Preservation
Woodham Brothers sold the locomotive to Procor (UK) Ltd in Wakefield, and she left as the 125th departure from Barry in May 1981. She is now based at the National Railway Museum in Shildon.
The locomotive operates with a set of matched coaching stock, also owned by West Coast Railways. In September 2003 vandals covered two of the carriages with graffiti which had to be removed at a cost of £3,000.
Since 2004 private tour operator Beyond Boundaries Travel has commissioned the train each summer for use on its Harry Potter Fan Trips tours of the United Kingdom. On 11 March 2007 vandals again targeted the coaches, causing £75,000 worth of damage at West Coast Railway Company's depot in Carnforth. Ten youths, aged between twelve and fourteen years, were arrested in connection with the incident — in which 337 windows on several coaches were smashed.
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