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After its retirement by British Railways in 1962, former Great Western Railway (GWR) 4-6-0 steam locomotive No. 6023 King Edward II was sent to the Woodham Brothers scrapyard in Barry, Wales, where it was damaged in a shunting accident and then stripped for parts. Someone wrote WE CAN'T SAVE THIS ONE on the rusting locomotive, but in 1984 King Edward II was bought from the scrapyard and slowly restored to become the third preserved King-class engine after No. 6000 King George V and No. 6024 King Edward I. I saw King Edward II, which has by now outlasted its short-lived namesake, wearing the short-lived BR blue passenger livery at Didcot Railway Centre.

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After its retirement by British Railways in 1962, former Great Western Railway (GWR) 4-6-0 steam locomotive No. 6023 King Edward II was sent to the Woodham Brothers scrapyard in Barry, Wales, where it was damaged in a shunting accident and then stripped for parts. Someone wrote WE CAN'T SAVE THIS ONE on the rusting locomotive, but in 1984 King Edward II was bought from the scrapyard and slowly restored to become the third preserved King-class engine after No. 6000 King George V and No. 6024 King Edward I. I saw King Edward II, which has by now outlasted its short-lived namesake, wearing the short-lived BR blue passenger livery at Didcot Railway Centre.