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Numbers Carried
Company Number Date From
War Dept. 7468 m/e 01/1944
War Dept. 77468 m/e 01/1945
British Railways 90612 m/e 09/1951

Locomotive Specifics
Class WD/8
Company History WD
Wheels 2-8-0
Builder Vulcan Foundry
Order Number 2292
Works Number 4984
To Service During 01/1944
Withdrawal Sun 01/03/1964
Service Life 20 yrs, 2 mths , -1 dys

Disposal
Scrapping During 08/1964 at T W Ward (Killamarsh)

Allocations
Code Subsequent Codes Name From Date
    (New) m/e 01/1944
HLS   Hull Springhead w/e 15/05/1948
MEX   Mexborough w/e 04/09/1948
     Withdrawn on 01/03/1964

SLS Allocations*
Type Code Name From Date
STOCK ANN Annesley on 11/02/1947
ALLOC BRN Barnsley on 27/04/1947
ALLOC NEV Neville Hill on 05/10/1947
ALLOC HLS Hull Springhead w/e 15/05/1948
ALLOC MEX Mexborough w/e 04/09/1948
WDN   on 01/03/1964

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

Mentions ...
Report Date Title Report Source
30/11/1945 Austerities It is reported that 500 Austerity 2-8-0 locomotives are to be returned from the Continent and put into traffic on the British Railways, and it will be seen from the L.N.E.R notes, that some have arrived already. Those sent to March arrived with their packing in position and did not apear to have been in traffic overseas. It is believed that considerable dumps of these engines exist in this state and it is not impossible that the whole 500 have been surplus in this manner. We understand that the L.N.E.R. will receive 120 of them.
280 locos. of this class have been sold to the Netherlands State Railways. Belgium: Locomotives are allocated as follows: Merelbeke: 70877, 77079, 77178, 77289, 77381/8, 77292, 77468, 78528/77/84, 79222/30(Merelbeke). Ostend: 70864, 77278/8314, 78519/27/60/1/4/89(Ostend). Tournai: 77095, 77285, 77447, 79211(Tournai). Louven: 70823(Louven). Brussells (Midi): 70865(Brussels Midi). Ghent Zee-Haven: 75002/3/82, 75136(Ghent Zee-Haven). Schaerbeck: 71491, 75055(Schaerbeck). Stored at Ostend (6/45): 70865. 77021/31/7/69/82, 77117/51/4/6/75/83/9/91, 77236, 77344, 78527/64/89, 78619, 79238/46/51. The last-mentioned six are N.B. 25325/50/80 and V.F. 5181/9/94, all 1944.
SLS/194602

Summary
Date Event Details Source See Also
01/1944 To Service To service as WD Number 7468
Built at Vulcan Foundry, Works Number 4984
   
01/1945 Renumbered Renumbered to 77468    
15/05/1948 Allocation Reallocated to Hull Springhead (HLS)    
04/09/1948 Allocation Reallocated to Mexborough (MEX)    
09/1951 Renumbered Renumbered to 90612    
01/03/1964 Withdrawn Condemned as 90612    
08/1964 Scrapped Broken up by T W Ward: Killamarsh    

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