Destined to be one of the lucky ones to escape the cutters' torches aftr withdrawal , 2807 which was one of the early 1905 examples emerging from Swindon was initially put to work in the London area but in 1911 she was reallocated to the South Wales Depots at Aberdare and then Pontypool Road , working heavy coal trains in the first war years .
Late moves took 2807 to a variety of new homes ranging from Wolverhampton in the north down to Newton Abbot in the far Westcountry .
Withdrawn in early 1963 this one of the original series of her class was rescued from Barry Scrapyard in mid 1981 , eighteen years later , was restored at Tyseley and is now on the Gloucestershire and Warwickshire Railway .