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Record: 10235 (26/09/2023)
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Numbers Carried
Company Number Date From
London and North Eastern Railway (1924) 8574 m/e 01/1924
London and North Eastern Railway (1942) 7488 m/e 01/1943
London and North Eastern Railway (1946) 1574 m/e 11/1946
British Railways 61574 m/e 03/1948

Locomotive Specifics
Designer S. Holden
Class B12
Company History GER/LNER
Wheels 4-6-0
Builder Beyer Peacock Ltd.
Order Number 1513
Works Number 6490
To Service During 08/1928
Withdrawal Tue 01/01/1957
Service Life 28 yrs, 5 mths , 1 dy
Information Vacuum ejector and Lentz valve gear fitted from new

Disposal
Scrapping During 02/1957

Allocations
Code Subsequent Codes Name From Date
    (New) m/e 08/1928
STR   Stratford on 01/01/1948 (Snapshot)
35B   Grantham 4w/e 14/02/1953
     Withdrawn on 01/01/1957

SLS Allocations*
Type Code Name From Date
ALLOC 35A New England 4w/e 21/02/1953
WDN   on 01/01/1957

* Stephenson Locomotive Society data - raw and not yet cross-referenced

Mentions ...
Report Date Title Report Source
31/03/1948 Stratford Works The following withdrawn locomotives (all marked 'Darlington') were in the fields behind the new Works: Nos. 5383, 7120/37, 7511/12; with the exception of No. 7137, the rest had gone on 3/4, presumably to Darlington. Nos. 5399, 5410/18, 7130/32 an 8213 (all withdrawn) which were formerly in the fields are now dumped on the road next to the stripping shop. Nos. 7131/35 were being cut up in the Paint Shop. The following W.D. 2-8-0's were newly painted and had been through shops recently:-Nos. 70867/874, 78580, 78605/675, 79205/233. By the type of lettering some appeared to have been dealt with in Belgium. Nos. 1530, 1639, 1766, 4773 an 9652 had been newly painted, prefixed 'E' and lettered 'British Railways,' while those noted renumbered (60000 added) were:-Nos. 1574, 7202, 9639 an 9659. SLS/194805

Summary
Date Event Details Source See Also
01/1924 Renumbered Renumbered to 8574    
01/1943 Renumbered Renumbered to 7488    
11/1946 Renumbered Renumbered to 1574    
01/01/1948 Allocation Allocation Snapshot - Stratford (STR)    
03/1948 Renumbered Renumbered to 61574    
14/02/1953 Allocation Reallocated to Grantham (35B)    
01/01/1957 Withdrawn Condemned as 61574    
02/1957 Scrapped Scrapped