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I don't know if it caught fire Trev but it would seem the loco was plagued with gearbox problems. This is a bit I dug up on the Paxman site.
Alan Locojoe
The failure had relatively small beginnings. The gearbox suffered the failure of a bolt in its upper part. I cannot recall whether this was attributable to faulty design, materials or workmanship but the main point was that the broken bits passed all the way down through the gear train and rendered most of the gear wheels unfit for further service. The locomotive was returned to BR's workshop where it was built and stripped for investigation but that was effectively the end of the project
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