Now with BR(S) lamp brackets on the smokebox door, when it arrived at Bath Green Park in the spring of 1961 it did not have them.
Peter Kerslake says "Cole was around 30 miles from Bath on the Somerset and Dorset line, midway between Evercreech Junction and Templecombe The station was served by most of the passenger workings on the line but by just a single freight heading down from Bath in the early evening, its freight traffic consisting mainly of coal and bacon from a local factory. The station was crossed just at its northern end by the main line between Paddington and the West Country. Allocated from new to Leeds Holbeck, Standard 73054 came to the Somerset and Dorset in 1961. "