Passenger Tank Fund

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The Passenger Tank Fund owns BR Standard 4MT No 80079.

An appeal by the Passenger Tank Fund to acquire the locomotive was published in SVR News in Autumn 1970.[1] A share issue to raise the £3,000 purchase price was successfully completed by Spring 1971.[2]

Railway Herald magazine reported on 7 November 2011 that the Fund is one of three similar funds operating on the SVR. An initial group of 18 members formed The Ivatt Class 4 Group to purchase LMS Ivatt Class 4 43106, a larger group formed The Passenger Tank Fund, before a still larger group formed The 75069 Fund to purchase that locomotive.

As with several groups on the SVR the Fund has a low profile with no website or social media presence.

A special meeting of The Passenger Tank Fund had been arranged for 30 October 2011 to discuss and vote on a proposed sale of the locomotive to Mr Jeremy Hosking.[3] No such sale took place.

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References

  1. SVR News 18
  2. SVR News 19
  3. Railway Herald Magazine Issue 290, 7 November (2011), p. 16.