BR Standard Class 4 2-6-4T No 80079.

80079, running into Westcliff-on-sea station with an excursion from London Fenchurch Street to Shoeburyness on the morning of 3 May 1999. Built at Brighton Works in 1954 it worked the LTS line until electrification in 1962. Withdrawn in 1965 and sent to Barry scrapyard until 1971 when it was rescued for restoration on the Severn Valley Railway entering service there in 1977. Photo & scan by Graham Adamson (grahamadamson@lineone.net)