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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."

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