please log in to view this image please log in to view this image 7279 was produced by the Vulcan Foundry at their Newton-le-Willows site in Lancashire in 1924 and was originally numbered 7119. It spent its early years shunting the vast marshalling yards at Toton in Nottinghamshire before being transferred to Nottingham Depot in 1934 when it was renumbered 7279 by the LMS. Following nationalisation of the railways and the forming of BR in 1948 the engine was renumbered 47279. 47279 was withdrawn from Sutton Oak in 1967 and sold to the Woodham Bros. scrap-yard in South Wales. After languishing in South Wales for 12 years, the engine was purchased by the 3F Trust for use on the KWVR, arriving on the Railway in August 1979, bereft, after so many years, of many parts including a chimney. A suitable chimney turned up stored (for eventual use as a flowerpot) in an outside lavatory.
