5700 Class - 7754 - NCB Green - DCC Sound Fitted Livery_Intercity Executive

5700 Class - 7754 - NCB Green - DCC Sound Fitted Livery_Intercity Executive7754. NCB Green Livery Another product of the North British Locomotive Company was 7754. Outshopped in 1930 it was allocated to Reading where it would be seen working all manner of trains. Following periods at Old Oak Common and Wellington it was withdrawn from service in 1959. Purchased by the NCB for use in South Wales, it went first to Talywain Colliery before being transferred to the new Mountain Ash system where it worked until 1975. Despite

and – for those machines that previously wore Compass branding – the plated central window on both sides of the body

4mm back to backs and 26mm over pinpoints

pick up from one bogie and a reed switch to control on/off via a magnetic wand

by which point half the sub class were south of the border

Representing the classic mid 1960s era of English Electric’s finest is D9018 in two-tone green with small yellow panel

in three body styles

One of 250 near identical locomotives

83mm Gauge

with supplies of pulpwood coming from Canada and Scandinavia

BR green with wrap-around yellow nose panels

55017 – ‘The Durham Light Infantry’

the locomotive was the first diesel to be used at the site and remained there until the end of coal carbonisation in March 1972