GWR Pannier 5764

5764 was built at Swindon and entered service in 1929 at London’s Old Oak Common depot. It remained at that depot post-War, serving the GWR and BR for more than thirty years. Duties involved local freight and shunting in the West London area as well as ECS working in and out of Paddington station.


Following a heavy overhaul at the Wolverhampton Stafford Road works in February 1960, the locomotive returned to London but was then withdrawn by BR in May 1960 having run an estimated 520,259 miles in service.
BR sold a number of pannier tanks, including 5764, to London Transport who used them mainly to run PW and engineering trains on their Metropolitan Lines, operating from their Neasden Depot and also from Lillie Bridge, Kensington. While with London Underground, 5764 was allocated the number L95. By the end of 1963, recorded mileage had increased to 668,771