Ordered 22nd May 1933, for the Staveley Coal and Iron Ltd for use at their Lamport Calcine Sidings, Hanging Houghton, Northants, where she worked all her working life until Spetember 1969.  She bore the name Lamport No. 3 for most of this time.  Plant number 8310/19 was allocated in April 1966 until she was sold privately in Spetember 1969. Robert arrived at Quainton March 1970 after storage at the LRPS London Road Garage.

Robert left Quainton for the Foxfield Light Railway, Dilhorne, Staffordshire, in October 1971, before moving to the Peak Railway and the Midland Railway, where she gained the number 8 and the name Robert. Sold to the Dockland Development Corporation in late 1993 for the Kew Bridge Steam Museum. Robert was then plinthed for several years at the Windsor Terrace entrance to Beckton Gasworks.  Ownership passed to Newham B.C. when the D.C.C. was disbanded in early 1999.  When building work started in the area, it was moved to a plinth in front of the Stratford, East London, station complex, on the Great Eastern Road and Meridian Square, after renovation by the Kew Bridge Steam Museum in 2000. It is painted red, similar to the original Beckton Gasworks locomotives.

On 9th March 2008 it was then temporarily moved to the East Anglian Railway Museum at Chappel and Wakes Colne in Suffolk whilst work is carried out around Strattford station in preparation for the Olympics in 2012. It intended that it will then be moved back to the Stratford Station area.

Reference: Avonside Engine 2068 Robert 1933 - Colin Alliez / Alan Sturrock - Quainton News No. 100 October 2008