8750 Class - 8763 - Early Emblem Lined Black8763. British Railways Lined black livery, with Early Emblem This locomotive was built at Swindon in 1933 and allocated to Old Oak Common where it spent its entire working life. By the early 1950s many panniers were fitted with top feed boilers. In contrast to the more common plain black livery, 8763 was treated to full mixed traffic lining as its duties included working empty coaching stock in and out of London Paddington. It was withdrawn in 1962.

though pipes

- Two ex-NER P1 style Chaldrons and an early Shildon built Chaldron

Distinctive underframe-mounted radar kit and roof antenna cutouts

DCC Features

being the world’s first complete railway system that only utilised steam locomotives

end brake rigging and very fine brake chain

Close coupled gangways

the solution came in recently withdrawn ex GWR 57xx pannier tanks

Sixteen spoke

D9010 – ‘The King’s Own Scottish Borderer’

Another non-boiler loco

The horn grille was also mounted almost flush with the body