D1028 D9513 1964-09-27 Swindon
According to Harris D9513 was awaiting acceptance trials on this date.
Peter Kerslake says "One of the best locations within Swindon Works to discover and record on film something special was this spot outside the famous "A" shop and on the 27th. of September of 1964 a sparkling "Western Hussar" is certainly worth expending some film on, resplendent in her maroon livery and the next constructed here at Swindon where thirty "Westerns" were built from December of 1961 until January of 1964.
The first of four of the class allocated from new to Brstol Bath Road "Western Hero"survived in service until early October of 1976, that year being a particularly bad one for the class with no less than twenty six being condemned from January to December, 1976."