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A Railwayman's View - BR Western Region by Peter Collins > Old Oak Common > LPPC DSL BW 0997

 

 

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 0997 Hymek Class 35 number 7029 is parked outside the Old Oak Common ’Factory’ awaiting repairs. Possibly, it will be the recipient of the spare Hymek power bogie seen in the foreground. The loco also displays one of BR’s crass displays of modernisation at all costs, whereby the cast ‘D’ has been painted out so that everyone would be fooled into thinking what an up to date non-steam railway system it now was. The locomotive is one of four Hymeks that did not suffer the fate of the cutter’s torch. Owned by the Diesel Traction Group, it is currently undergoing a complete restoration at the Severn Valley Railway. Keywords: 1970, BR, Black and White, D7029, Factory, GWR, London, Old Oak Common, Shed
LPPC DSL BW 0997 Hymek Class 35 number 7029 is parked outside the Old Oak Common ’Factory’ awaiting repairs. Possibly, it will be the recipient of the spare Hymek power bogie seen in the foreground. The loco also displays one of BR’s crass displays of modernisation at all costs, whereby the cast ‘D’ has been painted out so that everyone would be fooled into thinking what an up to date non-steam railway system it now was. The locomotive is one of four Hymeks that did not suffer the fate of the cutter’s torch. Owned by the Diesel Traction Group, it is currently undergoing a complete restoration at the Severn Valley Railway. Keywords: 1970, BR, Black and White, D7029, Factory, GWR, London, Old Oak Common, Shed
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Hymek Class 35 number 7029 is parked outside the Old

Oak Common ’Factory’ awaiting repairs. Possibly, it will be the recipient of the spare Hymek power bogie seen in the foreground. The loco also displays one of BR’s crass displays of modernisation at all costs, whereby the cast ‘D’ has been painted out so that everyone would be fooled into thinking what an up to date non-steam railway system it now was. The locomotive is one of four Hymeks that did not suffer the fate of the cutter’s torch. Owned by the Diesel Traction Group, it is currently undergoing a complete restoration at the Severn Valley Railway.