5700 Class - 7774 - BR Black Later Crest - DCC Sound Fitted Bauxite Intended to serve both Aylesbury

Intended to serve both Aylesbury and Chesham

This model is: MCW Metrorider

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

typically with a single Hunslet operating in push-pull mode

5700 Class - 7774 - BR Black Later Crest - DCC Sound Fitted Bauxite Intended to serve both Aylesbury7774 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