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BR Riddles 4MT 75069

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Double chimney fitted 1960
'''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 was one of the final batch allocated to the BR Southern Region, which were built with a larger tender giving . This gives greater coal and water capacity , but with restricting the same weight and route restrictions as to that of the Standard Class 5.
75069 was built in 1955 at BR’s Swindon works and entered traffic at Dover. It was fitted with a double chimney at Eastleigh in 1960, returning to traffic at Stewart's Lane.<ref>Heaton, John, 'Oxted Line Steam: 1961', The Railway Magazine, January 2021</ref> After just 11 years in service around London and the South Coast, the locomotive was withdrawn from service at Eastleigh in September 1966.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>
Being a Southern engine 75069 is paired with a BR1B tender. This weighs approximately 49 tons (49.94 t), carrying 4,250 gallons of water and approximately 7 tons of coal.
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