List of preserved BR Standard Class 9F locomotives

Seven locomotives were obtained from Woodham Brothers scrapyard in Barry, Vale of Glamorgan, South Wales.

At the moment the most likely outcome for 92245 is that it will be dismantled and sectioned in order to be part of an exhibition at Barry that will tell the story of the Woodham Brothers scrapyard.[speculation?]

It was still there in 1988, fully stripped down, but ownership wrangles led to it being resold again and it then headed to the North Yorkshire Moors Railway.

In the summer of 2021, 92134 was used to portray a German steam locomotive in the 2023 movie Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.

[7][8][9] The locomotive was purchased straight from BR by the artist David Shepherd for £3,000[10] and moved to the Longmoor Military Railway.

During this period, 92203 visited several other heritage railways and in September 1982 hauled the heaviest freight train in Britain at 2,198 tonnes, at Foster Yeoman's Tor Works.

It was part of lot number 429 (the final order for main line steam locomotives by British Rail).

[11] Costing £38,000 to build, including a 5,000-gallon tender, 92207 was completed in May 1959, and despatched to Bristol St Phillips Marsh Depot.

Its main duties were heavy iron ore trains from South Wales, but during its stay at Bristol it did make a rare venture to Blackpool on an excursion.

In February 1960 it was transferred to Southall for use on fast 'fitted' freight trains, and occasional use on Paddington to Plymouth passenger duties.

After a short stay 92207 then moved to Oxford and Banbury sheds where it returned to providing the motive power for heavy iron ore trains from South Wales again.

After a brief return to Bristol St Phillips Marsh, 92207 was transferred in November 1964 to its final depot, Newport Ebbw Junction, where it acquired its 86b shed plate (the one it will carry in preservation).

It arrived as part of a convoy in March 1965 and remained there 21 years and 7 months – four times longer than it was in service with BR – until it became the 180th locomotive to leave the scrap yard, on 21 October 1986 but with no tender.

During its 19-year stay there around £90,000 was spent on new parts acquisition, forgings and castings and the complete restoration of the main frames, axleboxes and 5 wheelsets to MT276 Mainline standard.

Shillingstone has no decent restoration facility, the two-road workshop (with gantry crane) donated in 2014 by one member was sold at a loss by the present Secretary and all locomotive movements are locked down by the ORR because of failure to implement safety management systems.

Following a major overhaul lasting just over two years, in which time it was purchased by Jeremy Hosking, the locomotive returned to operational service on 11 September 2009.

The name had been carried by three locomotives on the former London and North Eastern Railway (LNER), of classes P2[19] its rebuilt form as A2/2,[20] and C11.

[21] The name was suggested by Valerie Walter, the Company Secretary of the company owning the locomotive (PV Premier Limited), whose grandfather served with the Gordon Highlanders during the First World War (Cock o' the North being the traditional epithet attached to the Chief of the Gordon Clan of Scotland), with no prior knowledge that the name had been used by the LNER for some of their locomotives.

However, due to the lack of many significant components such as the connecting rods, motion, and the tender, the locomotive remained largely in ex-Barry condition, stored in the open air at Swanwick Junction, adjacent to the Exhibition Hall.

[26] After being displayed at the "Locomotion" museum at Shildon, County Durham, the engine returned to its birthplace, Swindon Works, on 3 September 2008.

Re-entering traffic in 1990 as the first restored Barry 9F, it ran only a few years before several boiler stays were found to need replacement.

After many years awaiting overhaul on public view in the locomotive shed at Sheffield Park, it moved in September 2009 with cousin 4MT No 75027 to be on static display at platform 1 at Horsted Keynes.

It has been confirmed that the loco is to be dismantled and sectioned in the future as part of an exhibition at Barry that will tell the story of the Woodham Brothers scrapyard.