No. 4920 Dumbleton Hall at Buckfastleigh on the South Devon Railway on July 17, 2017. It has since been repainted into red livery at WCR in Carnforth before leaving for the Far East.
MATT BUCK
GWR 4-6-0 No. 4920 Dumbleton Hall has been exported to Japan, The RM can confirm.
The 1929-built Collett ‘Hall’ is to be among the exhibits in the new Warner Bros Studio Tour Tokyo – The Making of Harry Potter, which is due to open in Toshimaen in 2023.
No. 4920, which last ran on October 31, 1999, was sold by Dumbleton Hall Preservation Society and South Devon Railway Trust in December 2020. At the time, the identity of the buyer was not publicly disclosed – but it was confirmed that the loco had been sold for a six-figure sum. It later emerged that the loco had departed for West Coast Railways (WCR) at Carnforth, the move being undertaken on February 25, 2021.