5700 Class - 7754 - NCB Green - DCC Sound Fitted Livery_Intercity Executive and – for those machines

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

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

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

in three body styles

with supplies of pulpwood coming from Canada and Scandinavia

5700 Class - 7754 - NCB Green - DCC Sound Fitted Livery_Intercity Executive and – for those machines7754. 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 Following periods at Old Oak Common and Wellington it was withdrawn from service in 1959.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