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A Railwayman's View - BR Western Region by Peter Collins > Paddington > LPPC DSL BW 0577

 

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 0577 It’s around midnight at a strangely deserted Paddington one Friday night in April 1974. Waiting in platform 2 is the Western Class 52 that will head the overnight sleeper to Penzance, but first it has to pick up the Motorail GUV (General Utility Vehicle) from the loading ramp at the top of the platform at the buffer-stops before finally backing it, or them, onto the front of the sleeping cars. Over on platform 4 Hymek 7029 has a long, patient, wait at the head of a rake of GUVs and at least one Siphon G, before forming the early morning Thames Valley newspaper train. Over on platform 7 the stock is already in to form the 01.25am South and West Wales departure which ran via Gloucester and includes one of the relatively rare Mark 1 brake composites or BCK as they were coded. The Hymek was preserved and is currently undergoing restoration at the Severn Valley Railway by its owners, the Diesel Traction Group. Keywords: Paddington, Western, Hymek, 1974, Passenger, Motorail, 7029, D7029, Parcels
LPPC DSL BW 0577 It’s around midnight at a strangely deserted Paddington one Friday night in April 1974. Waiting in platform 2 is the Western Class 52 that will head the overnight sleeper to Penzance, but first it has to pick up the Motorail GUV (General Utility Vehicle) from the loading ramp at the top of the platform at the buffer-stops before finally backing it, or them, onto the front of the sleeping cars. Over on platform 4 Hymek 7029 has a long, patient, wait at the head of a rake of GUVs and at least one Siphon G, before forming the early morning Thames Valley newspaper train. Over on platform 7 the stock is already in to form the 01.25am South and West Wales departure which ran via Gloucester and includes one of the relatively rare Mark 1 brake composites or BCK as they were coded. The Hymek was preserved and is currently undergoing restoration at the Severn Valley Railway by its owners, the Diesel Traction Group. Keywords: Paddington, Western, Hymek, 1974, Passenger, Motorail, 7029, D7029, Parcels
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It’s around midnight at a strangely deserted Paddington one Friday

night in April 1974. Waiting in platform 2 is the Western Class 52 that will head the overnight sleeper to Penzance, but first it has to pick up the Motorail GUV (General Utility Vehicle) from the loading ramp at the top of the platform at the buffer-stops before finally backing it, or them, onto the front of the sleeping cars. Over on platform 4 Hymek 7029 has a long, patient, wait at the head of a rake of GUVs and at least one Siphon G, before forming the early morning Thames Valley newspaper train. Over on platform 7 the stock is already in to form the 01.25am South and West Wales departure which ran via Gloucester and includes one of the relatively rare Mark 1 brake composites or BCK as they were coded. The Hymek was preserved and is currently undergoing restoration at the Severn Valley Railway by its owners, the Diesel Traction Group.