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On October 8, 2013, an exchange ==Service==6990 was completed in April 1948 at BR’s Swindon works and on being out-shopped was selected to take part in the Locomotive Exchanges of tenders took place 1948. It was used in the trials between Bristol and Plymouth but due to gauging issues in other regions, was only otherwise used on the DCRT former Great Central line from Marylebone to Manchester. Thereafter it was mostly based at London’s Old Oak Common shed working services out of Paddington, apart from a year stationed at Oxford and the SVRfinal two years operating from Bristol. This exchange will allow Hagley Hall to run with the correct Collet style tender formerly used by Witherslack Hall6990 was withdrawn from BR service on 17 December 1965, which will now use the more appropriate Hawksworth tender formerly used by Hagley Hall insteadarriving at [[Barry Scrapyard]] in February 1966<ref name=GCR/>.
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[[File: 6990_20160325.jpg |thumb|300px|right| 6990 Witherslack Hall at Bridgnorth, March 2016]]
6990 Witherslack Hall is owned by The David Clarke Railway Trust (DCRT) and is based at the Great Central Railway.<refname=GCR>[http://www.gcrailway.co.uk/the-railway/locomotives/6990-witherslack-hall/ GCR Website] Retrieved 28 March 20163 December 2018</ref>
The original GWR 4900 Hall Class, of which the SVR’s [[GWR 4930 Hagley Hall|4930 Hagley Hall]] is an example, was first built in the 1920s and the design remained largely unchanged until C.B. Collett retired in 1941. Frederick Hawksworth, his successor as CME, produced the 6959 Modified Hall class of which 71 were built between 1944 and 1950. Although visually similar to the earlier Halls, the modified version incorporated many changes including a re-design of the frames incorporating plate frames, cylinders cast separately from the smokebox saddle and bolted to the frames on each side, and increased superheating. Hawksworth also produced a re-designed tender with flat high sides, and a number of the Modified Halls were equipped with these.
==Preservation==6990 arrived at the GCR in November 1975 having been purchased by the Witherslack HallLocomotive Society and after restoration, complete with the Hawksworth tender, visited the SVR entered service in March 2016August 1986. The locomotive It was unfortunately unable to take part withdrawn for boiler repairs in the Spring GalaJanuary 1992, having suffered re-entering service in January 1996. After a ‘hot box’ during running trials after delivery. However the locomotive was repaired in time to work further period out of service trains over the following Easter weekendwith boiler issues between 1999 and 2000, and is pictured awaiting ‘right away’ at Bridgnorth on Good Friday afternoon. It also worked service trains on ongoing boiler problems led to a further two weekendswithdrawal for overhaul in 2001.
In January 2006 ownership of 6990 was transferred to The DCRT. A further period of service began in March of that year. On 8 October 2013 an exchange of tenders took place between the DCRT and the SVR, allowing [[4930|Hagley Hall]] to run with the correct Collet style tender formerly used by Witherslack Hall, which now instead uses the more appropriate Hawksworth tender formerly paired with Hagley Hall. Following another overhaul, the locomotive returned to traffic in 2015<ref name=GCR/>.
==Appearances at the SVR==
Witherslack Hall, now complete with the Hawksworth tender, visited the SVR in March 2016. The locomotive was unfortunately unable to take part in the Spring Gala, having suffered a hot box during running trials after delivery. However the locomotive was repaired in time to work service trains over the following Easter weekend, and is pictured awaiting ‘right away’ at Bridgnorth on Good Friday afternoon. It also worked service trains on a further two weekends.
The locomotive revisited on hire for the 2018-19 winter season, arriving on 28 November 2018 with a return to the GCR scheduled after 9 January 2019<ref>SVR Web site</ref>.
[[Goodnight Mister Tom]], a 1998 made-for-TV Movie, was filmed partly at the SVR and partly at the Great Central Railway. In scenes filmed at Loughborough 6960 carried the number plates of SVR-resident [[GWR Mogul 7325]].
==See also==
[[Steam Locomotives visiting the SVR for galas]]<br>
[[Steam Locomotives hired by the SVR]]<br>
[[Goodnight Mister Tom]]
==References==
==Links==
GWR 6959 Class on [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GWR_6959_Class Wikipedia]
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