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Class 4 tanks’ route availability was rated as ‘Blue’, with the Severn Valley branch classified as ‘dotted blue’ from [[Bewdley]] to [[Buildwas]].<ref>[ http://www.michaelclemensrailways.co.uk/?atk=634 ‘Locomotive Route Availability’, Michael Clemens’ Railways] (Retrieved 30 March 2017)</ref> This should have restricted their speed to 25mph, and so limited their use.
Several Class 4 tanks were allocated to [[Kidderminster Shed]] until withdrawal in 1965.<ref>[http://www.brdatabase.info/locoqry.php?action=class&type=S&id=726401&page=fleet 82000 page, BRDatabase] (Retrieved 30 March 2017)</ref> In addition, a few were allocated to [[Shrewsbury]] from mid-1962 onwards, having been displaced from the London, Tilbury and Southend line by electrification. They remained until the end of passenger working, especially north of [[Bridgnorth]].<ref> [[Bibliography#Books|D.J. Smith, The Severn Valley Railway (1968)]]</ref> There is little photographic evidence of their use on the Severn Valley, with [[80072]] photographed on the line on three occasions during the winter of 1962-63 and 80078 at Bridgnorth in 1963 working from Shrewsbury.<ref> SVR News No. 15</ref> It appears they featured much less regularly than the BR Standard 3MT 82000 tanks and LMR Ivatt 2MT 41000 tanks also in use from Shrewsbury at that time.
==80079 in service==
