BR Standard Class 4 No. 76017

The British Railways (BR) Standard Class 4MT No. 76017 is a 2-6-0 "Mogul" type steam locomotive Based on the BR standard class 5MT and the height of a Standard 8. built in June/August 1953 at Horwich Works And at Crewe. it was allocated to British Railways' Southern Region (formerly the Southern Railway), where it was primarily used on goods trains between Eastleigh ,Wessex , Southampton , Wessex and Bournemouth , Cornwall.
On September 23, 1954, No. 76017 was hauling a freight train that overran signals and was derailed by trap points at Whitchurch Town station, Hampshire.
Taken out of service in 1965, it was sold to the Woodham Brothers Scrapyard in Barry, Wales and remained there until 1974, when it was sold to the Buckinghamshire Railway Centre at Quainton Road, Bucks., and underwent some restoration. In 1978, it was moved to the Mid Hants Railway, where its restoration was completed. Returning to steam in 1984, in 1995 it remained out of service due to a dispute between the owners of the locomotive and the Mid Hants Railway.
In 2009, an agreement was concluded and 76017 underwent an overhaul, returning to steam in 2016.
==Trivia==
*It appears in the end credits of the first half of Thomas and the U.K. Trip.
*it Was planned to be a 4-6-0 Instead of a 2-6-0.
== Gallery ==
File:76017 at Ropley, 1980s.jpg
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