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==Service and preservation==
3612 was built at Swindon and entered GWR service in March 1939at Aberbeeg shed in Blaenau Gwent, South Wales. Post-war <ref>[http://www.greatwestern.org.uk/060_3600det.htm greatwestern.org.uk]</ref> In May 1950 the locomotive was re-allocated to the Welsh sheds of Aberbeeg in 1947 and Llantrisant shed in 1950Mid-Glamorgan, South Wales from where it was withdrawn from BR service in October 1964.<ref>[http://www.brdatabase.info/locoqry.php?action=locodata&type=S&id=3612&loco=3612 BRDatabase]</ref>
3612 arrived at [[Barry Scrapyard]] in March 1965.<ref name=BarryList>[[Bibliography#Other References|Beckett & Hardingham (2010)]] p. 60.</ref> In summer 1978 the SVR company decided to purchase 3612 as a source of spare parts, particularly to provide new wheels for 5764 which had been languishing at [[Bridgnorth]] since early 1977 after suffering a slipped tyre The boiler would also be retained as a spare.<ref>SVR News 48</ref> The locomotive left Barry in December 1978<ref name=BarryList/> and was dismantled shortly after arrival, the Winter 1978-79 edition of SVR News reporting that the wheels had been extracted on an exceedingly cold weekend and were awaiting re-profiling and attention to the journals and sheaves before re-wheeling 5764, while the boiler had been temporarily 'stored' on [[Eardington]] platform.<ref>SVR News 50.</ref>
