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}}'''80079 ''' is a '''BR Standard Class 4 2-6-4T ''' tank engine designed by R.A. Riddles. The Class 4 tank engine was derived from the ex-LMS Fairburn 2-6-4T, and was used mainly on commuter and outer suburban services. A total of 155 were built, of which 15 have survived into preservation.

80079 was built in 1954 at BR’s BR's Brighton works and entered service at Plaistow in March of that year, before moving to Tilbury a month later.<ref name="BRDatabase">[http://www.brdatabase.info/locoqry.php?action=locodata&type=S&id=80079&loco=80079 BRDatabase] Retrieved 29 January 2015.</ref> From there, 80079 mainly worked passenger services between London Fenchurch Street and Tilbury, Southend and Shoeburyness.<ref name=StockBook>SVR Stock book 9th edition</ref> While hauling a passenger train on 30 January 1958, 80079 overran signals in thick fog and was in a rear-end collision with another passenger train at Dagenham, Essex. Ten people were killed and 89 were injured.<ref>Red for Danger. Rolt, L.T.C. (1955, rev. 1966)</ref><ref>[http://www.railwaysarchive.co.uk/documents/MoT_Dagenham1958.pdf Ministry of Transport Accident report]</ref>

After repair, 80079 continued in service at Tilburyuntil rendered redundant by electrification of those lines. A number of the 2-6-4T class were then transferred to the Western Region, before with 80079 moving to the Croes Newydd shed, Wrexham in July 1962, from where it would regularly have worked services to Shrewsbury. John Stretton captions an image of 80079 emerging from [[Bridgnorth Tunnel]] on 30 August 1962 on the 7.27p.m. Bridgnorth to [[Shrewsbury]], a rarity of a now SVR-based loco that ran on the branch in service.<ref>[[Bibliography#Books|Stretton (2010)]] p. 90</ref> The locomotive was withdrawn from there Croes Newydd in July 1965 and taken to [[Barry Scrapyard]], arriving in January 1966.<ref name="BRDatabase" /><ref name="BarryList"> Beckett and Hardingham (2010), The Barry List 10th Edition</ref>