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A Railwayman's View - BR Western Region by Peter Collins > Paddington > LPPC DSL BW 0287

 

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 0287 A Brush Type 2 Class 31 5539 (later 31121) waits at Paddington before returning empty coaching stock to Old Oak Common in the early 1970s. The locomotive is a spiritual successor to the many Pannier and Prairie tank locos that used to cover these workings in steam days, and the North British 63XX ‘Baby Warships’ that had previously worked the trains. It was one of a number of these rather nondescript and, in comparison, far less competent, engines that were drafted into the Western Region to take over from the departing Hymeks, as they were also used on the Worcester services. Keywords: Paddington, Class 31, 5539, D5539, 31121, ECS, Passenger
LPPC DSL BW 0287 A Brush Type 2 Class 31 5539 (later 31121) waits at Paddington before returning empty coaching stock to Old Oak Common in the early 1970s. The locomotive is a spiritual successor to the many Pannier and Prairie tank locos that used to cover these workings in steam days, and the North British 63XX ‘Baby Warships’ that had previously worked the trains. It was one of a number of these rather nondescript and, in comparison, far less competent, engines that were drafted into the Western Region to take over from the departing Hymeks, as they were also used on the Worcester services. Keywords: Paddington, Class 31, 5539, D5539, 31121, ECS, Passenger
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A Brush Type 2 Class 31 5539 (later 31121) waits

at Paddington before returning empty coaching stock to Old Oak Common in the early 1970s. The locomotive is a spiritual successor to the many Pannier and Prairie tank locos that used to cover these workings in steam days, and the North British 63XX ‘Baby Warships’ that had previously worked the trains. It was one of a number of these rather nondescript and, in comparison, far less competent, engines that were drafted into the Western Region to take over from the departing Hymeks, as they were also used on the Worcester services.