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[[File:SVR_News_200_Cover.jpg|thumb|300px|right|Severn Valley Railway News]]
'''Severn Valley Railway News''' ("SVR News") is the quarterly magazine of the [[Severn Valley Railway Company Limited]] provided free to its members, and on sale for £3 {{As of|20202021|lc=y}} at [[List of shops|SVR shops]]. The first edition was published in November 1965, three months after the [[Severn Valley Railway Timeline 1965-1969#1965|meeting at the Cooper’s Arms ]] which resulted in the formation of the [[Severn Valley Railway Society]].
==Format, publication and distribution==
The number of pages also increased over time, while varying from issue to issue depending on the amount of content available. By the end of the 1970s issues were typically 48 pages, rising to 60 pages by the end of the 1980s. The late 1990s and early 2000s saw typical issues of 76 pages, with the greatest number of pages being 88 in issues 128 (Autumn 1998), 136 (Summer 2001) and 137 (Autumn 2001). After that time the number of pages began to decrease, partly to save postage costs. Since mid-2015 the 'standard' has been 64 pages with occasional issues of 72 pages.
Issue 209 (Spring 2020) was for the first time wrapped packaged in an environmentally-friendly potato starch envelope but due to an issue with some members not receiving their copies, distribution has since reverted to using a compostable paper envelope. <ref>SVR(G) Annual Report, 31 December 2020, Chairman's Statement</ref> Some other material may also be distributed with the magazine such as the Guarantee Company accounts and AGM paperwork or appeals leaflets. Issue 210 (Summer 2020) included ''The Way Ahead'', a [[2020 coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic|COVID-19]] themed supplement.
{{As of|20202021}} the SVR has approximately 12just under 11,500 000 members. 109,000 copies of each edition of SVR News are produced with approximately 98,400 100 being sent to members (joint members receive one copy)<ref>SVR News 212215, Winter 2020Autumn 2021, ''General Information''</ref>.
===Typical contents===
