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5786 (L92) was at Chinnor from Mar to Oct 2016
5786 (L92)
Our Locomotive for the 2016 main season was 5786 from the South Devon Railway where she is based. She is owned by the Worcester Locomotive Society, and following her overhaul in 2012, is now painted in London Underground colours and carries the number L92.
5786 is one of the original 57xx Class Pannier tanks designed by C B Collett, and was built at Swindon Works in 1930, as part of Lot 260. She was initially shedded at Aberdare, and by 1948 was at Aberbeeg, and then Cardiff Canton (86C) from 1952 to 1958. Withdrawn from BR service in April 1958, she was sold to London Transport, painted maroon, and numbered L92. She was then based at Lillie Bridge and Neasden depots, where she worked maintenance and rubbish trains until withdrawn from LT service in 1969.
Bought by the Worcester Locomotive
Society in September 1969, 5786 was moved to the Severn Valley Railway
where she was restored to GWR livery and steamed for a short period. In
1970 she was at the Bulmer Railway Centre in Herefordshire where she was
in regular use until that Centre closed in 1993. She then moved to her
new base at the South Devon Railway in Buckfastleigh. 5786 has spent 47
years in preservation, longer than her working life which spanned 39
years!
She arrived at Chinnor on 1 March 2016 and departed soon after the Railway closed on 30 October 2016.
- Builder
- GWR
- Class/type
- 57xx
- Built year
- 1930
- Engine output
- Power Class GWR – C, BR – 4F
- Engine type
- Valve Gear - Stephenson Slide Valve. Working Pressure - 200 psi. Firegrate Area - 15.3 sq ft. Fire tubes - 233 x 1 5/8”
- Fuel tank capacity
- Coal Capacity - 3 tons 6 cwt. Water Capacity - 1,200 gallons
- Status
- Returned to the SDR in early Nov 2016
- Tractive effort
- 22,515 lb
- Transmission
- Cylinders - 17 1/2” x 24”
- Weight
- 49 tons
- Wheel arrangement
- 0-6-0
- Wheel diameter
- 4’ 7 ½”
- Wheels
- 0-6-0PT