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A Railwayman's View - BR Western Region by Peter Collins > Paddington > LPPC DSL BW 0683

 

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 0683 Brush Type 4 Class 47 47500 ‘Great Western’ has charge of the Venice Simplon Orient Express Pullmans making up a special service to the March Cheltenham Gold Cup horse races, some time in the 1980s. The locomotive when built was given the number D1943, but on reception of its Total Operations Processing System (TOPS) identity it also received the nameplate and company crest in February 1979, eventually becoming the region’s pet, being painted GWR green and even having brass cabside number plates attached. Keywords: BR, Western, Pullman, Passenger, 47500, 'Great Western', Special, Paddington
LPPC DSL BW 0683 Brush Type 4 Class 47 47500 ‘Great Western’ has charge of the Venice Simplon Orient Express Pullmans making up a special service to the March Cheltenham Gold Cup horse races, some time in the 1980s. The locomotive when built was given the number D1943, but on reception of its Total Operations Processing System (TOPS) identity it also received the nameplate and company crest in February 1979, eventually becoming the region’s pet, being painted GWR green and even having brass cabside number plates attached. Keywords: BR, Western, Pullman, Passenger, 47500, 'Great Western', Special, Paddington
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Brush Type 4 Class 47 47500 ‘Great Western’ has charge

of the Venice Simplon Orient Express Pullmans making up a special service to the March Cheltenham Gold Cup horse races, some time in the 1980s. The locomotive when built was given the number D1943, but on reception of its Total Operations Processing System (TOPS) identity it also received the nameplate and company crest in February 1979, eventually becoming the region’s pet, being painted GWR green and even having brass cabside number plates attached.