No.48 was built to 36 inch gauge, and was supplied new to the London & North Eastern Railway (LNER) for work at their Lowestoft sleeper depot. This works had an extensive 36 inch gauge railway serving a sleeper creosote plant. The depot closed in May 1964, and by September of that year, the loco had moved to a dealers, A.King & Son of Norwich. They subsequently sold the loco on to the Lynlite Concrete Company, based at Ramsey, Cambrideshire. It was used on a line serving an autoclave used in the production process. Although the railway ceased to be used some time around 1974, the loco remained on site until early in 1989, when it was moved to J&K Harris, a scrap metal dealer in the town of March. The enthusiast world had effectively “lost” this loco after it departed Lowestoft until re-discovered in the yard in March. The late Andrew Wilson bought the locomotive and moved it to his house in Leeds, where it remained in store until his sad death in 2020. The loco arrived at Apedale on 24 August 2020. It is the only ex-mainline railway company locomotive on site, and the only surviving ex-LNER diesel locomotive.
