Completed in 1956, 75078 is one of a class of 80 engines built to a standard British Railways design and is from a batch supplied to the Southern Region. As this region did not have any water troughs it is attached to a tender with larger capacity for water and coal, than others of its class. In addition it is fitted with a double blast pipe and chimney for better power outputs with more economic returns in coal and water consumption.
The loco went new to Exmouth Junction early in 1956 before being transferred to Basingstoke in May of the same year, eventually being withdrawn from Eastleigh shed in July 1966 and sold for scrap to Woodham Bros. of South Wales.
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