Following just over two months allocated from new to Newton Abbot in April 1928 " King Edward VI " was destined to spend the next twenty six years further west at Laira , remaining there until June 1954 when it went to Old Oak Common.
6012 ended its days at Stafford Road, transferred from Old Oak in April 1962, and condemned from there in September before being sold to Cox and Danks for scrapping at that Company's Langley Green yards.
Swindon would have insisted that all number and nameplates would be removed at Stafford Road immediately upon the locomotive's withdrawal, and those valued parts would be sent up to Swindon Works Stores for subsequent sale, and this view shows that this has already been done