Dissolution
On 14 February 2010 the Stratford on Avon and Broadway Railway Society (1999) Limited was dissolved because "...with little chance of opening the line between Stratford and Honeybourne within the next 10 years and the fewer volunteers, we only had two choices: find a new home or sell the stock". The Stratford on Avon and Broadway Railway Trust (a separate body) still exists.
It was envisaged that the rolling stock would be moved to the Berkeley Vale Railway which plans to use the Sharpness Branch Line. This plan did not come to fruition so an alternative plan was devised. Some of the stock will be sold and the remainder will be loaned to other railway societies. The Somerset & Dorset Railway Heritage Trust took delivery of two ex-Navy goods vans and a two-car diesel multiple unit on loan in October/November 2011.
The SBR website still exists (October 2012) but it is seriously out-of-date and makes no mention of these developments.
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