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A Railwayman's View - BR Western Region by Peter Collins > Paddington > LPPC DSL BW 0312

 

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 0312 It is difficult to believe that well into the rail-blue era, the huge Paddington Goods Depot was still despatching trains to the west. Here, in the mid-1970s, a Class 47 Brush Type 4 D1637 (later 47483) makes up its train of fitted vans in the yard adjacent to Royal Oak underground station on the Hammersmith branch. Nowadays the location is part of the Crossrail project, an area of which was also once utilised as a bus depot. After closure to rail services the vast goods shed became a National Carriers Limited road depot before it was finally earmarked for redevelopment and demolished in 1986. Keywords: BR, Paddington, Western, Class 47, Parcels, Freight, D1637, 47483, Royal Oak
LPPC DSL BW 0312 It is difficult to believe that well into the rail-blue era, the huge Paddington Goods Depot was still despatching trains to the west. Here, in the mid-1970s, a Class 47 Brush Type 4 D1637 (later 47483) makes up its train of fitted vans in the yard adjacent to Royal Oak underground station on the Hammersmith branch. Nowadays the location is part of the Crossrail project, an area of which was also once utilised as a bus depot. After closure to rail services the vast goods shed became a National Carriers Limited road depot before it was finally earmarked for redevelopment and demolished in 1986. Keywords: BR, Paddington, Western, Class 47, Parcels, Freight, D1637, 47483, Royal Oak
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It is difficult to believe that well into the rail-blue

era, the huge Paddington Goods Depot was still despatching trains to the west. Here, in the mid-1970s, a Class 47 Brush Type 4 D1637 (later 47483) makes up its train of fitted vans in the yard adjacent to Royal Oak underground station on the Hammersmith branch. Nowadays the location is part of the Crossrail project, an area of which was also once utilised as a bus depot. After closure to rail services the vast goods shed became a National Carriers Limited road depot before it was finally earmarked for redevelopment and demolished in 1986.