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A Railwayman's View - BR Western Region by Peter Collins > Kensington Olympia > LPPC DSL BW 0252

 

 

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

LPPC DSL BW 0252 Kensington Olympia basks in the warmth of a beautiful spring day in 1971 as Hymek Class 35 number D7055 rumbles slowly though with an Acton to Norwood Yard transfer freight. There were many of these services scheduled to run inter-regionally across London although, by this time, their future was hanging by a thread as British Rail desperately tried to extricate itself from wagonload traffic. Traffic from the LMR came from Willesden and that from the ER mainly from Temple Mills. Kensington Olympia was yet to be returned to being a station on a national railway network and, as can be seen, no third-rail electricity supply had yet been laid. The first vehicle in the train is one of the ‘To the Continent by Rail’ vans that would be attached to a Dover service once on the Southern and, by means of one of the cross-channel train ferries, gain access to France and beyond for European traffic – the Channel Tunnel was not the start of pan-European rail services. Keywords: BR, Western, Hymek, Freight, Kensington Olympia, 1971, D7055
LPPC DSL BW 0252 Kensington Olympia basks in the warmth of a beautiful spring day in 1971 as Hymek Class 35 number D7055 rumbles slowly though with an Acton to Norwood Yard transfer freight. There were many of these services scheduled to run inter-regionally across London although, by this time, their future was hanging by a thread as British Rail desperately tried to extricate itself from wagonload traffic. Traffic from the LMR came from Willesden and that from the ER mainly from Temple Mills. Kensington Olympia was yet to be returned to being a station on a national railway network and, as can be seen, no third-rail electricity supply had yet been laid. The first vehicle in the train is one of the ‘To the Continent by Rail’ vans that would be attached to a Dover service once on the Southern and, by means of one of the cross-channel train ferries, gain access to France and beyond for European traffic – the Channel Tunnel was not the start of pan-European rail services. Keywords: BR, Western, Hymek, Freight, Kensington Olympia, 1971, D7055
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Kensington Olympia basks in the warmth of a beautiful spring

day in 1971 as Hymek Class 35 number D7055 rumbles slowly though with an Acton to Norwood Yard transfer freight. There were many of these services scheduled to run inter-regionally across London although, by this time, their future was hanging by a thread as British Rail desperately tried to extricate itself from wagonload traffic. Traffic from the LMR came from Willesden and that from the ER mainly from Temple Mills. Kensington Olympia was yet to be returned to being a station on a national railway network and, as can be seen, no third-rail electricity supply had yet been laid.
The first vehicle in the train is one of the ‘To the Continent by Rail’ vans that would be attached to a Dover service once on the Southern and, by means of one of the cross-channel train ferries, gain access to France and beyond for European traffic – the Channel Tunnel was not the start of pan-European rail services.