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==Preservation==
Dunrobin and a saloon were sold in 1950 to the Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway. The locomotive ran large parts of the 700+ mile journey (from Helmsdale to Carlisle and from Ashford to New Romney) under its own steam. <ref>[http://www.scotlandrailholiday.com/dunrobin/locomotive.htm Journal of The Stephenson Locomotive Society for August 1950, via Scotland Rail Holiday website] (Retrieved 31 March 2024)</ref> The locomotive was exported to Canada in 1965, but acquired in January 2011 by the Beamish Living Museum of the North<ref>[http://www.beamish.org.uk/beamish-buys-dunrobin/ Beamish announcement]</ref> and repatriated to the UK. On arrival, Dunrobin was brought to Bridgnorth on 19 May 2011 to be dismantled and the feasibility of restoration to working order assessed. Contracts were subsequently let to [[Severn Valley Railway Engineering Services]] for boiler and mechanical overhaul at [[Bridgnorth Loco Works]].
==Current status==
In May 2021 Beamish Museum announced they had received a grant of £150,000 to complete the work and was waiting for the SVR to allocate it a place in their workstream. The work to this point had been chassis-focussed, with the aim being to install the new cylinder block and wheel Dunrobin, before completing the boiler (which was nearly finished) and final assembly.<ref>[http://beamishtransportonline.co.uk/2021/05/dunrobin-ten-years-on/ Beamish Transport Online blog, ''DUNROBIN – TEN YEARS ON'', Paul Jarman, 19 May 2021]</ref>
Work recommenced at Bridgnorth in Autumn 2022 , with some smaller works, and Dunrobin to enter re-entering the Loco workshops at Bridgnorth with a re-start on its rebuild imminent.<ref>[http://beamishtransportonline.co.uk/2022/10/ti-news-24-2022/ Beamish Transport Online blog 22 October 2022] (Retrieved 2 November 2022)</ref> In June 2023 an important milestone was reached with the re-wheeling of the chassis after a number of years on an accommodation bogie.<ref>[https://www.svrlive.com/bljun23 Branch Lines June 2023]</ref> This followed the fitting of the new cylinder block and alignment of slide bars. Yet more new metal is the replacement of the bunker and rear-cab section: the SVR sub-contracted the construction to the Ffestiniog & Welsh Highland Railway, who had earlier made the new tanks.<ref>[https://beamishtransportonline.co.uk/category/dunrobin/ Beamish Transport Online blog, T&I NEWS 11 2023, and 2 2024, 27 May 2023 and 29 February 2024] (Retrieved 31 March 2024)</ref>
[http://beamishtransportonline.co.uk/category/dunrobin/ Beamish Transport Online blog] has regular updates on progress of the work.
