Withdrawals of the class took ten years with the last loco being No. 420 working at Tyne Dock, it was condemned on the 22nd of April and the class slipped in to history with non being preserved.
There then followed restoration to full working order, initially at Tyne Dock where the locomotive was stored after withdrawal, then professionally at the then still functioning National Coal Board workshops at Philadelphia, Tyne and Wear, and then at Thornaby Depot.
The remaining four gravitated to their natural habitat, Tyne Dock depot near South Shields.
Tyne Dock Metro station, on the Tyne and Wear Metro, serves the Tyne Dock area, as well as neighbouring West Harton.
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