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A Railwayman's View - BR Western Region by Peter Collins > Paddington > LPPC DSL BW 1054

 

The photographs in this collection are from the Paddington section of Peter Collins' Railwayman's View Book Volume One - BR Western Region.

LPPC DSL BW 1054 It is a morning in March 1964 and a visit to Paddington to meet my sister off the train back from school in Great Malvern was always an excuse to try and take some photos with my Brownie 44B. The locomotive numbers were never noted but 6A90 was the headcode for an afternoon Severn Tunnel Junction to Moreton Cutting Sidings freight which presumably was the Western’s previous working. Both trains here were parcels workings, a huge business for the railways then. The incongruous sight of an oil-lamp on the loco in addition to running lights and headcode panel rather encapsulates the philosophy of BR at the time. Keywords: Paddington, Western, BR, 1964, 6A90, mailbags, Warship, Parcels
LPPC DSL BW 1054 It is a morning in March 1964 and a visit to Paddington to meet my sister off the train back from school in Great Malvern was always an excuse to try and take some photos with my Brownie 44B. The locomotive numbers were never noted but 6A90 was the headcode for an afternoon Severn Tunnel Junction to Moreton Cutting Sidings freight which presumably was the Western’s previous working. Both trains here were parcels workings, a huge business for the railways then. The incongruous sight of an oil-lamp on the loco in addition to running lights and headcode panel rather encapsulates the philosophy of BR at the time. Keywords: Paddington, Western, BR, 1964, 6A90, mailbags, Warship, Parcels
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It is a morning in March 1964 and a visit

to Paddington to meet my sister off the train back from school in Great Malvern was always an excuse to try and take some photos with my Brownie 44B.

The locomotive numbers were never noted but 6A90 was the headcode for an afternoon Severn Tunnel Junction to Moreton Cutting Sidings freight which presumably was the Western’s previous working. Both trains here were parcels workings, a huge business for the railways then. The incongruous sight of an oil-lamp on the loco in addition to running lights and headcode panel rather encapsulates the philosophy of BR at the time.