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A Railwayman's View - BR Western Region by Peter Collins > Paddington > LPPC DSL BW 0263

 

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 0263 A summer’s morning at Paddington station in 1971 and on the left one of the newly arrived Brush Type 2 Class 31 locomotives waits to leave for Old Oak Common with 5A71, the empty stock of the 07.58am Didcot service, 1A71, consisting of one of the Western Region’s air-braked Mark 2 coaching sets. The Class 47 on Platform 5 is at the head of the 09.45am Paddington to Bristol Temple Meads, 1B52. The DMUs that replaced steam on the Western’s Thames Valley suburban services lasted for many years and one of these units is waiting to leave on Platform 6 with 2A18 from Paddington to Reading at 10.35am, calling at all stations. The Brute trolleys seen on the left of the photograph are left over from the previous night’s parcels activities. These trolleys are synonymous with British Rail at this time, and probably burned into the memories of many a rail enthusiast even now, some 50 years later. Keywords: BR, Paddington, Class 31, Class 47, 1971, Passenger
LPPC DSL BW 0263 A summer’s morning at Paddington station in 1971 and on the left one of the newly arrived Brush Type 2 Class 31 locomotives waits to leave for Old Oak Common with 5A71, the empty stock of the 07.58am Didcot service, 1A71, consisting of one of the Western Region’s air-braked Mark 2 coaching sets. The Class 47 on Platform 5 is at the head of the 09.45am Paddington to Bristol Temple Meads, 1B52. The DMUs that replaced steam on the Western’s Thames Valley suburban services lasted for many years and one of these units is waiting to leave on Platform 6 with 2A18 from Paddington to Reading at 10.35am, calling at all stations. The Brute trolleys seen on the left of the photograph are left over from the previous night’s parcels activities. These trolleys are synonymous with British Rail at this time, and probably burned into the memories of many a rail enthusiast even now, some 50 years later. Keywords: BR, Paddington, Class 31, Class 47, 1971, Passenger
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A summer’s morning at Paddington station in 1971 and on

the left one of the newly arrived Brush Type 2 Class 31 locomotives waits to leave for Old Oak Common with 5A71, the empty stock of the 07.58am Didcot service, 1A71, consisting of one of the Western Region’s air-braked Mark 2 coaching sets. The Class 47 on Platform 5 is at the head of the 09.45am Paddington to Bristol Temple Meads, 1B52. The DMUs that replaced steam on the Western’s Thames Valley suburban services lasted for many years and one of these units is waiting to leave on Platform 6 with 2A18 from Paddington to Reading at 10.35am, calling at all stations. The Brute trolleys seen on the left of the photograph are left over from the previous night’s parcels activities. These trolleys are synonymous with British Rail at this time, and probably burned into the memories of many a rail enthusiast even now, some 50 years later.