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Numbers Carried
Company Number Date From
Southern Railway (1931) 718 m/e 09/1899
British Railways 30718 m/e 05/1948

Locomotive Specifics
Designer D. Drummond
Class Greyhounds
Company History LSWR/SR
Wheels 4-4-0
Builder Dübs & Co
To Service During 09/1899
Withdrawal During 03/1961
Service Life 61 yrs, 5 mths , 28 dys

Disposal
Scrapping During 04/1961

Allocations
Code Subsequent Codes Name From Date
    (New) m/e 09/1899
9E   Nine Elms on 01/01/1948 (Snapshot)
9E   Nine Elms 3w/e 28/05/1949
70A   Nine Elms 8w/e 05/02/1951
72A   Exmouth Junction 6w/e 14/06/1959
     Withdrawn m/e 03/1961

SLS Allocations*
Type Code Name From Date
ALLOC NINEELMS Nine Elms 3w/e 28/05/1949
REINS 70A Nine Elms m/e 31/08/1950
ALLOC 70A Nine Elms 8w/e 05/02/1951
ALLOC 72A Exmouth Junction P 14/06/1959
WDN   w/e 01/04/1961

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

Mentions ...
Report Date Title Report Source
06/10/1951 Southern Notes The solitary saddle tank, S.R. 1685 has also gone. This was converted from' 'C'. 0-6-0 No. 685 in 1917, and was for a long while stationed at Bricklayers' Arms, until it was moved to East Kent, and, temporarily, to St. Leonards, where water cranes would not reach high enough to fill her tanks. The once-famous 'I3' Marsh 4-4-2 express tanks are almost extinct; the only one left in stock being No. 32091. No. 32086, although officially withdrawn on 6th October, was still running on the 17th.
'T9' Drummond 4-4-0, No. 30718 was recently on a milk train at East Croydon, a duty generally worked by an 'H' tank.
Officially described as for L.M.R. stock, the 2-6-6-2 diesel-electric express locomotive, No. 10202, recently completed and tried out at Ashford, commenced a spell of Waterloo-Exeter ordinary express running on 15th October. The 10 standard 2-6-4Ts, numbered 80010-19 have been completed at Brighton, and most of them are working from Tunbridge Wells, which, it is understood, will be the allocation of all. Three of the L.M.S. type have gone from Tunbridge Wells to Exeter S.R. area and others have been reallocated on the Eastern Section.
New light 2-6-2Ts of the Crewe-built series, numbered 41290 upwards, have arrived on the Central Section and have been seen on empty carriage duties at London termini. Some further standard 2-6-4Ts, now building. at Brighton, will eventually, be fitted with water scoops, and some with tablet-catchers, for the L.M.R. or Scottish Regions. No. 80020/1, just out, will have catchers fitted in Scotland.
Class 7 standard 4-6,2, 70004, which had taken up regular working of the 'Golden Arrow' between Victoria and Dover, after exhibition at the Festival of Britain, sustained a broken connecting rod while hauling the up 'Golden Arrow' on Sunday, 21st October, and came to stop at Headcorn with motion seized. William Shakespeare was immovable until fitters arrived, so that delay was considerable: she is now at Ashford waiting parts from Crewe.
SLS/195112

Summary
Date Event Details Source See Also
09/1899 To Service To service as Southern Railway Number 718
Built at Dübs & Co
   
01/01/1948 Allocation Allocation Snapshot - Nine Elms (9E)    
05/1948 Renumbered Renumbered to 30718    
28/05/1949 Allocation Reallocated to Nine Elms (9E)    
05/02/1951 Allocation Reallocated to Nine Elms (70A)    
14/06/1959 Allocation Reallocated to Exmouth Junction (72A)    
03/1961 Withdrawn Condemned as 30718    
04/1961 Scrapped Scrapped    

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