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Like Thompson at the LNER, on assuming office in 1941 Hawksworth was thwarted in producing a brand new Pacific of his own design by the war - instead a new 4-6-0, approved for design after the war, was used to test ideas which he hoped to incorporate into an express locomotive later. In the end "later" never came, the world was deprived of a Hawksworth Pacific.

What appears to be a stalled restoration project, with evidence of having been steamed in the past - the chassis runs on air in both directions.

The boiler is made to a pedestrian standard, with several stays leaking on the outer wrapper and another leak on the right hand side firebox tubeplate to inner firebox seam.

There are five superheater flues although no elements fitted, the wet header is connected direct to the cylinders