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==5164 in preservation==
By summer 1971, with a 57xx 5700 Pannier Tank and 46xx 4500 'Small Prairie ' already secured for the SVR, purchase of a 'Large Prairie ' was seen as the next logical step. A fund was established, organised by Mr. R.E. Sim, and No . 5164 was chosen as the best of the 10 large prairies 'Large Prairies' at Barry. It was reserved for purchase 'with the usual help from Mr Woodham' while an appeal for fund raising took place.<ref>SVR News 20</ref>.
Purchase was successfully completed at a cost of £2,250.<ref name="5164org" /> The locomotive was officially the 30th to leave Barry,<ref>The Barry Story, Beckett & Hardingham, 2010</ref>, arriving on the SVR on 6 January 1973 in the company of [[GWR 4930 Hagley Hall]] and [[GWR 7819 Hinton Manor]].
===First boiler ticket===
Restoration was completed in October 1979 when the locomotive entered service for the first time. Mileage recorded during the first boiler ticket was as follows:<ref name ="SVR152" >SVR News 152 p.24-25</ref>
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