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In 1958 it was fitted with a larger water capacity LP Series 2 tender, then rebuilt in November of that year. In 1960 it was transferred to Bournemouth, where it often hauled the Pines Express on the Somerset & Dorset Railway. A further trip to Eastleigh followed in 1963.
34053 was withdrawn from service by BR in October 1965 and , by which time it had run 825,317 miles. It was towed to [[Barry Scrapyard | Woodham's scrapyard]] at Barry the following March. Some connecting rods in 34053's tender struck a bridge near Chandler's Ford and the convoy of locos were left at the east siding of Romsey station for several weeks.
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File:Eastleigh Locomotive Works - 1958 - geograph.org.uk - 1705234.jpg | 34053 at Eastleigh works for conversion, John Lucas (Wikimedia Commons)
File:Sir Keith Park 34053 (8426231585).jpg | 34053 at Barry in 1968 (Wikimedia Commons)
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