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BR Riddles 4MT 75069

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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 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.
==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 was built in 1955 at BR’s Swindon works and entered traffic at Dover. After just 11 years in service around London and the South Coast, the locomotive was withdrawn from service at Eastleigh in September 1966.<ref>[http://www.brdatabase.info/locoqry.php?action=locodata&type=S&id=75069&loco=75069 BRDatabase] Retrieved 29 January 2015.</ref>

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