Severn Valley Railway

On this trip we went to Severn Valley Railway. This is a steam railway that runs between Kidderminster in Worcestershire and Bridgnorth in Shropshire. We got on the train in Bridgnorth, travelled to Highley (to look at the Engine House), then on to Kidderminster. The return journey was straight through from Kidderminster to Bridgnorth. George loved this trip. In common with quite a few people with autism, he loves trains, so this trip was a birthday treat for him 🙂

The theming of the stations along the railway is brilliant. You could almost imagine yourself being there in the 1950s/60s. The engines and railway carriages are also authentic. There is a carriage that has been altered so that it is wheelchair accessible. The doors are slightly wider, there’s a ramp available to get into the carriage, and some of the seats have been removed so that wheelchair users can remain in their wheelchairs.

If you are travelling on a train that does not have the wheelchair accessible carriage attached and you are able to transfer to the train, the guard will put the wheelchair in the guard’s van and you get to travel in a first class carriage, for no extra charge. This happened to us on the first leg of our journey from Bridgnorth to Highley. The seats in the first class carriage were very comfortable and we could have quite happily ridden first class all day!

We didn’t get as much filming done as we would have liked to do at Kidderminster station, as a small boy kind of latched on to us and we were very wary of having him included in our video.

We had a good day out and we’d definitely go to Severn Valley Railway again 🙂