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Back in your post No.78, you ask if I have ever been involved in this sort of thing? The answer to that question, Sir, is a most emphatic YES! I joined the Severn Valley Railway in 1970, worked for a short while with the P.Way gang at Bridgnorth. I was then approached by a local chap who asked me to join the society restoring Standard Pacific No.70000 BRITANNIA. This I did, and spent 1972 - 1985 helping with the actual restoration, also fund raising:manning a sales stand in all sorts of places in all weathers, also helping out on the societies local branch committee, organising slide and film shows, coach trips, and anything else we could think of to help raise funds and keep the locos profile in the public eye. In total more than thirteen years of fairly intensive involvement.
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