78059

78059 was built at Darlington in September 1956.

Motive power depot allocations.

Date Arrived	Depot
September 1956	Chester Northgate
April 1959	Llandudno Junction
November 1959	Bangor
April 1964	Holyhead
October 1964	Bangor
June 1965	Willesden
October 1966	Nuneaton
May 1966	Stoke
October 1966	Crewe South

I am indebted to Mel Gun for the picture taken in 1966 and the extract from the article below. His father was third photographed third from the left amongst staff at Nuneaton.

Withdrawn in November 1966 after a working life of just over ten years. It was sold for scrap to the Barry scrapyard of Woodham Brothers where it arrived in June 1967.

It remained at Barry until May 1983 following its purchase by members of the Bluebell Railway Trust with the intention of converting 78059 to a tank engine version as 84030. The logic being that there are no tank engine versions of the 2MT class locomotive preserved.

78059 was one of many locomotives from purchased from Barry without a tender as the tender had been sold by Woodham Brothers to Duport Steelworks at Briton Ferry where it was used to carry heavy ingots of scrap steel. Tenders such as this were shorn of their bodies and finally met their end in Duport’s own furnaces.

Home Base	Current Status	Owner
Bluebell Railway	Being used to build 84030	Bluebell Railway

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