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==7325 in preservation==
7325 arrived at [[Barry Scrapyard]] in November 1964. It was one of only two members of the class preserved and the only "Collett mogul" (the other, No. 5322, being is an early Churchward example which saw service in France during World War I with the British Army's Railway Operating Division . Plans were announced in January 1967 for 5322 to be acquired for preservation on the SVR<ref>SVR News 4</ref> but this did not take place and which the locomotive is now preserved at the Didcot Railway Centre<ref>[https://didcotrailwaycentre.org.uk/article.php/72/5322-43xx-class Didcot Railway Centre]</ref>).
In mid-1972 the newly-formed Great Western Locomotive and Carriage Society made '9303' its first target for preservation.<ref>SVR News 25</ref> The following year the Society merged with the Great Western Rolling Stock Fund to become the [[Great Western (SVR) Assoc. |The Great Western (SVR) Association]]. By spring 1974 volunteers were working on the locomotive at Barry, with the purchase being finalised in May 1974 with the aid of a loan in order to avoid a price increase proposed by Dai Woodham in June of that year.<ref>SVR News 31, 32, 87</ref>
