With 4570 on the next line both ex Laira in good external condition for September 1962 and January 1963 withdrawals.
Peter Kerslake says "Having run their last miles in service a number of withdrawn engines minus their number plates and connecting rods await the cutters' torches here at Swindon in 1964.
When introduced in 1906 early examples were allocated to the Rhondda Valley in Wales, working local passenger duties within the Swansea and Port Talbot areas but later years took the class members to a wide area of Western Region territory, primarily rostered on branch line duties for which they were well suited.
4567 had been a Worcester engine in the mid 'fifties, one of the fifth series of twenty built at Swindon in 1924, the class eventually totalling one hundred and later to be followed by seventy five of the "4575" series distinguished by their sloping water tank tops and increased water capacity of 1300 gallons.
The first withdrawal came in 1950 when 4531 was condemned, the final four lasting until 1964."