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1501 entered service on 31 July 1949<ref name = "BRD">BRDatabase.info</ref> at London’s Old Oak Common, where duties included hauling long rakes of empty coaching stock in and out of Paddington Station. On 30 November 1950<ref name = "BRD" /> the locomotive was reallocated to Southall for local shunting duties.
The BR modernisation programme led to a swift replacement of the 1500 class by 350hp diesel shunters, and 1501 was withdrawn from service at Southall by BR in January 1961<ref name = "BRD" /> after a working life of just 11 years 5 months. Following withdrawal, 1501 was moved to Swindon. Two other class members, '''1502 ''' and '''1509''', were also moved to Swindon after withdrawal from Didcot and Newport respectively, and in February 1961 all three were sold to the National Coal Board<ref name = StockBook/>. <gallery mode=packed heights=200px style="text-align:left">File:Didcot geograph-2565399-by-Ben-Brooksbank.jpg|Classmate 1502 at Didcot in 1957</gallery>
===National Coal Board===
In June 1961 all three locomotives were towed by rail via Bagnalls at Stafford to the Andrew Barclay works at Kilmarnock for repairs and a repaint into unlined maroon livery. Later in the year they returned by road to the colliery at Keresley, Coventry where, still carrying their BR numbers, they worked in the NCB sidings and on the two mile branch line to the Coventry to Nuneaton line at Three Spires Junction. 1969 saw the locomotives once again replaced by diesel shunters, with 1501 the last of the three in use until September of that year.<ref name = StockBook />
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File: S1504_1501_David_Cooke.jpg|1501 at Coventry in 1969 (David Cooke)
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