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80079 was built in 1954 at 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 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 Tilbury, before moving to the Croes Newydd shed, Wrexham in July 1962. 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 The locomotive was withdrawn from there Croes Newydd in July 1965 and taken to [[Barry Scrapyard]], arriving in January 1966.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>
==80079 in preservation==
