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The quoted cost of the project escalated. SVR News Winter 2020 quoted a figure of £80,000. The Charitable Trust's planned 2020 appeal had aimed to raise £250,000. The Home and Dry appeal was for a revised project cost of £425,000, later increased to £475,000 because of the 'spiralling cost of steel and additional improvements that are needed inside the works'.<ref>[https://www.svrlive.com/blaug21 Branch Lines August 2021]</ref> When the project was phased, the first phase costs amounted to £380,000. {{As of|By November 2021|11}} phases 1 and 2 of the project were funded and in project delivery, consisting of the roof, electricals, cladding, ground works and civils works. A suitable second-hand 6.3-ton crane with associated steelwork had also been identified. £430,000 had been raised towards the estimated £475k total cost.<ref>[https://www.svrlive.com/blnov21 Branch Lines November 2021]</ref>On 25 January 2022 the Charitable Trust announced that the whole £475,000 has been raised<ref>[https://www.svr.co.uk/2022/01/25/the-severn-valley-railway-is-home-dry/ SVR Website] (retrieved 18 February 2022</ref>.