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Following withdrawal, D5410 was purchased by Sandwell Council who wished to retain an example of a BRCW locomotive. It appeared at the SVR Diesel Gala in October 1987, after which it was moved to the Birmingham Railway Museum at Tyseley (now known as Tyseley Locomotive Works). During the next few years all blue asbestos was removed from the locomotive and it was restored as D5410. By May 1991 it had returned to the SVR.
The Council termed it "the Sandwell Engine", with funds allocated in 2006-8 to "develop an annual events programme at the Severn Valley Railway to make [the] engine accessible to the Sandwell community in partnership with Smethwick Heritage Trust."<ref>[http://tinyurl.com/j8bsxvm Sandwell’s Heritage, July 2005, p. 24 ] (retrieved 26 January 2017)</ref> By May 2011 the Council was seeking help to care for her.<ref>Railway Magazine, May (2011), p. 93.</ref> Sandwell Council's Press Release 18 February 2011 said: "Sandwell Council is appealing for workshop space to help with the restoration of a historic railway engine. The council is working with volunteers to find a way of bringing new life to the Sandwell locomotive, built in Smethwick. It is appealing for a storage space where volunteers can work on the engine which was built around 20 years ago. Built in the 1960s, it is a class 27 diesel locomotive, one of around 30 which saw service in Scotland. It is currently based at Kidderminster under the care of the Severn Valley Railway, but it needs full restoration. Cabinet member for youth, culture and leisure Cllr Ann Shackleton said: "The Sandwell locomotive was built in Smethwick and is an important part of our industrial and railway heritage and we are determined to ensure its future. “We would love to hear from a business in Sandwell that has spare storage space so that we could bring the engine back to the borough so that with some tender loving care it could be restored piece by piece."
==Departure from the SVR==
Following a period in store at the SVR, it moved to UKRail's facility in Leicester in November 2015 for bodywork overhaul, then moved to Cranmore Traincare and Maintenance Services on 23 February 2016.<ref>[http://www.svr.co.uk/MeetTheLoco.aspx?id=90 SVR Meet the Locos]</ref> Images of bodywork repairs have appeared on Preserved Diesels' Facebook page and added to SVRLive. By March 2018 images showed it in the open outside the workshop at Tyseley with bodywork repair complete, and by May it had moved by road transport to Knighton Junction. On 6 August it moved by rail back to Leicester LIP.<ref>Jonthan Dunster, via Facebook, 26 August 2018.</ref>
In December 2019 the Chairman of the SVR Diesel Committee announced it was no longer an SVR Locomotive.<ref>Jonthan Dunster, via Facebook, 20 December 2018.</ref>
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== See also ==
[[Diesel Locomotives]]<br>[[Rolling stock currently under restorationFormer Residents]]<br>
[[Locomotive numbering|Locomotives running under different identities]]