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I recently picked up one of these for a good price, but I would like to know whether any survived into BR days in non-revenue service. It would make an interesting vehicle in a 1950s PW rake.

 

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Dave.

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There's one in the Transport Museum in Hull - obviously survived intact so may be worth finding out a bit more about it in case it remained in service for longer than others?

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The vast majority were gone by 1928/29 but a few V1/3s lasted into the mid 30's. One was sold to Tyne Improvement Commission and one to the Derwent Valley Light Railway and probably a few (as Mark has pointed out) to the NCB and I believe LMR? not sure about that one though.

 

I was told a few years ago by Mike Grocock that at least one managed to survive in the yards around Hartlepool until about 1947/48, it is not known weather it was in service or not.

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