Preservation
Three of the class survive to this day, two of them survivors from Woodham Brothers scrapyard in Barry, Vale of Glamorgan, South Wales:
- 4555 - 'Warrior' is awaiting overhaul on the Paignton and Dartmouth Steam Railway (In GWR Green)
- 4561 - left Woodham Brothers in September 1975. Currently undergoing overhaul on the West Somerset Railway (In BR Black)
- 4566 - left Woodham Brothers in August 1970. Currently in service on the Severn Valley Railway (In GWR Green)
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