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:::Interesting find - the weather certainly looks right for Winter 62/63! The BR Database has 80072 allocated to Swansea East Dock at the time – I wonder how it finished up working services on the SVR from there? Maybe locos ended up in the wrong place because of the snow and BR just used what was available. --[[User:Robin|Robin]] ([[User talk:Robin|talk]]) 13:27, 29 March 2017 (UTC)
::::...Possible answer, the [http://www.80072.co.uk/ 80072 loco website] suggests an earlier spell at Shrewsbury not mentioned in the BR Database. The exceptional weather could certainly be a reason to take liberties with the route classification. --[[User:Robin|Robin]] ([[User talk:Robin|talk]]) 13:38, 29 March 2017 (UTC)
::::...Additionally, from the article, "''I refer in the article to it moving on to Shrewsbury - this was because I have documentary evidence of it there at this time. However, I have established that it wasn't shedded there then but would be a likely visitor because it was working the Central Wales line which ended up at Shrewsbury...''" Fits the hypothesis that BR used it because it was there at the time. --[[User:Robin|Robin]] ([[User talk:Robin|talk]]) 13:46, 29 March 2017 (UTC)