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15 October 2014
WW2 - People's War

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Severn Valley Railway
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The Severn Valley Railway is now nationally known as a major heritage steam railway. It operates for sixteen miles along the beautiful Severn Valley between Kidderminster in Worcestershire and Bridgnorth in Shropshire.

Although the line was opened in the 1860's the advent of the motor lorry in the 1930's spelt disaster for freight traditionally carried along the line.

The movement of troops and equipment during World War II gave reprieve to the line in the 1940's but the arrival of the motor car in the 1950's proved its final downfall.

Now in its 40th Anniversary Year, The Severn Valley Railway is happy to be involved in the WW2 Peoples War project.

We hope that you will enjoy contributing your wartime experiences connected with railways and trains. They do not need to be specifically related to the Severn Valley line but if they are, so much the better.

Stories contributed by Severn Valley Railway

Christmas with the Germans
Watching Coventry Glowicon for Recommended story
Playing Tipcat and Other Tales
To India with the Naval Maintenance Repair Unit
The Second Master at Tettenhall College, Wolverhampton
A Doodle Bug
Ack-Ack
American Soldiers based in Rhyll
Bombs over Wolverhampton
A Crashed Wellington Bomber in Digbeth
Memories of Dymchurch
My Father in the Home Guard
My Mother's Recollection
Our Journey to Liverpool for the Treatment of Ringworm
School in Handsworth, Birmingham
US Troops at Camp Bewdley, Worcestershire
Soho Road, Handsworth on Fire
War Years at Grandmother's Home
My Front Door was Blown off its Hinges!
FLYING RIGHT FOR COVENTRY
The Twins Who Were Evacuated to Dawley
A Child in World War II
Vackies
Family Values 1
Family Values 2
Bombing
Wartime Journeys
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The War Years 1 - Life in Aldridge
The War Years 2 - Buses
The War Years 3 - Waste not want not
The War Years 4 - Train travel
The War Years 5 - Planes
The War Years 6 - VE day in Aldridge
Memories of air raids over Dunlop's factory
Salvage Collecting in Shrewsbury
Seeing tanks from my pram
"Your father's not dead, he's a POW"
A Ghostly Walk in Beverley
Seeing Birmingham Burn
Liverpool to Llanelli
Hop picking as War broke out
THE DAY OUR WINDOWS WERE BLOWN IN
Memories of Burma
OUR NAVY HERO
CHATTING WITH ITALIAN P.O.W.S!
MY FATHER GOT THE DCM FOR BRAVERY IN THE FIELD
Memories of Beverley
Royston Bombing
Smoke Screens
From Boston to Bonn
Working at a Restaurant in Royston
In St John's Ambulance in Royston
'Got any Gum Chum' - Christopher Eynon
Child in the War
My school in Birmingham hit by a landmine just after my evacuation to Wales
Child's wartime in Lancashire
My Encounter with Japanese POWs
A child's countryside war
Resistance Fighter from Yugoslavia
Dunlop Tyre factory in Manchester bombed
Wartime Recollections of a young child
My Family in World War 2
My Dad's Citation
Bath Heavily Raided
Belsen and the Daily Mirror
Childhood in Birmingham
Twins in Birmingham
Birmingham bombs then into the Army
Childhood Memories
From Boston to Bonn
My Wartime Recollections concerning the Severn Valley Railway
God save St Pauls'
Long Ago
Memories of the War. The very last day for some!
A wartime childhood in Smethwick
A child in the War
Flying Fortresses and Halifaxes
Evacuated to Cheltenham
A Birmingham Childhood
War time memories of Birmingham
Home Front in Birmingham
Women's Auxillary Air Force 1944-1947
memories of the ATS
Basic Training in Chelmsford
Hop Picking through the War
Evacuated to Weston Super Mare
A cockney works for M.I.5
Royal Air Force Memories from Blackpool to India
Four years in the ATS
Childhood in Birmingham
Gas masks in School
Praying
My father helps during the bombing raids

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