No 3850 was purchased by Woodhams scrapyard. Barry, where it languished for almost twenty years. During 1983, the 38XX Preservation Society was launched with a view to bringing one of the Great Western 2-8-0's to the WSR and restoring it for use on the line. Alot of interest was shown in the appeal - the prospect of a GWR tender engine on the WSR stimulating the imagination - and sufficient funds were raised to enable No 3850, the chosen locomotive, to be purchased on February 26 1984. The locomotive arrived at Bishops Lydeard by road, being unloaded on March 3 of that year.
Built in 1942 and owned by Dinmore Manor Locomotive Ltd who restored it to working order on the West Somerset Railway.
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