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LMS Stanier Class 5 45000

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===Restoration===
45000 arrived at the SVR on loan from the [[NRMNational Railway Museum]] on 19 November 1977, with the intention of being restored for main line working. Stripping the locomotive began straight away, the first task being to empty several barrow loads of ash from the smokebox left over from the last steaming 10 years earlier. However pressure of work on other SVR locomotives then delayed serious progress until late 1978, with the boiler being lifted by the [[Cowans Sheldon 30-ton steam crane RS 1087|30 ton steam crane]] in Christmas week. The boiler work required complete replacement of all 21 big and 136 small tubes plus renewal of a number of firebox stays. This was completed in time for the boiler to be reinstalled on Easter Saturday, 14 April 1979. A rail tour planned for June of that year led to much ‘burning of the midnight oil’, an example of which being that 5000 moved under her own power for the first time at 1.00am on Saturday 28 April.
The restoration was duly completed and the locomotive entered service in LMS livery as No 5000, moving light engine to Hereford on 1 June 1979 in time to work a rail tour the following day<ref>SVR News 52, "Miracles take a little longer, the Story of the 5000 Renovation" (Tony Pirie)</ref>. The SVR later won the 1979 ARPS award for restoring 5 locomotives in the year including LMS 5000.<ref>SVR News 55</ref>
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