Frontline operational histories
Jan 15, 2019
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■ 499
No. 499 (or BR No. 30499) is the oldest of the group’s two S15s, having been one of the first batch of five ordered in January 1916, but not completed at Eastleigh until May 1920.
The 4-6-0 was turned out as No. 499 in London and South Western Railway holly green goods livery and allocated to Nine Elms for heavy goods work. After 20 years, the
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