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Disused locomotive at Fairfield Shipbuilding Yard, Chepstow, May 1967. Neilson & Co, Glasgow, 0-4-0 ST (flat-topped ‘ogee’ form of saddle tank) no.2119 of 1876, new to Great Eastern Railway as no.229 (one of 8 class 209 locos, later LNER Class Y5, of which 4 were built by Neilson & Co 1874-76, and 4 by the GER 1897 and 1903), rebuilt by GER 1894-95 (cab added, new boiler, etc). Sold 1917/18 to National Shipyard No.1, Chepstow. Sold with site 1920 to Monmouth Shipbuilding Co Ltd. Sold with site 1926 to Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Co Ltd. Sold into preservation 1982, initially to Dean Forest Railway, Gloucestershire, later to North Woolwich Station Museum, London (closed 2008). By 2012 at Lydney, Gloucestershire. Sole survivor of this class and, in 2015, one of only 7 Neilson locomotives preserved in the UK (11 others in Australia, Finland, New Zealand).