27001 & 27005 pass Kinneil on 3 September 2000 with the 2T44 12:45 Birkhill to Bo'ness service, during the Bo'ness & Kinneil Railway's Diesel Gala. These are the two oldest surviving Class 27s, entering service in June and August 1961, as D5347 & D5351. Both were withdrawn in July 1987. 27001 was initially preserved at the Caledonian Railway at Brechin, moving to join 27005 at Bo'ness in 1991.