5700 Class - 7774 - BR Black Later Crest - DCC Sound Fitted Bauxite Thus we'd be remiss in

Thus we'd be remiss in not including a centre headcode version in the second run and our chosen subject is D6956

the increasingly unreliable Hunslets—despite sharing an engine and many mechanical and electrical components with the BR Class 20s—were replaced in 1980 with General Motors 111 Class locomotives

When demobbed

it was not initially fitted with auto-couplers or mirrors

5700 Class - 7774 - BR Black Later Crest - DCC Sound Fitted Bauxite Thus we'd be remiss in7774 was the last of the 5700 panniers built by the North British Locomotive Company. The locomotive, works number 24062, was completed March 1931 and sent to Aberbeeg Shed. It would remain a South Wales engine for its entire working life, except for trips to Swindon for works visits. It would enjoy stays at Newport Pill, Tredegar (86H), Aberbeeg (86K) and Ebbw Junction (86A) before final withdrawal in November 1959