5700 Class - L91 - London Transport Maroon - DCC Sound Fitted ERA_Preservation Returned to traffic in early

Returned to traffic in early 1993

PowerPack stay-alive system and dual speaker configuration to reproduce the characteristic sound and function of a BR Class 55 at work

it spent periods at Oswestry and Hereford before being withdrawn from Cardiff East Dock after a 16 year working life

completed this process in 2019

5700 Class - L91 - London Transport Maroon - DCC Sound Fitted ERA_Preservation Returned to traffic in earlyLondon 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