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GWR 2857 Heavy Goods Loco

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==2857 in service==
2857 was built in 1918 at the GWR’s Swindon Works and delivered new to Salisbury GWR depot. During a working life of 45 years it was based in many depots around the GWR (and later British Railways Western Region), including a brief spell at nearby Stourbridge shed. The locomotive was withdrawn from Neath depot in April 1963 having recorded a total of 1,276,713 miles in service. It <ref>[http://www.2857.org.uk/2857_1-early_history.html 2857 Society web site 1]</ref>  2857 is fitted to a paired with GWR 3500 gallon tenderno 2355.
==2857 in preservation==
2857 was purchased from [[Barry Scrapyard | Woodham Bros scrapyard]] in on 20th May 1974 by [[The 2857 Society|The 2857 Society]]for a cost of £5, and 250 plus £525 VAT. The locomotive was moved by rail from Barry to the Severn Valley Railway in convoy with Collett [[GWR Mogul 7325]], arriving on 20th August 1975.<ref>[http://www.2857.org.uk/2857_2-preservation.html 2857 Society web site 2]</ref> They were respectively the 69th and 70th locomotives to leave Barry.<ref>The Barry Story, Beckett & Hardingham (2010)</ref>
The ===Restoration and first steaming===Restoration began at Bewdley in January 1976 and was carried out in the open air. A major setback was the discovery of a cracked cylinder casting. Although attempts at welding this failed, the locomotive was first steamed in preservation on 9th September 1979, minus cladding. A replacement cylinder block was acquired, and having been found during the demolition of the Briton Ferry Steelworks in South Wales. The locomotive was steamed intermittently through 1980, but without entering regularly in service. It finally entered service in August 1985Mileage recorded during the period was as follows:{| class="wikitable"! <b>Year</b> !! style="text-align:right;" | <b>Mileage</b> |-| 1979 || style="text-align:right;" | 20|-| 1980 || style="text-align:right;" | 195|-| <b>Total</b> || style="text-align:right;" | 215|}===Continued restoration and first full boiler ticket===At the end of 1980 the SVR announced that preserved boilers on the railway needed to be brought up to 1980’s BR standards. The owning group therefore resumed the restoration, with the boiler being overhauled by the SVR as a contract job and worked until withdrawn for overhaul in December 1994 (1992 was spent on loan the opportunity being taken to fit the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Steam Railway)replacement cylinder block among many other tasks.
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As 2857 was steamed again on 18th August 1985 and after a week of running in was able to make her only appearance on the main line hauling a demonstration freight train as part of the GW 150 celebrations of that year (as a heavy freight locomotive, 2857 was not considered suitable for main line passenger railtours, but made one appearance on the main line in 1985rail tours)
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2857 worked for the next 10 years until withdrawn for overhaul in December 1994, 1992 being spent on loan to the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Steam Railway.<ref>[http://www.2857.org.uk/2857_2-preservation.html 2857 Society web site 3]</ref> Mileage recorded during the period was as follows: {| class="wikitable"! <b>Year</b> !! style="text-align:right;" | <b>Mileage</b> |-| 1985 || style="text-align:right;" | 449|-| 1986 || style="text-align:right;" | 2,563|-| 1987 || style="text-align:right;" | 2,913|-| 1988 || style="text-align:right;" | 5,892|-| 1989 || style="text-align:right;" | 5,519|-| 1990 || style="text-align:right;" | 4,788|-| 1991 || style="text-align:right;" | 4,683|-| 1992 || style="text-align:right;" | 3,428|-| 1993 || style="text-align:right;" | 5,308|-| 1994 || style="text-align:right;" | 5,648|-| <b>Total</b> || style="text-align:right;" | 41,191|-| <b>Cumulative</b> || style="text-align:right;" | 41,406|-|} ===Overhaul and second boiler ticket===After expiry of the boiler ticket in February 1995, the owing group began a heavy general overhaul.<ref>[http://www.2857.org.uk/2857_4-service.html 2857 Society web site 4]</ref> Filming took place in October 2000 for an episode of the 2001 TV series “[[List of film and TV productions filmed on the Severn Valley Railway#TV Documentary | Off the Rails]]” featuring Vince Henderson. The restoration overhaul of 2857 was one of the items featured, although the commentary referred to the locomotive as a pannier tank! 2857 re-entered service after overhaul in July 2011, although initially the return to service was anything but trouble free. In December of that year water was discovered in both pistons, resulting in a period out of service for repairs. By April 2012 the decision had been taken to take 2857 out of service for a second time, this time for a boiler lift to cure some leaking stays. A third period out of service was needed in August 2012 following a major valve failure. Finally in December 2012 a crack was found in one of the main steam pipes between the regulator and the superheater header. Sourcing a replacement steam pipe was not easy, but 2857 finally resumed service in early March 2013.<ref>[http://www.2857.org.uk/2857_news.html 2857 Society web site 5]</ref>
After overhaulSince these troubles, 2857 rehas become a reliable performer, recording the highest annual mileage of any steam locomotive on the SVR in each of the years 2013 to 2015. Mileage since 2010 is recorded on the [[Severn Valley Railway Timeline 2010-2019#Locomotives used | 2010-entered service in July 20112019 Timeline page]].
In 2014, 2857 recorded the highest annual mileage of any steam locomotive on the SVR that year, being the only steam loco to travel over 10,000 miles on the railway.<ref> Severn Valley Railway News 189 (Spring 2015), p21</ref>
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