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GWR Large Prairie 5164

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==5164 in preservation==
By summer 1971, with a 57xx Pannier Tank and 46xx 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 by the 5164 Fund as the best of the 10 large prairies at Barry, and purchased . 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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