Identical to 41298, this locomotive was one of a further batch of twenty built at Crewe in 1952 to lot No. 225. It was first sent to Brighton in May 1952, but after only one month was re-allocated to Exmouth Junction shed, displacing aged Drummond M7 tanks on local passenger work in the Exeter area. April 1955 saw 41313 moved to Three Bridges MPD on the Brighton main line, but it was there for only a matter of weeks before transfer to Faversham in East Kent.

During November 1959 the engine was taken to Eastleigh Works for a general repair and subsequently it went West again, this time to Barnstaple, where it joined 41298. Duties were light passenger and goods trains. At the beginning of 1963, 41313 returned to Brighton where work included passenger turns to Horsham and Guildford, shunting, parcels trains, and the 'Lancing Belle' workmen's train to Lancing Carriage Works. In May 1964 it was sent to its final BR home, Eastleigh, and was withdrawn in June 1965.

Out of use until its sale to Woodham Brothers in February 1966, 41313 was towed to their scrap-yard in Barry Docks, where it was to stay until purchase by the Ivatt Trust, who brought the locomotive to Quainton in 1975. Initially brought as a source of spares for their other two locomotives, it has now been decided that the engine will eventually be restored to full working order.

The Ivatt Trust has come to a long-term agreement with the Isle of Wight Steam Railway, that will see 41313 and her sister locomotive 41298 restored for use on the Isle of Wight. So, some forty years after an initial plan to introduce BR Standard Class 2MT locomotives to the island, a similar class of locomotive will hopefully shortly be making their mark on the island.