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[[File:S Glendenning 2 280916{{Infobox diesel loco|image = Kidderminster Carriage Shed - D5410 awaiting restoration with 20177.jpgJPG|thumbcaption = D5410 in 2015 (Wikimedia Commons)|300pxconstruc = BRCW|rightwheels = Bo-Bo| power = Diesel Electric|status = Former resident. Stored|locono = D5410 (S Glendenning)]]|othernos = 27123, 27205|designed = British Railways|locotype = '''Class 27'''|built = 1962|years1 = 1987|events1 = Purchased by Sandwell Council|years2 = 2015|events2 = Left the SVR|length = 50ft 9in|weight = 77t}} D5410 is a BR Class 27 [[UIC classification | Bo-Bo]] diesel-electric locomotive. 69 of these were built by the Birmingham Railway Carriage and Wagon Company (BRCW) during 1961 and 1962. They were capable of delivering 1,250 horsepower, they were designed to work light mixed freight traffic at up to 75 90 mph. <ref>Alan Williams and David Percival, British Railways Locomotives & other motive power, (London: Ian Allen, 1975), p.32.</ref>
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== D5410 in service ==
D5410 was built by BRCW as Works No DEL253 of 1962. It was first allocated to Cricklewood East in on 30 August of that year, working Tilbury Boat trains and Cross-London freight services. After re-allocation to London (Midland) in 1965 and Nottingham Division in 1968, D5410 moved to Eastfield Depot in Glasgow in March 1969.
While in Scotland, the locomotive was used on the Edinburgh Waverley to Glasgow Queen Street express service, where unreliable DMUs were replaced by pairs of specially adapted Class 27s fitted with push-pull equipment to top and tail rakes of six Mark 2 carriages fitted with air operated disc brakes. In August 1971, following a transfer to Edinburgh Haymarket, D5410 was fitted with air brakes, becoming classified as Class 27/1. A final return to Eastfield took place the following year.
== D5410 in preservation ==
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 storeat 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 "going well" have appeared on Preserved Diesels' Facebook page and were added to SVRLive . By March 2018 images showed it in September 2016the 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>[http:Jonthan Dunster, via Facebook, 26 August 2018.<//svrliveref> In December 2019 the Chairman of the SVR Diesel Committee announced it was no longer an SVR Locomotive.wixsite<ref>Jonthan Dunster, via Facebook, 20 December 2019.com/svrlive/copy-of-news-300516-1-9 SVRLive]</ref>
<gallery>File: | File:S Glendenning 2 280916.jpg | D5410 under overhaul in 2016 (S Glendenning)</gallery> == See Also also ==[[Diesel Former Residents]]<br>[[Locomotive numbering|Locomotivesrunning under different identities]]
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== See Also Links ==[[Diesel Locomotives]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Rail_Class_27 BR Class 27 on Wikipedia] {{DieselNavbox}}