Paget had initially financed it himself but eventually ran out of money, thus the railway made up for the difference.

There had been a history on the railway's of a distrust of new ideas and Paget and Deeley were not on good terms, with Lowe suggesting a great hostility to it.

It had problems with seizing of the phosphor bronze sleeves in the cast iron steam chest, with leakage in the glands and piston rings.

In 1912, one of the rotary valves seized while on a test run, the engine blocking the main line for seven hours.

As a result, it was put in store at Derby and was broken up in 1918, while Paget was in France commanding the Royal Engineers Railway Operating Division.