[2] In June 1946 the SLNCR ordered just one new locomotive from Beyer, Peacock & Company[1] at Gorton Foundry, Manchester, England.

[3] Beyer, Peacock & Company completed both locomotives ready for delivery in spring 1949[1] but by then the SLNCR could not afford to pay for them.

[1] Protracted negotiations between the SLNCR, Ministry of Commerce and Beyer, Peacock eventually resulted in a hire purchase agreement in 1951, and the two locomotives were shipped from England to Belfast in June and July of that year.

On Monday 30 September 1957 Lough Melvin hauled the company's last service, a mixed train from Eniskillen to Sligo.

(a) : Beyer, Peacock & Company works numbers 7136/7/8 were originally allocated to three War Department Garratt locomotives.

For a short while the UTA allocated both locomotives to Adelaide shed for service as shunters on the quays and Grosvenor Road goods yard.

[8] The Railway Preservation Society of Ireland bought Lough Erne and used it to shunt its yard at Whitehead until its boiler failed in 1972.