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Following the closure of the former M&GNJR, 43106 was transferred to Woodford Halse on the former Great Central Railway in July 1956. There the locomotive was mostly used on freight workings to Banbury and also on the Stratford and Midland Joint line, usually to Stratford Old Town or Gloucester. In March 1962 Woodford Halse came under London Midland control and 43106 began a series of short stints at Saltley, Wellingborough, Kettering and Trafford Park before a move to Heaton Mersey shed in September 1963. There it worked trip freights in the Stockport district and passenger trains between Manchester Central to Cheadle Heath, before being stored in serviceable condition for around 9 months.<ref name=SVR12/>
In August 1966 43106 moved to Carlisle Kingsmoor Depot.<ref name=SVR12/> During 1967 43106 became one of a number of locomotives cleaned by the "[[Master Neverers Association]]" on the occasion of a Langholm / Alston railtour.<ref>Never Again Volume 3, Never Again Publishing, ISBN 978-1-5272-2765-1, p. 12.</ref> The locomotive made several trips into Scotland including the most northerly on 25 February 1967, a railtour from Carlisle to Beattock and back during which the 43106 became the last steam locomotive to use Beattock turntable. The locomotive was also used regularly as Carlisle station pilot during 1967.<ref name=SVR12/> She was allocated to her final shed, Lostock Hall, in September 1967.<ref name=BRD>[http://www.brdatabase.info/locoqry.php?action=locodata&type=S&id=426002107&loco=43106 BRDatabase] retrieved 27 January 2015.</ref> After suffering a minor derailment at Colne in April 1968, BR considered damage to her intermediate drawgear to be too serious for economic repair and the locomotive was stored for two months until being officially withdrawn from service on 23 June 1968<ref name=SVR12/> after a relatively short working life of 17 years 2 months<ref name=BRD/>.
==43106 in preservation==
