LBSCR Billinton Radial Tank, E4 No.473 "Birch Grove" / B473 / No.32473.

The only surviving locomotive to be designed by Robert Billinton, "Birch Grove" is a Mixed traffic locomotive, they were equally at home on local passenger workings as branch-line goods services. Although almost the oldest, the E4s were amongst the last of the Brighton Radials to survive.

Remarkably "Birch Grove" retains her original boiler, number 891, fitted new in July 1898. It had been passed to various other Brighton tanks of classes D3, E3 and E4 before being refitted to Birch Grove in 1960.

Birch Grove was repainted from LBSCR livery into BR lined black in February 2005, and  subsequently into SR olive green for January 2010.

E4 Birch Grove sitting at Sheffiled Park station. Seen here as No.473 in LBSCR livery.