The Waterloo & City line was operated as part of the BR Southern Region.

In 1986, the line came under the ownership of Network SouthEast, and their blue, red and white livery was applied.

They did not feature the normal yellow ends because the route they operated was entirely in tunnels where the darkness would render them pointless and the line did not integrate at all with the rest of the network.

The final Class 487 vehicles were taken by road to Glasgow for scrap, which was their single longest journey above ground.

This vehicle has had a major internal and external restoration by the London Transport Museum to have it in the condition it was on the day it left service in 1993.