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[[File: {{Infobox GWR steam loco|image = 4930_20131006.jpg |caption = 4930 Hagley Hall prior to the 2013 tender exchange|construc = GWR Swindon Works|wheels = 4-6-0|rating = GWR: D, BR: 5MT|axleload = GWR: Red|status = Under overhaul|locono = 4930|designed = Charles Collett|locotype = '''GWR 4900'''|thumbbuilt = 1929|200pxyears1 = 1972|rightevents1 = Purchased by SVR(H)| years2 = 1973|events2 = Arrived on SVR|years3 = 1979|events3 = First steamed in preservation|years4 = 1986|events4 = Withdrawn for overhaul|length = 63ft 0¼"|weight = 75t 0cwt|power = 27,275 lb|pressure = 225 lb/sq in}}4930 Hagley Hall]]is a GWR Collett 4900 Hall Class locomotive. The Hall was a mixed traffic locomotive, serving a similar role on the GWR to that carried out by the Stanier ‘Black 5’ on the LMS. Stanier worked for the GWR before moving to the LMS, and the Black 5 drew on many of the Hall’s design features. Like the Black 5, the Hall was rated 5MT by BR post-nationalisation, although its wide cylinders meant it was mainly restricted to ex-GWR routes. 

4930 was built in May 1929 at the GWR’s Swindon Works and entered service at the [[Wolverhampton#Wolverhampton Railway Works | Wolverhampton Stafford Road Depot]]. As well as Wolverhampton’s Stafford Road and Oxley depots, other pre-War shed allocations included Chester, Tyseley and Leamington as well as brief periods in the south west. 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 is 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 Following this swansong, 4930 was withdrawn from service by BR in December 1963 after a GWR Collett 4900 working life of 1,295,236 miles.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 Class ' 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. The Dunn</ref> ==4930 Hagley Hall class in Preservation=====Arrival at the SVR===4930 was bought by SVR(H) in June 1972 and was a mixed traffic locomotivemoved from Barry to Bewdley by rail, serving a similar role arriving on 6th January 1973. A six year restoration began, initially at Bewdley and completed at Bridgnorth. A portion of the GWR to that carried out restoration was led by the Stanier ‘Black 5’ late Ray Tranter. ===First boiler ticket===Restoration was completed in August 1979 when test running was undertaken. A month later 4930 fully entered service and on 22 September made her main line debut, working double-headed with fellow SVR locomotive LMS 5000 from Hereford to Chester and return with the LMSSVRA “The Inter-City” charter. Stanier worked  4930 hauled the official reopening train for Kidderminster Town Station on 30th July 1984. She made a number of other [[The Severn Valley Railway on the GWR before moving to main line | mainline appearances]], notably a storming double-headed run with 7819 Hinton Manor over the LMS, and South Devon banks during the Black GWR 150 celebrations in 1985. A full list of those appearances is as follows: {| class="wikitable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"!Date!!Tour name !! Route !! Notes !! Web !! SVR News|-|22 Sep 1979||Inter-City || Hereford - Chester - Hereford || D/H with 45000. 