Description:Although the locomotive’s number cannot be discerned in this postcard photograph, it is thought to be LNWR 1054 which was to become LMS 7799 and BR 58926. The was the last survivor of this Francis Webb design, built at Crewe in 1888. It was loaned to the NCB in 1954. She was cleaned up ready to be filmed assisting the last passenger train on the Merthyr to Abergavenny line in 1958 before being used as a stationary boiler unit at Pontypool Road MPD. Transferred to Crewe in 1958 for scrapping, she was saved by Mr J.M.Dunn (former Shedmaster at Bangor) and fellow enthusiasts who raised £500 by public subscription: her original LNWR livery was resurrected costing a further £150 and in 1962 she was placed in the custody of the West Midland District of the Rail Preservation Society at Hednesford for safe storage.
In 1963 it was arranged for 1054 to be given to the National Trust at Penrhyn Castle, North Wales and some years afterwards it was placed into the care of the ‘Bahamas’ Locomotive Society at their Dinting Railway Centre near Glossop in Derbyshire, although still under National Trust ownership. In 2013 it was awarded an Institution of Mechanical Engineers’ Engineering Heritage Award. In January 2022 boiler testing was proceeding at the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway's workshop at Ingrow.
The Hednesford Depot was closed when remaining stock was transferred to Chasewater in 1970.