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→Current status: To attend the NEC in November 2023
After negotiations between the Group, the EMF and the SVR, the transfer of ownership to the EMF for a nominal sum was completed in November 2021.<ref>EMF Newsletter no 78, November 2021</ref>
In January 2022 the EMF announced that their members had agreed to a change of the Fund's Articles, allowing fund raising for an overhaul to begin.<ref>[https://www.erlestokemanorfund.co.uk/announcement-emf-shareholders-approve-proposal-to-restore-5164-to-steam/ EMF Announcement January 2022]</ref> In July 2022 the EMF announced the launch of an appeal to raise funds to return 5164 to service<ref>[https://www.erlestokemanorfund.co.uk/the-big-large-prairie-appeal-returning-5164-to-service/ EMF: ''The Big "Large Prairie" Appeal – Returning 5164 to service''] (retrieved 1 August 2022)</ref>.
In July 2022 April 2023 the EMF announced advised that they had accepted an invitation for 5164 to appear at the launch Warley Model Railway Exhibition at the Birmingham NEC on 25-26 November 2023, with the movement being used as an effective way of an appeal returning the locomotive closer to raise funds home ahead of its overhaul actively commencing once 7802 has returned to return 5164 to servicesteam.<ref>[https://www.erlestokemanorfund.co.uk/the-big-large-prairie-appeal-returning-5164-to-service/ EMF: ''The Big "Large Prairie" Appeal – Returning 5164 to service''] (retrieved 1 August 2022)Newsletter no 81, April 2023</ref>.
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