4930 first main line run || [http://www.sixbellsjunction.co.uk/70s/790922_1.htm SBJ] ||53-12|-|04 Oct 1980||Deeside Venturer || Newport - Hereford - Newport || || [http://www.sixbellsjunction.co.uk/80s/801004dv.htm SBJ] ||56-12|-|14 Feb 1981||Welsh Marches Express || Hereford - Newport - Hereford || || [http://www.sixbellsjunction.co.uk/80s/810214sl.htm SBJ] ||60-30|-|14 Mar 1981||Welsh Marches Express || Hereford - Newport - Hereford || || [http://www.sixbellsjunction.co.uk/80s/810314wm.htm SBJ] ||59-24|-|?? Oct 1981||Welsh Marches Pullman || || 4930 worked 2 tours in October 1981 (SVR News) || ||63-10|-|17 Oct 1981||Welsh Marches Pullman || Shrewsbury - Hereford || || [http://locoperformance.tripod.com/edition16/railtourpage02.htm Locoperf] ||63-10|-|20 Mar 1982||Welsh Marches Express || Hereford - Newport - Hereford || D/H with 45000 || [http://www.sixbellsjunction.co.uk/80s/820320sl.htm SBJ] |||-|17 Apr 1982||Welsh Marches Express || Hereford - Newport - Hereford || D/H with 7812 Erlestoke Manor || ||64-28|-|24 Apr 1982||Welsh Marches Pullman || Shrewsbury - Hereford || D/H with 7812 Erlestoke Manor || [http://www.sixbellsjunction.co.uk/80s/820424wm.htm SBJ] ||64-29|-|19 Feb 1983||Welsh Marches Pullman || Hereford - Newport - Hereford || || [http://www.sixbellsjunction.co.uk/80s/830219wm.htm SBJ] ||67-30|-|26 Feb 1983||Welsh Marches Pullman || Shrewsbury - Hereford || || [http://www.sixbellsjunction.co.uk/80s/830226_1.htm SBJ] ||68-31|-|22 Jan 1985||Post Office special || B'ham Moor St-Stratford-Leamington Spa-B'ham Moor St || PO charter celebrating 150th anniversary of post by rail || ||76-21|-|02 Feb 1985||Red Dragon || Newport - Swindon - Gloucester || || [http://www.sixbellsjunction.co.uk/80s/850202pr.htm SBJ] ||76-37|-|08 Apr 1985||Great Western Limited || Plymouth - Bristol Temple Meads || D/H with 7819 after working L/E from SVR overnight || [http://www.sixbellsjunction.co.uk/80s/850408sl.htm SBJ] ||76-12|-|25 Jun 1985||GW150 Exhibition Train || Highley-Hereford || D/H with 6960 Raveningham Hall || ||77-26|-|06 Jul 1985||Western Stalwart || Kidderminster - Cardiff Central - Hereford || DH with 7029 Clun Castle || [http://www.sixbellsjunction.co.uk/80s/850706pr.htm SBJ] ||77-40|-|07 Jul 1985||Great Western Limited || Bristol Temple Meads - Totnes (terminated) || DH with 5051 Drysllwyn Castle || [http://www.sixbellsjunction.co.uk/80s/850707sl.htm SBJ] ||77-13|-|13 Aug 1985||GW150 Celebrations Excursions || Swindon Gloucester - Swindon || || [http://www.sixbellsjunction.co.uk/80s/850813gw.htm SBJ] |||-|30 Dec 1985||Santa Special || Kidderminster - Hereford - Kidderminster || D/H with 3440 City of Truro || [http://www.sixbellsjunction.co.uk/80s/851230sl.htm SBJ] ||79-12|-|22 Mar 1986||Tiddly Dyke Tour(s) || Andover - Ludgershall (5 drew on many x return) || || [http://www.sixbellsjunction.co.uk/80s/860322ty.htm SBJ] ||80-4|-|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 Hall’s design featuresSunday night ECS working to Bristol (alight at Salisbury).<ref>Steam Railway Magazine No 74</ref> || ||80-4|-|} 4930 was withdrawn from service in October 1986 following failure of several boiler stays. Mileage completed during her first (and so far only) boiler ticket was as follows:{| class="wikitable"! <b>Year</b> !! style="text-align:right;" | <b>Mileage</b> |-| 1979 || style="text-align:right;" | 645|-| 1980 || style="text-align:right;" | 4,225|-| 1981 || style="text-align:right;" | 4,746|-| 1982 || style="text-align:right;" | 5,577|-| 1983 || style="text-align:right;" | 3,445|-| 1984 || style="text-align:right;" | 3,244|-| 1985 || style="text-align:right;" | 6,367|-| 1986 || style="text-align:right;" | 4,964|-| <b>Total</b> || style="text-align:right;" | 33,213|}

Like the Black 5, the Hall was rated 5MT by BR post<Gallery>File:4930 HAGLEY HALL at Wistanstow.jpg | Welsh Marches Express 26 Feb 1983File:Opening train -nationalisation; although its wide cylinders meant it was mainly restricted to exgeograph.org.uk -GWR routes248546.jpg | Kidderminster opening July 1984 </gallery>

