5700 Class - L91 - London Transport Maroon - DCC Sound Fitted ERA_Preservation completed this process in 2019

completed this process in 2019

Kinetic NEM coupler mounts on tender at correct height with mini-tension-lock couplers

Withdrawn in 1959 it was purchased by the NCB and was sent to work at Penallta Colliery in South Wales

EWS offered several locomotives for sale and 66250 was quired by GBRF in 2017 and was allocated the new number 66789

the gas axe finally caught up with it during the mass clearout of the remaining vehicles from the latter location

5700 Class - L91 - London Transport Maroon - DCC Sound Fitted ERA_Preservation completed this process in 2019London Transports railway network is well known for being electrified and underground but there had always been a small fleet of steam locomotives retained for working infrastructure trains on the surface lines. By the 1950s, these older locomotives were well past their prime and London Transport began to look for replacements. Diesel locomotives were considered, as was a small fleet of ex GNR J52 steam locomotives but their trial was unsuccessful. In