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4920Dumbleton Hall is aGWR 4900 Class4-6-0steam locomotive, built by theGreat Western Railway'sSwindon Works in March 1929. Named afterDumbleton Hall, its first shed allocation was atOld Oak Common. In August 1950, the next shed allocation wasReading, and in March 1959 it was allocated toNewton Abbot. The locomotive's last shed allocation was Bristol Barrow Road. It was withdrawn fromBritish Railways service in December 1965 and sold toWoodham Brothers scrapyard inBarry, Wales.
It was purchased by the Dumbleton Hall Preservation Society,[1] and left as the 82nd departure from Barry in June 1976 before being fully restored in 1992 for service on theDartmouth Steam Railway. Meanwhile the DHPS was used to purchase the Dart Valley Branch after this put up for sale by its owners, which saw the DVR become theSouth Devon Railway and DHPS become the South Devon Railway Trust - with the original DHPS Shareholders maintaining their ownership.
After spells on loan to theWest Somerset Railway,Nene Valley Railway andGloucestershire Warwickshire Railway, 4920 returned to the Dartmouth Steam Railway and was last steamed in October 1999.[2][3]
It was subsequently stored out of use at Buckfastleigh on theSouth Devon Railway, awaiting overhaul. In December 2020 it was sold to a new owner. In February 2021 it moved toCarnforth for cosmetic restoration byWest Coast Railways.[4][5] It is on long term loan toWarner Bros. In December 2021 it was exported fromSouthampton toJapan where it will form part of aHarry Potter static exhibit atWarner Bros Studio Tour inTokyo.[6][7]
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