Truro shed looked after its allocation of motive power with two Counties on its books in the mid ' fifties, 1007, County of Brecknock, and 1023, County of Oxford rostered on a variety of duties, working regularly up through the Duchy to Plymouth, and often beyond, as well as westwards down to Penzance as seen here. Favourites for the daily afternoon milk train from Cornwall to the Capital the two Countiesat Truro together with the three at Penzance were also regularly entrusted with the Cornish Riviera and other express passenger duties between Cornwall and Plymouth . An indication of the versatility of duties performed by the Counties is that the thirty members of the class were spread over no less than eight Motive Power Depots at this period in time, ranging from the five down here in Cornwall to Chester (3 ) and Shrewsbury (6) further North and Neyland in Wales ( 4 ) as well as Swindon ( 2 ), Laira ( 4 ), and Bristol Bath Road which had as many as six in 1956.