No 21C110, Sidmouth, was built at Brighton Works by the Southern Railway in September 1945 and, following trials and testing on local duties around Brighton, the locomotive was allocated to Exmouth Junction shed in December of that year. Its duties at Exmouth Junction would have seen it operating over the Southern's North Devon and Cornwall routes as well as the the main line to Salisbury.
Sidmouth passing Eastleigh at speed with a Weymouth Express
Sidmouth was renumbered 34010 in the B.R. numbering scheme in January 1950. In June, 1951, it was transferred to Nine Elms for service over the routes from Waterloo to Bournemouth and Exeter. The locomotive was rebuilt in February 1959 and remained a Nine Elms engine until September 1964 when it was transferred to Eastleigh.
Sidmouth at Nine Elms
The locomotive was withdrawn in March 1965 and send to Barry Scrapyard to await its fate.
Sidmouth was purchased privately from Barry in 1982 and taken to the North York Moors Railway to await restoration.
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