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GWR Small Prairie 4566

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==4566 in service==
4566 was built in Swindon in 1924 to Lot No. 226 and entered service at Newton Abbot, and spent most of its working life based at sheds in Devon and Cornwall.<ref>[http://www.rail.co.uk/rail-news/2015/happy-birthday-dear-4566/ 'Happy birthday dear 4566', rail.co. uk, 19 June 2015] (Retrieved 3 January 2019)</ref> Post-War, the locomotive worked in the far south west, including allocations to St. Ives and Penzance sheds. 4566 was notable for being the last steam locomotive overhauled at Newton Abbot works, completed on 15 July 1960, being ceremonially driven out of the works by the chairman of the local urban district council (a mainline diesel driver).<ref>[https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1417780338248850&id=161421647218065 Didcot Railway Centre Facebook Page], retrieved 15 Jul 2016</ref>
The engine was withdrawn from BR service at Plymouth Laira shed in April 1962 having achieved 967,914 miles in preservationservice,arriving at [[Barry Scrapyard | Barry]] in August of that year.<ref name = "BarryStory">The Barry Story, Beckett & Hardingham (2010)</ref><ref name = "SB9"/><ref>[http://www.greatwestern.org.uk/262_4500det.htm The Great Western Archive] retrieved (Retrieved 27 January 2015,</ref> arriving at [[Barry Scrapyard | Barry]] in August of that year.<ref name = "BarryStory">The Barry Story, Beckett & Hardingham (2010)</ref>
==4566 in preservation==
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