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It started life working from Bedford, moved to Kentish Town in January 1953, Chester in late summer 1956, and Corkerhill in early spring 1960, from where it was withdrawn in August 1966. It has clearly not been repainted, though some of the lining has been touched up. It has fluted coupling rods and no speedometer. Volume 35 March 2026 British Railways Illustrated Derby overhauled three cylinder 2-6-4Ts from the former LT&SR sheds.

42507, built at Derby in June 1934, is fresh off works in the shed yard on 1st April 1958. By this time, all of this class were, at least on paper, allocated to Shoeburyness. The domeless taper boiler and cut outs in the rear bunker are improvements on the Fowler engines. Limousine-cab Fowler 2-6-4T 42401 in the shed yard on 17th April 1959. It has one of the later build boilers fitted to the class, with three mudholes on the shoulder of the firebox.

Built at Derby in September 1933, it was a Longsight engine at Nationalisation, moved to Barrow in the summer of 1948, and stayed there until February 1963, when it moved to Stockport, from which shed it was withdrawn five months later. British Railways Illustrated Volume 35 March 2026 Fowler 2-6-4T 42399, one of the later engines fitted with a limousine cab, is on shed near the turntable on 1st April 1958 and appears to be prepared for either a test run or a return to its home shed of Longsight.

It would be reasonable to expect these members of the class to be used in the more northerly areas, and in 1951 this was clearly the case. At that time there were ten in Scotland (eight at Greenock and two at Corkerhill), Longsight being the most southerly depot running them. In 1953 the Scottish ten were exchanged for Fairburn engines and by 1958 even Willesden had one.

42399 was still a Longsight engine when withdrawn in 1960.

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