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The LNER (SVR) Coach Fund was formed in summer 1976, initially to purchase LNER Brake Third Open 23834 (later 16600), then in use at Gateshead as a work study coach numbered DE 320942.<ref>SVR News 44</ref> This duly arrived on the SVR, but unfortunately proved to be in worse condition than thought, resulting in a period of storage at Highley followed by eventual scrapping for parts recovery.<ref>Article in SVR News 56, “LNER(SVR) Coach Fund Notes”</ref> Parts recovered from 16600 are incorporated in most restored LNER carriages on SVR, but unfortunately no photographs of it have come to light.
In late 1978 the Fund’s next acquisition was [[LNER 24068 Composite Corridor Brake | LNER Composite Corridor Brake 24068]], already at the SVR under private ownership. Further purchases of LNER rolling stock followed, including [[LNER 43600 Open Third | Open Third 43600]] and [[LNER 70759 Gangwayed Full Brake/Pigeon Van| BTK (Corridor Brake 3rd) 70759]]. In On 20 December 2010 ownership of these three carriages was transferred to the [[Severn Valley Railway Charitable Trust Ltd | SVR Charitable Trust]]; <ref>SVR News 177</ref> at the same time the [[The LNER Carriage Group | LNER Carriage Group]] was formed as a department within the Trust, having common volunteers with the Fund<ref>Coach Fund web site</ref>.
For a time the Fund owned Gresley Composite Corridor Brake [[Carriages formerly resident on the SVR|GNR 229 ]](later LNER 4229 and BR mess van TDE 320700) which arrived at Bewdley in 1977 having been acquired by [[The 4150 Fund]] as a mess van.<ref>SVR Stock Book 7th Edition</ref> It was later used by the LNER (SVR) Coach Fund as a workshop and was considered a candidate for future restoration for service. However in 1994 the Fund announced that 229 was to be sold, partly to fund the purchase of [[GNR 2701 Composite Corridor|GNR 2701]] and partly to free up space.<ref>SVR News 112</ref> It left for Llangollen in 1995,<ref>SVR News 118</ref> where its restoration in 2018 featured in Channel 4's TV Series 'Great Rail Restorations with Peter Snow'.<ref>[http://www.cs.vintagecarriagestrust.org/se/CarriageInfo.asp?Ref=853 Railway Heritage Register Carriage Survey]</ref>
