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The '''Worcester Locomotive Society owns [[Kitson & Co 5474 Limited'Carnarvon']] and [[GWR Pannier 5786]]' is a Private company (Company number 01188105) limited by guarantee without share capital, resident incorporated on 22 October 1974. It incorporates the SVR between 1969 Worcester Locomotive Society, founded 1960. It offers membership, runs frequent members' meetings in Hereford and Worcester and 1970regular organised trips to sites of railway interest.
The Society owns and operates [[Kitson & Co 5474 'Carnarvon']] and [[GWR Pannier 5786]], both of which were acquired in 1969 and initially resident on the SVR, as well as several items of historic railway rolling stock.
In Summer 1970 SVR News announced that the SVR and the W.L.S. had failed to agree the terms on which the two locomotives would remain on the SVR. The dispute centred around the requirement that only paid up members of the Severn Valley Railway Company could work on or operate locomotives on the railway as required by the SVR's insurers and the Inspecting Officer of Railways.<ref>SVR News 17</ref> The Society initially moved their locomotives to the Bulmers Railway Centre at Hereford and, when the Centre closed, they later found a new home at the South Devon Railway.
A publicity flyer for [[Sir Gerald Nabarro|Sir Gerald Nabarro's]] book ''[[Bibliography|Severn Valley Steam, 1971]]'' showed Nabarro in circa 1971 to have been President of the WLS.
==See also==
[[Former Residents]]<br>
[[List of preservation groups#Preservation_groups_formerly_associated_with_the_SVR|Preservation groups formerly associated with the SVR]]
==SourcesReferences==South Devon Railway<references />
==Links==
[http://www.shelbrooke.co.uk/wls/index.htm Society website]<br>[http://www.southdevonrailway.co.uk/locomotives/ SDR web site]<br>[http://www.michaelclemensrailways.co.uk/article/worcester-locomotive-society-shed-tours/670 Michael Clemens' Railways, Worcester Locomotive Society Shed Tours - 1967]
