Great Western Railway The Great Western Railway (GWR) was a British railway company that linked London with the southwest, west and West Midlands of England and most of Wales. It was founded in 1833, received its enabling Act of Parliament on 31 August 1835 and ran ...

7800 Class No. 7827 ''Lydham Manor'' is a preserved

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. It is currently (March 2013) owned by and based on the

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. The locomotive was built in December 1950. Its first shed allocation was at Chester. In March 1959, its shed allocation was moved to Oswestry. It conducted improved draughting tests in February 1954. In May 1965, it received its last shed allocation at Shrewsbury. No. 7827 was withdrawn in October 1965 and acquired by Woodham's of

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, in May 1966. It was sold to Dart Valley Railway and left the scrapyard as the fifth departure from Barry in June 1970. No. 7827 was restored in 1972. It carried the Great Western Livery, which it would never have carried while in mainline service, as it was built two years after the end of the Great Western Railway (GWR). In 2011, ''Lydham Manor'' was reintroduced at the Churston Heritage Festival carrying British Rail all-black livery and bearing the temporary nameplates ''Torquay Manor'' and number plates of ''No. 7800'' for the festival. ''Lydham Manor'' has been on loan to other heritage railways/centres including,

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in 2010 before it was painted in BR black, South Devon Railway in a visit for September 2013, and then traveling to

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in October 2013 for the steam gala festival .

Allocations

{{GWR Manor Class 7827 Railway locomotives introduced in 1950 7827 Standard gauge steam locomotives of Great Britain