SR Merchant Navy Class No. 35009 ''Shaw Savill'' is a 're-built' SR Merchant Navy class 'Pacific' (

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, named after the

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, a British merchant shipping company. The locomotive was built at

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in June 1942 in its original air-smoothed form, and given the number 21C9. One of a batch of eight Merchant Navy class locomotives whose air-smoothed casing was made of asbestos board, 21C9 was from the start in wartime black livery. It was allocated to Salisbury shed. Between 1945 and 1947, the Merchant Navy class were repainted in

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green livery, with yellow lining. 21C9 was one of several in a variant of this livery, in which the smokebox cowls were painted green instead of black. ''Shaw Savill'' was repainted in

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blue livery in August 1949, and in Brunswick Green in February 1953. Between 1956 and 1960, locomotives of the Merchant Navy class were rebuilt and the air-smoothed casing removed. ''Shaw Savill'' was rebuilt in March 1957,Mannion, p. 197 withdrawn from service in July 1964 and arrived at

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scrapyard in Barry, Vale of Glamorgan,

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, in December 1964. At the time of withdrawal it had travelled 1,127,452 miles.Mannion, p. 205 Some time after 1984, the locomotive left Barry for preservation on the Mid Hants Railway (Watercress Line). It spent just over 4 years there but with the Mid Hants railway buying more locos it was decided to move 35009 ''Shaw Savill'' again, to

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. By late 2009, ''Shaw Savill'' lay dismantled at Buckley Wells shed in Bury. Its current owner Ian Riley had previously offered the locomotive for sale. By 2019, Shaw Savill was still in unrestored condition following years of storage outside the shed in Bury; in September it was announced that the engine was to be restored to working order. The engine's frames, boiler and other parts were moved to Riley & Son Ltd in Heywood for restoration to mainline standard.https://www.facebook.com/Rileysuk/photos/pcb.2489636824448698/2489636191115428/?type=3&theater Frames and boiler being moved to Riley & Son

Photographic chronology

File:SR Merchant Navy Class 21C09 Shaw Savill around 1944.jpg File:Bulleid Pacific locomotives at Woodhams Scrapyard Barry.jpg, 35009 ''Shaw Savill'' (left) with

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class 34073 ''249 Squadron'' (right)
at Woodham's Scrapyard, Barry in 1984 File:35009 shaw savill.jpg, Boiler of ''Shaw Savill'' in the yard at Baron street, Bury

References

External links

{{Commons category, BR rebuilt Merchant Navy class 35009 Shaw Savill
35009 page on Riley & Son (E) Ltd website
– ''includes photos and 'For Sale' ad''
A picture of Shaw Savill at the Barry Scrapyard
Merchant Navy 35009 Locomotives saved from Woodham Brothers scrapyard Standard gauge steam locomotives of Great Britain individual locomotives of Great Britain Railway locomotives introduced in 1942 4-6-2 locomotives