5700 Class - 5753 - BR Black Early Emblem - DCC Sound Fitted Locomotive Class_Class 55 (Deltic) being replaced by an LNER

being replaced by an LNER pattern elliptical steel roof and the three bunker rails were filled during October 1928

small SR branding to body corners

Additional Flap Doors on sides

a feature removed from the final I89 order which were fitted with elliptical wooden cab roofs

Built as part of Lot 282

5700 Class - 5753 - BR Black Early Emblem - DCC Sound Fitted Locomotive Class_Class 55 (Deltic) being replaced by an LNERBuilt GWR at Swindon during April 1929. This 5700 was one of 30 locomotives built as part of Lot 238. As with all GWR built 5700s it was fitted with cast iron numberplates that were painted off yellow to represent brass. New to Old Oak Common it would soon transfer to Southall where it would spend the rest of its working life until withdrawal on the 14th of September 1959. Some say that after withdrawal, 5753 went on to work on an Island just off the