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7754 -was built by the North British Locomotive Company of Glasgow for the Great Western Railway as works number 24042 being completed in December 1930 at an approximate cost of two thousand eigth hundred pounds.
Beyer-Peacock (BP 7756/1956) built South African Railways (Cape Gauge) Class GMA/M 4-8-2+2-8-4 "Garratt" No 4090 rounding the horseshoe curve at Swartvark on the northbound climb up Lootsberg Pass with a heavy passenger train - c.1976
Great Western Railway 57xx class 0-6-0PT No 7758 Outside one of Tyseley's roundhouses on 21st June 1931. No 7758 was built in December 1930 at a cost of £2,800 by the North British Locomotive Company as part of lot 274.
The North British works plate can be seen on the leading wheel splasher.
This was the fourth batch of twenty-five locomotives built by this company, which together with the previous batches (built on lots 256 and 264) made a total of one hundred pannier tank locomotives.
Ex-LNWR 2F 0-6-2T No 7759, a Monument Lane locomotive, is seen shunting stock at the East end of the station during the demolition of the war-damaged great roof circa 1946. Above is the temporary elevated decking used to dismantle the roof whilst to the right are the new canopies being built which were to be temporary structures but which which lasted for nearly twenty years until the rebuilding of the station in the 1960s. Built as LNWR No 417 by Crewe works in December 1886 No 7759 remained in service until October 1950 when it was withdrawn from Abergavenny shed having never carried its allocated British Railways running number, No 58916.
Pannier twins 7752 and 7760 were built within the same Lot number by the North British Locomotive Works in 1930.
7752 was shedded at Tondu and 7760 at Oxford, working the Morris Cowley branch.
Both ended their commercial working lives working for London Transport. 7752 ran the last official LT steam train but 7760 was the last loco in steam finalising the shunting on the same day in 1971.
