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===First boiler ticket===
686 was first steamed a week before the 1969 August Gala,<ref>[[Bibliography#Books | Shaw (1998)]] p. 39.</ref> although SVR News does not record any mileage until 1971. Not sufficiently powerful to haul service trains, 686 acted as 'station pilot' and shunter, hauled a number of works trains and gave occasional footplate rides at Bridgnorth. The locomotive also appeared in several film and TV productions, including a BBC Horizon documentary on railway accidents in 1972 and as a Russian locomotive in [[The Incredible Dr. Robert Baldick]] in the same year.
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