Preservation
Geoff Drury had purchased LNER Class A4 4464 Bittern from British Rail in 1966. After her failure in 1968 he tried to buy an A1, but after the last one was cut up he was offered and purchased 60532 in 1968. The locomotive is still owned by the Drury family.
After preservation 60532 was the subject of a campaign for its restoration on the BBC Television series Blue Peter, and the locomotive has subsequently featured several times in the programme. Restoration was undertaken at York, Leeds and Doncaster Works where it was repainted in LNER apple green livery as No 532. 60,000 people witnessed its renaming by the BBC Blue Peter programme presenters at a Doncaster Works Open Day in 1971.
Moved to the Dinting Railway Centre it did little running, and in late 1987 the NELPG took charge of 60532 and A4 Bittern on long-term loan from the Drury family. Restored at the Imperial Chemical Industries works at Wilton, Redcar and Cleveland, 60532 was renamed by the BBC Blue Peter programme for a second time in December 1991.
It was then moved to the North Yorkshire Moors Railway for running in. The locomotive obtained its main line certificate in 1992 and subsequently worked many rail tours over the Settle and Carlisle Railway and as far north as its old depot of Aberdeen.
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