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The Company is an unlisted company, and its shares are not currently quoted on any trading platform, nor are there any matched bargain facility arrangements. There is currently no secondary market in the shares and shareholders may only sell their shares by way of private bargain if they can themselves find a buyer.<ref>[http://www.svr.co.uk/pdf/SVR%20Share%20Offer%20Document%202016.pdf 2016 Share Offer Document]</ref> It is difficult to obtain reliable information about the secondary value of shares. The 2012 Share Offer document commented that the average price of transactions in the previous year was 45 pence per 100 pence share.<ref>2012 Share Offer prospectus</ref>
Shareholders wcan can also donate their shares to the [[Severn Valley Railway Company Limited]], [[Severn Valley Railway Charitable Trust Ltd]], one of the [[List of preservation groups|SVR preservation groups]] or to other bodies associated with the railway. Donations to [[Charities associated with the SVR]] may attract tax relief.
==Share offers==
*Note 2. The Directors will review the above entitlements periodically and may from time to time adjust them. However, the Directors confirmed at the time of the issue of the document on 1 November 2016 that no changes would take place within the next three years.
*Note 3. Shareholders of 3,000 or above shares will be entitled to free car parking in SVR car parks and receive an annual windscreen parking pass. Where car parks have exit barriers, shareholders may obtain a free exit token on production of a parking-eligible travel pass at Kidderminster and Bridgnorth ticket offices, shops or at [[The Railwayman's Arms]].
In October 2019 a new Shareholder Travel Pass came into use for the 1,800 eligible passholders, a photo-bearing credit card-sized pass to replace during 2020 the previous version and medallion that were open to abuse.<ref>[https://www.svrlive.com/blnov19 SVR Live, Branch Lines November 2019] (Retrieved 9 November 2019)</ref><ref>SVR(H) letter to passholders November 2019</ref> It contains a bar code to monitor usage levels.
==Legal Charges==
