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Originally built with innovative features including air-smoothed casings and chain-driven valve gear, many of the locomotives including 34053 were rebuilt by British Railways in the late 1950s.
34053 was built in 1946 at the SR’s Brighton Worksand entered service as SR no [[UIC classification | 21C153]]. It was originally allocated to Salisbury MPD but also worked from the Stewarts Lane depot, where it hauled prestige services such as the Golden Arrow on many occasions. In 1960 it was transferred to Bournemouth, where it often hauled the Pines Express on the Somerset & Dorset Railway.
34053 was withdrawn from service by BR in October 1966 and towed to Barry scrap yard the following March.
==34053 in preservation==
