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[[File: 813_20161105.jpg |thumb|300px|right| GWR 813 at Highley]]'''The GWR 813 Preservation Fund''' was founded in 1966.<ref>[http://www.gwr813.org/index.html GWR 813 Preservation Fund]</ref> It is an unincorporated membership organisation. There is currently no annual subscription and membership is granted to those making a minimum donation amount. The Fund owns the [[GWR 813 Saddle Tank | 0-6-0ST locomotive GWR 813 Saddle Tank locomotive]] and many (originally Port Talbot Railway No 26), together with an extensive collection of the GWR [[Goods Wagons|goods wagons]] on the SVR, as well as a number of other items on the SVR and on other preserved lines, with their collection numbering almost 100. They run a [[GWR 813 Sales Stand | sales stand]] at [[Kidderminster | Kidderminster]] Stationrolling stock.
== See Also History==When [[GWR 813 Saddle Tank | GWR 813 Saddle Tank locomotive]] was offered for sale by the National Coal Board, it was last surviving item of any form of Port Talbot Railway rolling stock. Although the locomotive was in the usual appalling 'Coal Board Condition', Paddy Goss set up the Fund to preserve it. The purchase price was paid in August 1967 with delivery from Backworth Colliery, Northumberland to Bridgnorth following on 25 November 1967.<ref name=SVR103>SVR News 103, "''813, An Unfortunate Case of How Not to Restore a Loco''", Simon Marshall</ref>
While restoration was still in progress, the Fund began to preserve other items of rolling stock. This began in 1969 when attempts were being made to save the Collett coaches from the Swindon Test Train. The Fund acquired [[GWR 1146 Full Third| Full Third 1146]], one of five which were secured for the SVR and arrived on 19 December 1969.<ref name=SVR103/>
The purchase of coach 1146 was followed by many GWR [[Goods Wagons|goods wagons]], [[Other rolling stock#Cranes and jib runners|cranes]] and other coaches including [[GWR 98 Full Brake|Full Brake 98]] and [[Carriages formerly resident on the SVR|former resident Corridor Third 4872]]. By summer 1992 these totalled 72 vehicles,<ref name=SVR103/> more than half of which were on the SVR with the rest at a number of other preserved railways. The collection has increased further since, now numbering around 100 items of rolling stock.<ref>Rolling stock list on GWR 813 Preservation Fund website</ref> See [[:Category:Rolling stock owned by The GWR 813 Preservation Fund | Rolling stock owned by The GWR 813 Preservation Fund]] for a full list of the Fund's rolling stock based at the SVR.
On 23 November 2019 the Rouse family donated to the Fund a large portion of [[Image Collections#David_Rouse_Collection|David Rouse's photographic archive]]. It will take some time for the Fund to go through the collection.<ref>The GWR 813 Preservation Fund Facebook page 23 November 2019</ref>
==Other information==
The Fund runs a [[GWR 813 Sales Stand | sales stand]] at [[Kidderminster | Kidderminster]] Station.
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File: 813shop.jpg | The GWR 813 Preservation Fund sales stand
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{{As of|2021|2}} [[The GWR 813 Preservation Fund]] has taken the first step to becoming a Charitable Incorporated Organisation<ref>Baxter, Nick J.P., GWR 813 Preservation Fund Facebook page, 27 February 2021 (Retrieved 27 February 2021)</ref>.
== See also ==
[[List of preservation groups]]
==References==
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== Links ==
[http://www.gwr813.org/ The GWR 813 Preservation Fund website]
