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A Railwayman's View - BR Western Region by Peter Collins > Old Oak Common > LPPC DSL BW 0991

 

 

The photographs in this collection are from the Old Oak Common section of Peter Collins' Railwayman's View Book Volume One - BR Western Region.

LPPC DSL BW 0991 The Western Class 52s were such handsome locomotives and these two (D1038 ‘Western Sovereign’ on the left) are gathered around the last-remaining turntable at Old Oak Common motive power depot along with a couple of duo-green Brush Type 4 Class 47s (D1747, later 47154/47546, is on the right) in 1971. It was somewhat bizarre that a steam-age piece of equipment should still be needed in diesel days. This turntable was one of four at Old Oak originally laid out in a rectangle and all would have been inside a single vast building providing covered accommodation for many of OOC’s top-link Kings, Castles, Halls and the nocturnal night-owls, the 47xx 2-8-0s, during the day plus all the locally allocated pannier tanks. Demolition of OOC began in March 1964 prior to all steam locos being moved away to Southall early in 1965. This is all that was left some 6-7 years later but the depot still remained open. Keywords: 1970, BR, Black and White, D1747, Factory, GWR, London, Old Oak Common, Shed, Western, turntable
LPPC DSL BW 0991 The Western Class 52s were such handsome locomotives and these two (D1038 ‘Western Sovereign’ on the left) are gathered around the last-remaining turntable at Old Oak Common motive power depot along with a couple of duo-green Brush Type 4 Class 47s (D1747, later 47154/47546, is on the right) in 1971. It was somewhat bizarre that a steam-age piece of equipment should still be needed in diesel days. This turntable was one of four at Old Oak originally laid out in a rectangle and all would have been inside a single vast building providing covered accommodation for many of OOC’s top-link Kings, Castles, Halls and the nocturnal night-owls, the 47xx 2-8-0s, during the day plus all the locally allocated pannier tanks. Demolition of OOC began in March 1964 prior to all steam locos being moved away to Southall early in 1965. This is all that was left some 6-7 years later but the depot still remained open. Keywords: 1970, BR, Black and White, D1747, Factory, GWR, London, Old Oak Common, Shed, Western, turntable
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The Western Class 52s were such handsome locomotives and these

two (D1038 ‘Western Sovereign’ on the left) are gathered around the last-remaining turntable at Old Oak Common motive power depot along with a couple of duo-green Brush Type 4 Class 47s (D1747, later 47154/47546, is on the right) in 1971. It was somewhat bizarre that a steam-age piece of equipment should still be needed in diesel days. This turntable was one of four at Old Oak originally laid out in a rectangle and all would have been inside a single vast building providing covered accommodation for many of OOC’s top-link Kings, Castles, Halls and the nocturnal night-owls, the 47xx 2-8-0s, during the day plus all the locally allocated pannier tanks. Demolition of OOC began in March 1964 prior to all steam locos being moved away to Southall early in 1965. This is all that was left some 6-7 years later but the depot still remained open.