road traffic [[roundabout]]s.
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==Locomotive works==
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[[File:Severn Valley Railway Bridgnorth Engine Shed.jpg|thumb|right|The Shed from the outside in August 2023.]]
The main locomotive works for the SVR are located at Bridgnorth. They are not normally open to the public because of health and safety regulations but conducted tours and open days are arranged from time to time. Major features of the locomotive works include the Boiler Shop, the machine shop equipped with a Noble and Lund [[wheel lathe]] and ex-LT lifting jacks along with other equipment in the general fitting area.
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