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A Railwayman's View - BR Midland Region by Peter Collins > Lancashire > LPPC DSL BW 0676
LPPC DSL BW 0676 Blackpool – where else? – on a cool evening in late September. We had arrived earlier in the day behind an English Electric Type 4 Class 40 and hoped we would enjoy the same on our journey back south but having arrived at the station after a convivial afternoon/evening ‘on the town’ this is what we found making up the last though service to Crewe; nothing more than a rather run-down Met Cam DMU and at 23 00 at night. Amazingly the driver left the cab blind on the second man’s side open so we bounced and lurched our way up the West Coast main line with a fascinating and completely different view from usual. Small compensation!
LPPC DSL BW 0676 Blackpool – where else? – on a cool evening in late September. We had arrived earlier in the day behind an English Electric Type 4 Class 40 and hoped we would enjoy the same on our journey back south but having arrived at the station after a convivial afternoon/evening ‘on the town’ this is what we found making up the last though service to Crewe; nothing more than a rather run-down Met Cam DMU and at 23 00 at night. Amazingly the driver left the cab blind on the second man’s side open so we bounced and lurched our way up the West Coast main line with a fascinating and completely different view from usual. Small compensation!
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Blackpool – where else? – on a cool evening in

late September. We had arrived earlier in the day behind an English Electric Type 4 Class 40 and hoped we would enjoy the same on our journey back south but having arrived at the station after a convivial afternoon/evening ‘on the town’ this is what we found making up the last though service to Crewe; nothing more than a rather run-down Met Cam DMU and at 23 00 at night. Amazingly the driver left the cab blind on the second man’s side open so we bounced and lurched our way up the West Coast main line with a fascinating and completely different view from usual. Small compensation!
By ellyBelly Publications collection Lancashire ref LPPC DSL BW 0676; taken 2022-05-05 11:11:34 GMT; 7.1mb 6753x4529 pixels; comp 840x563