There's something special about a visit to the Severn Valley Steam Railway! The sights and sounds we experience allow us to travel back in time to the 1940's. It is now how it was then. Add the re-enactors and the past is re-created and re-visited.
Attracting tourists from all over the world the Severn Valley Railway is also a highly popular venue for 1940s re-enactments. Usually their WWII Weekends feature vintage military vehicles, plenty of music and entertainment, battle re-enactments, re-enactors in civilian dress and uniform, exhibitions and displays at every station and flypast from a World War II spitfire!
Shoppers can enjoy plenty of bargains on sale at the many stalls and there's also vintage clothes, shoes, hats and lots of memorabilia and bric a brac.
During WWII the trains carried troops, military vehicles, resources and weapons across the country and evacuees away from the cities, providing ambulance and armoured support alongside the track. Often a frequent target of enemy attacks, the railways and their workers played a vital role in WWII.
