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==Preservation==
City of Truro arrived on loan from the [[NRM]] in July 1984 for overhaul to main line working condition as part of the forthcoming GWR 150 celebrations. Prior to restoration, SVR Chief Engineer [[Alun Rees]] suggested to Steam Railway Magazine Editor David Wilcock that the SVR could repaint the driver's side of the locomotive in BR lined black as a [[Tales from the Severn Valley#April_Fool.21|‘spoof’]]. This was done and photographed before strip down commenced. On 1 April 1985 the magazine published an article showing City of Truro in its ‘new’ unauthentic BR lined black livery as 3717 complete with smokebox number plate. The ‘April fool’ did not go down well in some quarters; the SVR received many vitriolic letters threatening returned membership cards, cashed-in shares and a boycott on visits, whilst the magazine was similarly criticised.
The overhaul was duly completed, and City of Truro worked a number of main line tours as well as services on the SVR before returning to the [[NRM]] at York in July 1986.
