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Happily still with us today 5043" Earl of Mount Edgcumbe " was saved from Woodhams' Scrap Yard at Barry in August of 1973 after being sent there in April of 1964 following withdrawal from Cardiff East Dock on 16th. December , 1963 .
Initially being purchased by Birmingham Railway Museum as the source of a replacement boiler for the already preserved 7029 " Clun Castle " , in 1996 plans were made to restore 5043 at Tyseley , and the engine ran again under her own steam on 3rd. October 2008 , subsequently working the non stop " Bristolian " Special from Paddington to Bristol Temple Meads and back on 17th . April , 2010 .
In its earlier years 5043 had been allocated to Old Oak Common before a move to Cardiff Canton in 1962 , followed by just four months at Cardiff East Dock from August of 1963.
Mount Edgcumbe is a large estate and house on the Cornish bank of the River Tamar , overlooking Plymouth and the dockyards at Devonport.