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Vic Berry's Survivor
The former 40118 now preserved at Tyseley is pictured at Vic Berry's scrapyard , date unknown but sometime in 1988., , BR Career : New to Crewe in February 1961 as D318 , became 40118 retaining a working boiler even after its final works overhaul at Crewe in February 1978., It suffered a total main generator failure in November 1981 whilst working the 1652 Bangor - Manchester and it took several trips back to the works before BR finally accepted back in traffic in 1983., It was first withdrawn in February 1985 with worn tyres , but reinstated in May 1985 as 97408 to help with Crewe station remodelling programme., Withdrawn for the last time in November 1985 , towed to Carlisle for spares., Taken to Crewe in January 1988 then onwards to Vic Berrys with fellow preserved whistler 40013 , leaving and arriving at Tyseley in September 1988., , 1988
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