Preservation
60010 Dominion of Canada was withdrawn at Darlington shed on 29 May 1965. The locomotive had not been repaired since May 12. On 5 July 1965, the locomotive was marked in Darlington's records as 'for sale to be scrapped'.
After 60010 was condemned and her chimney removed for either 60024 Kingfisher or 60004 William Whitelaw, both in the works at that time, she was placed behind Darlington motive power depot and forgotten about. For many months she was left lying derelict, almost totally hidden in the weeds and rough bushes and without her chimney, at the end of a siding from the MPD, nose into the embankment of the Haughton Road bridge in Darlington. Despite this being a busy main road, very few people were aware of the engine being enveloped by the undergrowth. Some time after Darlington MPD was closed on 26 March 1966, No. 60010 was moved to Crewe works for cosmetic restoration and shipping to Canada.
She was donated to the Canadian Railroad Historical Association (CRHA) by British Rail. Since May 1966 60010 has been preserved by the CRHA at the Canadian Railway Museum at Delson/Saint-Constant, Quebec, near Montreal. The CPR bell was shipped out with 60010, but has not been refitted to-date due to the double chimney. Previously stored in a secure building with other equipment, the engine was in a very poor cosmetic state, with widespread rust and parts missing or removed. A visual restoration was originally planned for 2010, but for unknown reasons, did not go ahead.
In 2011 the National Railway Museum in York announced that it would be bringing back 60010 (along with fellow A4Dwight D Eisenhower ) to the UK for a 2 year period (the loco will return to Canada in early 2014) to celebrate the 75th Anniversary of classmate Mallard's record-breaking run. The event marks the first time that all 6 surviving A4s will have been together since Preservation, and for 60010, marking the opportunity to reunite it with fellow Coronation engine LNER Class A4 4488 Union of South Africa.
Both North American A4s will receive cosmetic restoration while in the UK, with 60010 returning to its original Coronation livery- LNER Garter Blue with her original number 4489, complete with side valances, single chimney, and stainless chrome trim, lettering and numbering. It will also be refitted with a Canadian-style chime whistle, and the commemorative bell that was originally removed when it was fitted with a double chimney and sent with the locomotive to Canada. Incidentally, the original boxes used to send the bell and bell mount to Canada was used to bring it back to the UK.
In September 2012, 60010 was sent from the Canadian Railway Museum down to the docks in Halifax, Nova Scotia where she was reunited with 60008, and both were shipped at the end of September. On Wednesday 3 October 2012, both locomotives returned to the UK at Liverpool Docks where a Press Call had been arranged. On Saturday 6 October 2012, 60010 arrived at Shildon for brief display, after which her cosmetic restoration will be carried out.
It is planned to have 60009 Union of South Africa visit Shildon as well, so that a line up of three Brunswick Green A4s can take place for the first time since the end of Eastern steam in 1966- it was originally planned to be an earlier event and also feature 60007 Sir Nigel Gresley, but the A4s' shipping date was delayed, so 60007 could not be secured for the date due to commitments at the North Yorkshire Moors Railway.
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