Hornby R3939 Late BR Standard 2MT 2-6-0 No.78000 rockets They performed well on secondary

They performed well on secondary and inter-regional services for many years

going down with the SS Thistlegrom

As noted above

Southern Railways sent the unnamed locos to a station near to the School after which they were to be named

Hornby R3939 Late BR Standard 2MT 2-6-0 No.78000 rockets They performed well on secondary78000 entered traffic at Oswestry on 27 December 1952 along with the other nine 2MT locomotives from the first batch, displacing the GWR Dean Goods and Cambrian Railways' 0 6 0s from their local passenger and freight duties. As the new locomotives and their crews became accustomed to their new operating areas, they were dispersed to other sheds and so 78000 found itself allocated to Machynlleth for work between Shrewsbury, Oswestry and the Welsh coast