From September 1955 revised cylinder covers were introduced for renewals incorporating "bolt-on" type pressure relief valves.

The class had a short life as most of the work that they had been built for soon disappeared with the branch lines and the introduction of DMU services on shorter routes.

One of these four had run very few miles since its final overhaul, and enquiries were made about saving it, but the price being asked (£1,500, roughly £27,700 today) was too high and they went for scrap at Cashmore's in Newport, South Wales, being broken up as late as October 1968.

From 1957 onwards, those members of the class based on the Western Region started to receive lined green livery.

From the early 1960s, some Western Region class members also received unlined green livery as an economy measure.

The locomotive is under construction at the Severn Valley Railway with the frames, cab, driving wheels, smokebox and cylinders assembled.

[9] Unlike a number of other "new-build" projects the group building 82045 will equip the locomotive with a traditional riveted boiler complete with copper firebox.

The 16-spoke driving wheels from BR standard class 4 2-6-0 No.76080 – which was broken up at Barry scrapyard in early 1972 – which are stored at Eardington Halt, were to have been used for the new build.