Despite the continuation of the Guarantee Company, the SVRA also remained in existence and assumed a particular responsibility for representing the views of the working members. Representatives of both organisations sat on the Board of Directors of SVR(H).
There was a growing overlap in the roles of the two organisations, and in early 2013 proposals for a merger appeared in a Working Members' Survey.<ref>SVR News 187 p. 17.</ref> Merger talks continued through 2014, with the proposals being agreed at the respective AGMs in 2015, following which . Following this the merger formally took place in October 2015, although an issue with its SVRH shareholding, ring-fencing unspent lottery monies and transferring assets meant winding up of the SVRA was took until 2022 to be concluded<ref>Guarantee Company Annual Reports ending 31 December 2019; 31 December 2020, p. 5; 31 December 2021, p. 3; and 31 December 2022, p. 8</ref>.
==SVRA Chairmen==
*Extant branches are:
**[[SVR Wolverhampton Branch| '''WolverhamptonCheshire''']] (Originally Macclesfield Branch, formed in January 1967December 1980<ref>SVR News 123 “Wolverhampton Branch – a Thirty Year History”65</ref>)**[[SVR Wolverhampton Branch| '''KidderminsterWolverhampton''' ]] (formed by 1970in January 1967<ref>SVR News 16123 “Wolverhampton Branch – a Thirty Year History”</ref>). At the 15 January 2024 General meeting it was decided to wind up the Branch.
**'''Stourbridge''' (formed in late 1971 as "Wordsley and Stourbridge"<ref>SVR News 21,23</ref>)
**'''Macclesfield''' (formed in December 1980<ref>SVR News 65</ref>)
*Other branches were:
**'''Birmingham''' (formed by 1969,<ref>SVR News 12</ref> closed in 1992.<ref>SVR News 102 et seq</ref>)
**'''Chester''' (formed by 1971<ref>SVR News 19</ref>, merger with Merseyside proposed in February 1974.<ref>SVR News 30,31</ref>)
**'''Kidderminster''' (formed by 1970<ref>SVR News 16</ref>)
**'''Merseyside''' (formed November 1973 and based at Birkenhead.<ref>SVR News 29,30</ref> By summer 1975 "the only surviving branch in the North West".<ref>SVR News 36</ref> Closed circa 1976)
**'''North West''' (originally Warrington Branch, formed in January 1971,<ref>SVR News 18</ref>, meetings suspended in 1974 due to poor attendance and closed in January 1975.<ref>SVR News 32,35</ref>)
==See also==
*[[The Severn Valley Railway in preservation#Current Organisation | SVR Current organisation]]*[[The 200 Club]]
==References==
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==Links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20150521211233/http://svr-association.org.uk/index.html SVRA Website on Internet Archive Wayback Machine] (snapshot on 21 May 2015 prior to merger)
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