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Although an LMS design, 43106 was built after nationalisation by BR at the former LNER Darlington Works. The locomotive entered service at South Lynn, Norfolk in April 1951 where it remained for 5 years. Whilst operating in East Anglia it carried Whitaker token exchange apparatus fitted into a "pocket" towards the front of the tender. Most of the tooling to reproduce the apparatus this locomotive carried whilst there has been made.
Thereafter 43106 was mostly based in the East Midlands and Merseyside. Following a short spell at Carlisle, 43106 was withdrawn from service by BR at at Lostock Hall, Preston in August June 1968 after a relatively short working life of 17 years 2 months.
<ref>[http://www.brdatabase.info/locoqry.php?action=locodata&type=S&id=426002107&loco=43106 BRDatabase] retrieved 27 January 2015.</ref>
