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A Railwayman's View - BR Western Region by Peter Collins > Paddington > LPPC DSL BW 0261

 

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 0261 Hymek D7064 arrives at Paddington’s platform 4 on a gloomy afternoon with the 14.15pm from Worcester (1A26) in 1971. Consisting entirely of Mark 1 stock, these trains were and always had been the Cinderellas of the various mainline routes radiating out of the capital to the West and were always at the end of the supply-chain as far as motive-power was concerned. Despite this, with the last-remaining Hymek Type 3s concentrated on the route they were quite capable of running very fast indeed, even in their twilight hours. In the far right background, an LT Hammersmith-line train is calling at Royal Oak station. D7064 was withdrawn on 3rd October 1971, not long after this photo was taken and is reflected in the state of the loco! Keywords: BR, Paddington, Western, 1971, D7064, 7064, Hymek
LPPC DSL BW 0261 Hymek D7064 arrives at Paddington’s platform 4 on a gloomy afternoon with the 14.15pm from Worcester (1A26) in 1971. Consisting entirely of Mark 1 stock, these trains were and always had been the Cinderellas of the various mainline routes radiating out of the capital to the West and were always at the end of the supply-chain as far as motive-power was concerned. Despite this, with the last-remaining Hymek Type 3s concentrated on the route they were quite capable of running very fast indeed, even in their twilight hours. In the far right background, an LT Hammersmith-line train is calling at Royal Oak station. D7064 was withdrawn on 3rd October 1971, not long after this photo was taken and is reflected in the state of the loco! Keywords: BR, Paddington, Western, 1971, D7064, 7064, Hymek
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Hymek D7064 arrives at Paddington’s platform 4 on a gloomy

afternoon with the 14.15pm from Worcester (1A26) in 1971. Consisting entirely of Mark 1 stock, these trains were and always had been the Cinderellas of the various mainline routes radiating out of the capital to the West and were always at the end of the supply-chain as far as motive-power was concerned. Despite this, with the last-remaining Hymek Type 3s concentrated on the route they were quite capable of running very fast indeed, even in their twilight hours. In the far right background, an LT Hammersmith-line train is calling at Royal Oak station. D7064 was withdrawn on 3rd October 1971, not long after this photo was taken and is reflected in the state of the loco!