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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Famous quotes containing the word preservation:
“The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.”
—Herbert Spencer (1820–1903)
“The reason why men enter into society, is the preservation of their property; and the end why they choose and authorize a legislative, is, that there may be laws made, and rules set, as guards and fences to the properties of all the members of the society: to limit the power, and moderate the dominion, of every part and member of the society.”
—John Locke (1632–1704)
“It is my hope to be able to prove that television is the greatest step forward we have yet made in the preservation of humanity. It will make of this Earth the paradise we have all envisioned, but have never seen.”
—Joseph O’Donnell. Clifford Sanforth. Professor James Houghland, Murder by Television, just before he demonstrates his new television device (1935)