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Web page: [[File:Standard class 4MT 75069 at Hastings, Ashford 150.jpg|thumb|200px|right|75069 at Hastings circa 1992]]
==75069 in service==
75069 is a BR Standard 4MT 4-6-0 locomotive designed by R.A. Riddles. The Standard 4MT was designed for mixed traffic use on secondary routes where the BR Standard Class 5 and its predecessor, the ‘Black Five’, would be too heavy. However 75069 was one of the final batch allocated to the BR Southern Region, which were built with a larger tender giving greater coal and water capacity but with the same route restrictions as the Standard Class 5.
75069 arrived on the SVR from Barry on 31 March 1973. After a restoration lasting more than 11 years, the locomotive finally entered service in 1984.
While at the SVR, 75069 saw service on the main line as well as the SVR itself. This included attending the Ashford 150 celebrations in 1991/1992.
75069 is currently in the early stages of an overhaul at Bridgnorth Works. It is owned by [[The 75069 Fund]].
