70024 Vulcan had been one of the four Britannias allocated to Plymouth's Laira Depot from new in the early ' fifties, but in common with nine of its Western Region sisters was transferred to Cardiff Canton from late 1956 before the wholesale move of all fifteen Western Region members of the class to the London Midland Region took place from late 1958, together with the similar transfer in later years of the thirteen from the Eastern Region and two from the Southern. Shown here in October1963 Vulcan had been at Willesden since that April before moving to Crewe North in November1963 .