BR Riddles 4MT 75069

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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 After just 11 years in service around London and the South Coast, the locomotive was withdrawn from service at Eastleigh in September 1966.[1]

75069 in preservation

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.

75069 is currently in the early stages of an overhaul at Bridgnorth Works. It is owned by The 75069 Fund.

See also

Steam Locomotives
  1. BRDatabase Retrieved 29 January 2015.