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Steam Locomotive # 5539 was built at Swindon in 1928 and allocated to Cheltenham in July of that year although was Bristol Bath Road engine in 1947 and withdrawn from the Cornish shed at St Blazey in April 1962.
 
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-At the end of the 19th century, 4-4-0 steam locomotives could be seen pulling passenger trains in several countries, including Japan where the most common ones were built in the UK by Beyer Peacock and other companies.
Beyer Peacock 3911 (1897) was initially acquired by the Nippon Railway (1067 mm gauge) where she worked as Pbt 2/4 II № 175 until the nationalization of the company and its main line from Tokyo to the northeast in 1906.
She was redesignated Japanese Government Railways № 5540, receiving automatic couplers and air brakes in JGR service, and kept her number after World War II and the establishment of Japanese National Railways (JNR).
She was retired in 1962 and moved to Ōme Railway Park in Tokyo where she remains displayed, and after the relocation of № 110 to Yokohama holds the title of the oldest locomotive at the museum.
Meanwhile, several of her sisters and cousins are preserved in various other countries.
 
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Steam Locomotive 5541 is a 4575 class small Praire tank engine built in 1928 by the Great Western Railway at Swindon works. The 4575 class were a popular engine on the GWR, they were versatile and well liked by crew. They were an improved version of the 45xx class engines, the main modification being the larger, sloped tanks and cast motion brackets.
 
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5542 was built at Swindon in 1928 at a cost of £3,602 and allocated to Gloucester Horton Road.
Over the next 33 years it spent time at Bristol, Taunton (where it spent most time), Newton Abbot and Westbury where it spent the last two years of its service before being withdrawn in 1961 having run for 987,429 miles.
During its working life it had used 6 boilers of which the last was built in 1943 and had previously been used on 4558, 5551 and 5501 before being fitted to 5542 in 1958 during a heavy overhaul.

Whilst at Taunton 5542 worked all four branches that once radiated from there.
It had a tablet exchange apparatus fitted which allowed for faster trains on longer branches, particularly useful on the Yeovil, Barnstaple and Minehead branches.
 
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As the next to last T1 built from the original order of fifty, #5548 is the penultimate T1 built in the batch of 25 at Baldwin Works in 1946.
These massive and sometimes complicated locomotives spent their time hauling the Pennsylvania Railroad's luxury expresses, such as "the Trailblazer," "the Broadway Limited," etc.
However, as was the case with 5548 and her sisters' bigger preceding sister, 6100 the S1, wheel slippage in starting off and (sometimes) at full speed was a serious and terrifying problem
 
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Pennsylvania Railroad 5550 (PRR 5550) is a mainline duplex drivesteam locomotive under construction in the United States.
With an estimated completion by 2030, the locomotive will become the 53rd example of the Pennsylvania Railroad's T1 steam locomotive class and the only operational locomotive of its type
The estimated cost of PRR 5550 was originally $10 million, but an updated projected cost of $7 million was released with the acquisition of an existing long-haul tender from the Western New York Railway Historical Society in August 2017.
Construction began in 2014 with the casting of the locomotive's keystone-shaped number plate.
Major components, including two Boxpok drivers, the prow, the cab, third-course boiler, and fire door have been completed.
 
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The LMS Patriot Project has sent RailAdvent a further update on the progress being made on steam locomotive 5551 The Unknown Warrior.
Progress has continued in a number of areas, with work starting on the new fittings for the cylinder covers.
Discussions have continued with Riley and Son over the wheelset reassembly after weld repairs were completed.

Due to the Coronavirus pandemic, delivery of the axle material for the second wheelset has been delayed coming from South Africa.

Heritage Boiler Steam Services has continued to tool stays on the boiler for the locomotive.
 
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5552 at Bodmin General on the Bodmin & Wenford Railway – May 1987

5552 was withdrawn in October 1960 from Truro depot by which time it 5552 had covered 900,000 miles.

It was bought from Woodham Brothers scrapyard in 1986 and taken to Bodmin.
After extensive restoration, which included manufacture of many replacement parts, 5552 entered service on the Bodwin Wenford Railway in 2003 and has been a regular performer since.

In late 2012 it was withdrawn for its ten year overhaul.

In early December 2018 the Bodmin & Wenford Railway reported that the wheels had been placed back in the frames and tubes were being fitted into the boiler.

In November 2020 it was reported that it was hoped to have the locomotive in service late in 2021.

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GWR 5553 - Minehead West Somerset Railway.
Built in 1928, scrapped in 1962 and spent 28 years rotting in Barry scrapyard until it was rescued in 1990. What was left of 5553 in Barry scrapyard was privately purchased in 1990 and restored to full working order at a site in Birmingham. Here seen on loan to the the West Somerset Railway at the October 2005 gala event.
 
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