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==2857 in preservation==
2857 was purchased from [[Barry Scrapyard | Woodham Bros scrapyard]] on 20th May 1974 by [[The 2857 Society|The 2857 Society]] for a cost of £5,250 plus £525 VAT. The locomotive was moved by rail from Barry to the Severn Valley Railway in convoy with [[GWR Mogul 7325]], arriving on 20th 13th August 1975<ref>SVR News 37 p.2. and p.14.</ref><ref>SVR Stock Book Ninth Edition</ref> (the 2857 Preservation Society web site states 20 August).<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>
===Restoration and first steaming===