In for a washout It lasted to the end of the year and the end of steam. Not looking as pristine now as it did in the photograph taken of this same locomotive in new colours at Swindon Works in July 1961, 7222 has, however, been adorned with a rather distinctive hand painted smokebox door numberplate to replace its original, and some fine fellow has made a good job of it even though it might not conform to the regulation design ! An impressive looking engine, doubtless having provided years of service in and around South Wales on heavy coal and mineral workings, 7222 had been rebuilt from the lighter 2-8-0 number 5257 in the early ' thirties with increased coal capacity, lengthened frames and an additional trailing set of wheels turning them into 2-8-2 heavier freight locomotives than were the originals