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In mid-1972 the newly-formed Great Western Locomotive and Carriage Society made '9303' its first target for preservation.<ref>SVR News 25</ref> The following year the Society merged with the Great Western Rolling Stock Fund to become the [[Great Western (SVR) Association]]. By spring 1974 volunteers were working on the locomotive at Barry, with the purchase being finalised in May 1974 with the aid of a loan in order to avoid a price increase proposed by Dai Woodham in June of that year.<ref>SVR News 31, 32, 87</ref>
The locomotive arrived from [[Barry Scrapyard]] on 13 August 1975 in convoy with [[GWR 2857 Heavy Goods Loco|GWR 2857]].<ref>SVR Stock Book Ninth Edition (SVR News 36 states 20 August)</ref> In Autumn of that year a [[:Category:SVR fundraising lotteries| raffle organised by the SVRA Stourbridge Branch]] helped raise funds for the purchase of locomotive,<ref>SVR News 39</ref> It initially went to [[Bewdley]] before moving to [[Highley]] around summer 1977 "in store pending full restoration".<ref>SVR News 44</ref>
The small restoration team at Bewdley was headed by Pete Simpson who was also responsible for the restoration of [[4566]] and [[5164]]. Restoration of the mogul began in earnest once those locomotives were completed in July 1975 and October 1979 respectively.<ref>SVR News 52,87,157</ref> In 1982 another [[:Category:SVR fundraising lotteries|SVRA raffle]] was held to raise funds for work on the boiler and tender which were to be done as a contract job at Bridgnorth,<ref>SVR News 63</ref> and a further [[:Category:SVR fundraising lotteries|raffle organised by the [[Severn Valley Railway Association#SVRA_branches|SVRA Stourbridge Branch]] was held in spring 1988.<ref>SVR News 89, 90</ref> The locomotive was re-wheeled in July 1988<ref>SVR News 90</ref> and the boiler put back in the frames in 1989, with restoration continuing as funds permitted.<ref>SVR News 93</ref> Although owning group the [[Great Western (SVR) Association]] customarily refer to the locomotive by its earlier number 9303, the locomotive first entered SVR service in summer 1992 as no 7325.
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