Over the winter the tender right hand leading axlebox was re-metalled after it ran hot undetected, probably during the 2015 Santa running.

In March there was another failure of the piston rings and snap rings. The valve cover bushes were re-metalled and machined, while new valve rings and new piston rings were fitted.

During the early parts of the year the suspension compensation pivot pins were replaced. This initially seemed surprising, but turned out to be at a similar mileage to the previous replacement, carried out at the main overhaul in 2011, after 41,000 miles.

On Wednesday 30th March 2857 left Bridgnorth with the tender handbrake inadvertently left hard on, only detected at the top of Eardington bank when she would hardly roll down the other side. Subsequent inspection showed that brake block material had fused to four tender wheels. It was carefully ground off by hand, with no long term damage.

Other than that 2857 continues to perform well on the SVR.