Tonight, another remaster engine, the GWR 57xx!
5741 Duck-as he appears in the RWS.
5786 Buck- Sold to London Transport in 1958, entered preservation in 1969. In the present day Buck is based at the South Devon Railway.
3650 Stephenson Clarke-bought by Stephenson Clarke LTD in 1963, later preserved by a member of the Great Western Society at Didcot.
W30 (9630)- purchased by the Denbigh and Wrexham Railway in 1966.
9610-Preserved by the Kingsbridge Branchline Preservation Society in 1966
L.94 -Sold to London Transport in 1959. Hauled last steam hauled train on the London Underground and was preserved in 1971, she can be found in Tyseley Locomotive Works
7754- Sold to the NCB in 1959, would become the last 5700 in regular non-heritage service by 1975. She was donated into preservation by the NCB, and now lives on the Llangollen Railway.
5741 Duck-as he appears in my AU, at least in later years.
6779- youngest of the class to be withdrawn, 6779 was hidden away by Caomhnóir until they were given a home on the Kingsbridge Branchline Preservation Railway.
5775- Sold to London Transport in 1958, sold into preservation on the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway in 1970. Made famous by her appearance in ‘The Railway Children.’
5700- First of the class, she was saved from her withdrawal in 1956 by the Suddery Railway Museum, which outbid the Krestaen Railway Museum for her.
6771- was purchased from British Railways by the Chester and Holyhead Railway in 1958.