Fresh from overhaul - was it its last repaint? Now enhanced in appearance by virtue of its splendid fully lined out green livery, Laira shed's 1021 County of Montgomery looks so much better than it did in its earlier days of black, and apart from the white scale on the smokebox presents a pleasing image of a County in its later years complete with its Hawksworth flush sided tender and copper capped double chimney . Laira used its Counties to full advantage on a variety of duties, having four of the class on their allocation in mid 1956, the remainder of the thirty strong class being spread throughout the Western Region, with examples to be found at Shrewsbury in the North, down to Chester and Neyland and as far West as Penzance, but Bristol Bath Road and Shrewsbury came equal tops with no less than six Counties allocated to each of those two Motive Power Depots at that time