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==34027 Taw Valley in preservation==
Taw Valley became the 112th locomotive to leave Barry when departing in April 1980.<ref name=BarryList/> The locomotive was initially privately purchased for use on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway, but moved to the East Lancashire Railway at Bury in November 1982 where restoration began in earnest.<ref group="note">The Barry List also refers to a move to Hull after the NYMR.</ref> In August of 1985 the SVR announced that agreement had been reached with then owner Bert Hitchen for the locomotive to move to the SVR where restoration to main line standard would be completed by the SVR as a contract job. It was then anticipated that the locomotive would become resident while working both on the SVR and [[The Severn Valley Railway on the main line | on the main line]].<ref name=SVR77>SVR News 77, 78</ref>
===Tender===
The tender that is coupled to Taw Valley is an amalgam of new and old. The tank was constructed at Shipyard Services, Brightlingsea and was transported to Riley & Son in Bury where a new underframe was fabricated. This was fitted with wheels, axleboxes and springs from an ex-LNER tender chassis and so lacks, among other things, the distinctive Bulleid Firth Brown wheels of the class. It is fitted with Southern-style axle box covers. The completed tender was delivered in December 1983 to the ELR which was the then base for Taw Valley<ref>[https://forum.svr-online.org.uk/viewtopic.php?t=554 Swallow, Phil., SVR forum 'Taw Valley model' thread, 11 February 2007] (Retrieved 15 October 2021)</ref>.
===First boiler ticket===
