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A Facebook post https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1268010833267902&set=gm.10154520148736989&type=3&theater from David Giddins to the 'closed' Unofficial Severn Valley Railway Facebook group shows an 80xxx BR Standard Tank on the 3.45pm Hartlebury to Shrewsbury train running into Bridgnorth on the last day of the BR Service in September 1963 (late Russell Mulford).
Stretton captions an image as being 80079 emerging from Bridgnorth tunnel on 30 August 1962 on an empty 7.27p.m. Bridgnorth to Shrewsbury; possibly a Mensing image.<ref>[[Bibliography#Books|Stretton (2010)]] p. 90</ref> BR Database has the loco at Croes Newydd from 15 July 1962. If so, that would be a real rarity, an SVR based loco that ran on the line in service. I can't make out a number. Is there any corroboration?--[[User:Patrick Hearn|Patrick Hearn]] ([[User talk:Patrick Hearn|talk]]) 16:14, 21 July 2021 (UTC)--[[User:Patrick Hearn|Patrick Hearn]] ([[User talk:Patrick Hearn|talk]]) 16:14, 21 July 2021 (UTC)
