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[[File:Steam Locomotive 43106 3 (4507428635).jpg|thumb|200px|right|43106 at Kidderminster]]
43106 is the only surviving example of an LMS Ivatt Class 4 [[Whyte notation |2-6-0 Mogul]], and is affectionately referred to on the SVR as “The Flying Pig” (often shortened to "The Pig"). It is owned by the [[Ivatt Class 4 Group]].
==43106 in service==
Although an LMS design, 43106 was built after nationalisation by BR at the former LNER Darlington Works. The locomotive entered service at South Lynn, Norfolk in April 1951 where it remained for 5 years. Whilst operating in East Anglia it carried Whitaker token exchange apparatus fitted into a "pocket" towards the front of the tender. Most of the tooling to reproduce the apparatus this locomotive carried whilst there has been made.
43106 was one of the SVR’s early locomotives, arriving ‘light engine’ direct from Lostock Hall in August 1968. It worked services on the official opening day in May 1970, and hauled several [[The Severn Valley Railway on the main line | main line railtours]] during the 1980s.
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