5700 Class - L91 - London Transport Maroon Twin Pack Brake rigging chassis Correct-thickness "stamped"

Brake rigging chassis Correct-thickness "stamped" rods Footsteps Wheel "aesthetics"

Sprung buffers & dummy screw link couplers

which it carried to withdrawal in October 1961

Original nose grilles

Mainline Blue Livery

5700 Class - L91 - London Transport Maroon Twin Pack Brake rigging chassis Correct-thickness "stamped"London 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