===Current status===4930 was built in May 1929 at has not steamed since 1986, the GWR’s Swindon Works and entered service longest period any current locomotive has spent ‘out of ticket’ after working at the Wolverhampton Stafford Road DepotSVR. It was withdrawn from service by BR The intervening years were initially spent in store at Swindon Bridgnorth. Following a cosmetic restoration in December 1963 after a working life of 11999,295,236 miles. The locomotive 4930 was acquired by Woodham's scrap yard placed on loan as a static exhibit at Barry in May 1964the 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 4930 spent a day at the real Hagley Hall in Preservation==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 bought then delayed until 2008 by SVR(H) in June 1972 and was moved from Barry to Bewdley on 6th January 1973. It entered service 6 years later the [[2007 Storm Damage | storm damage in 1979 following restoration2007]].

In September 1979 it double headed 4930’s long-awaited overhaul began with fellow SVR locomotive LMS 5000 a move from Hereford the Engine House to Chester and [[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 SVRA “The Inter-City” chartercorrect 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. On 10 April 2018 it departed from Bridgnorth by road for the workshops of Northern Steam Engineering Ltd. at Stockton, where overhaul commenced. *The cylinder block 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 by Stafford Road Design Ltd., casting by Shakespeare Foundry in Preston, Lancashire and 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.

4930 hauled Updates on the official reopening train for Kidderminster Town Station overhaul can be found on 30th July 1984the news section of the [http://www. It made a number 4930hagleyhall.org.uk/news/news.html Friends of other mainline appearances, notably a storming double-headed run with 7819 Hinton Manor over the South Devon banks during the GWR 150 celebrations in 1985Hagley Hall web site].

4930 was withdrawn from service in October 1986 following failure of several boiler stays. It is owned by SVR(H), but has not steamed sinceits own support group, spending the intervening years in store and on static display at [[Friends of 4930 Hagley Hall | Friends of Hagley Hall]]. By September 2016 the Designer Shopping Complex (sited on Friends had raised over £110,000 towards the former GWR Swindon Works)overhaul.<ref>[http://www.4930hagleyhall.org.uk/news/news.html Friends of Hagley Hall web site]</ref> In addition, and latterly thanks to a [[:Category:Lottery funding#National_Lottery_Heritage_Fund|Heritage Lottery Fund]] grant in February 2014 of £95,000 to the [[The Engine HouseSevern Valley Railway Charitable Trust Ltd]] at Highley. It was moved , apprentices from there to Bridgnorth on Sunday 6th October 2013 for the longHeritage Skills Training Academy are playing an active part in this work.<ref>[http://svrtrust.org.uk/our-projects/hagley-awaited overhaul to beginhall.html Severn Valley Railway Charitable Trust website] (Retrieved 15 February 2017)</ref>

4930 is still owned by SVR(H), but has its own support group, the 4930’s sister locomotive [[Friends of 4930 Hagley GWR 4936 Kinlet Hall | Friends of Hagley 4936 Kinlet Hall]]has visited the SVR on several occasions.

==Sources==Following the GWR's policy of naming locomotives after locations near its lines, 4930 is named after the country house of Hagley Hall, located five miles from [[Kidderminster]]. Whilst being transported by road from the Designer Shopping Complex in Swindon back to the Engine House at Highley in June 2007, the locomotive briefly visited the estate. The country house is the home of Viscount Cobham, and in 2012 the 12th Viscount Cobham accepted an invitation to become patron of the Friends of Hagley Hall.<ref>[http://www.4930hagleyhall.org.uk/ news/news.html Friends of 4930 Hagley Hall- News (November 2012)] Retrieved 23 January 2015</ref> In March 2013, one of the original nameplates off the locomotive was permanently loaned for display in the Engine House by Viscount Cobham.<ref>[http://www.4930hagleyhall.org.uk/news/news.html Friends of 4930 Hagley Hall - News (March 2013)]</ref>

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