'''Spring 1991''':
:'Black 5' no 45000 returned to the NRM, together with coach no 9361, the “Clapham Buffet”. The latter had seen regular use, and correspondence in SVR news suggested its departure was regretted more than that of the Black 5! :SVR News also noted that 34027 Taw Valley, out on the main line at the time, was ‘unlikely to return’.
:The Share issue launched in May 1988 reached the target of £500k.