No. 68983 was built at Gorton Works and entered service in January 1939 under LNER as No. 608. It was fitted with vacuum brakes. It saw another renumbering change to 68983 in July 1950. There was a shed reallocation to Hornsey (34B) in November 1952 and then a final reallocation to Doncaster (36A) in July 1961.
