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L49 was at the western end of an engineering train sat in Upminster Station during the open day at the depot on Saturday 29th August. As will be seen, this carries the blue livery. I noticed that all the locos had an alternative fleetnumber, low on the bodysides just inboard of each cab door (73049 in this case). At first I thought these might be TOPS numbers for use when working on Network Rail track. However, the various ranges seen (eg 64029 on L29) suggested otherwise. It would appear that they are based on the year of ordering. For example, L49 was delivered in 1974 so could have been ordered in 1973 (73). Likewise, L29 was delivered in 1965.
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Photo ID: 2787
Photo date: 29/08/2009 Size: Regular. An extra large copy of this photo is available.
Subject/s: L49
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Date added: 05/09/2009
Note added Tue 08/09/2009 by Kevin Bullions

The (in this case) 73 refers to the year of build (1973) and 49 is the loco number, I'll get back to you to confirm the meaning of the middle number.