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|construc = GWR Swindon Works
|wheels = 4-6-0
|rating = GWR: D, BR: 5MT|axleload = GWR: Red
|status = Under overhaul
|locono = 4930
In 1948, 4930 was shedded at Tyseley, but the remainder of her post-War service was mainly spent in the south west, with allocations to Bristol St Phillips Marsh, Weymouth (August 1950), Bristol Bath Road, Westbury, Taunton (March 1959) and Exeter. Final allocations were to London’s Old Oak Common and Swindon.
In Adrian Vaughan’s biography ‘Signalman’s Twilight’, he recounts that on 29 June 1963 4930 was the only spare locomotive available to replace a Western class diesel which failed near Swindon when working a Milford Haven to Paddington express. Supposedly restricted to working low class goods services due to her run-down condition, Hagley Hall was nevertheless timed at 82mph passing Didcot and covered the 53 miles from Didcot to Paddington in 45 minutes.<ref>Signalman’s Twilight, Adrian Vaughan, Chapter 12</ref> Following this swansong, 4930 was withdrawn from service by BR in December 1963 after a working life of 1,295,236 miles. <ref>[http://www.brdatabase.info/locoqry.php?action=locodata&type=S&id=4930&loco=4930 BR database. Stephenson Loco Society records have November 1963] (Retrieved 18 November 2019)</ref> The locomotive was acquired by [[Barry Scrapyard | Woodham Brothers scrap yard]] at Barry in May 1964. [[Viscount Cobham]] obtained one of the original 'Hagley Hall' nameplates from Lord Beeching, which he lent to the [[Richard Dunn]] to have copies cast in preparation for the locomotive's recovery from Barry and subsequent restoration.<ref>SVR News 43, "Viscount Cobham", Obituary by R.H. Dunn</ref>
==4930 Hagley Hall in Preservation==
|22 Mar 1986||Tiddly Dyke Tour(s) || Andover - Ludgershall (5 x return) || || [http://www.sixbellsjunction.co.uk/80s/860322ty.htm SBJ] ||80-4
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|23 Mar 1986||Sunday Steam Specials || Andover - Ludgershall (6 x return) || 4930 last main line appearance . £600 of tickets at £4.60 were also sold for the Sunday night ECS working to Bristol (alight at Salisbury).<ref>Steam Railway Magazine No 74</ref> || ||80-4
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===Current status===
4930 has not steamed since 1986, the longest period any current locomotive has spent ‘out of ticket’ after working at the SVR. The intervening years were initially spent in store at Bridgnorth. Following a cosmetic restoration in 1999, 4936 4930 was placed on loan as a static exhibit at the Designer Shopping Complex (sited on the former GWR Swindon Works).
On 7/8 June 2007, 4930 returned from Swindon with the intention of featuring in the new [[The Engine House | Engine House]] at [[Highley]]. En route 4936 4930 spent a day at the real Hagley Hall courtesy of Lord and Lady Cobham, probably the only time a Hall class locomotive has visited the hall after which it was named.<ref>[http://www.4930hagleyhall.org.uk/pages/4930_returns_home.html Friends of 4930 Hagley Hall - The Journey Home]</ref> The move into the Engine House was then delayed until 2008 by the [[2007 Storm Damage | storm damage in 2007]].
4930’s long-awaited overhaul began with a move from the Engine House to [[Bridgnorth Loco Works]] on 6 October 2013. In March 2017 the [[Friends of 4930 Hagley Hall | Friends of Hagley Hall]], in partnership with Severn Valley Engineering Services, formulated a detailed programme for completion of the overhaul. This "''2020 Vision''" envisages a return to steam in 2020.<ref>[http://www.4930hagleyhall.org.uk/news/news.html Friends of Hagley Hall News update 7 March 2017 '4930 Our 2020 VISION']</ref>
*As part of the overhaul, 4930 will run with the correct Collett style tender rather than her previous Hawksworth style one, following an exchange with the custodians of [[6990 Witherslack Hall]] on 8 October 2013. In 2017 the new tender tank was delivered for work on restoring the tender to continue. By March 2019 the new tender tank was fitted to the refurbished and rewheeled tender chassis.*By August 2015 the boiler had been lifted from the frames. Major work on the boiler at Bridgnorth Works was planned to start in June 2017, however on On 10 April 2018 it departed from Bridgnorth Works by road for the workshops of Northern Steam Engineering Ltd. at Stockton, where overhaul commenced. *By September 2016 the The cylinder block had been was removed and examined. This revealed that the cylinders had been previously patched, and were therefore considered beyond repair. New cylinder blocks were produced: 3D Computer Aided Design work for replacement cylinders lead on 11 June 2018 to newly cast cylinder blocks being delivered to Bridgnorth from by Stafford Road Design Ltd., casting by Shakespeare Foundry in Preston, Lancashireand machining by Harco Engineering. Machined cylinders returned to Bridgnorth on 14 June 2019.<ref>Railway Magazine, July 2019, p.72</ref>
*The driving wheels were removed from the frames on 14 July 2018, so they could be sent to the South Devon Railway for fitting new tyres.
Updates on the overhaul can be found on the news section of the [http://www.4930hagleyhall.org.uk/news/news.html Friends of Hagley Hall web site].
4930 is owned by SVR(H), but has its own support group, the [[Friends of 4930 Hagley Hall | Friends of Hagley Hall]]. By September 2016 the Friends had raised over £110,000 towards the overhaul.<ref>[http://www.4930hagleyhall.org.uk/news/news.html Friends of Hagley Hall web site]</ref> In addition, thanks to a [[:Category:Lottery funding#National_Lottery_Heritage_Fund|Heritage Lottery Fund ]] grant in February 2014 of £95,000 to the [[Severn Valley Railway Charitable Trust Ltd]], apprentices from the Heritage Skills Training Academy are playing an active part in this work.<ref>[http://svrtrust.org.uk/our-projects/hagley-hall.html Severn Valley Railway Charitable Trust website] (Retrieved 15 February 2017)</ref>
4930’s sister locomotive [[GWR 4936 Kinlet Hall|4936 Kinlet Hall]] has visited the SVR on several occasions.
