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A Railwayman's View - BR Western Region by Peter Collins > Kensington Olympia > LPPC DSL BW 0317

 

 

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 0317 A quiet moment one summer’s morning at Kensington Olympia in 1971 as a Brush Type 2 Class 31 gets underway from a signal stop outside the North signalbox, with a cross-London freight for Hither Green. This is a fascinating glimpse during the long evolution of BR from Victorian masterpiece of the world to state-of-the-art modern railway. The signalbox, signals and general infrastructure are firmly from the past and even the locomotive, by this time, is coming up for its 12th birthday, longer on the rails than many of BR’s Standard classes of steam engine managed. Mind you, the budget available for change from the public purse was tiny, compared to the huge amounts thrown at today’s privatised rail franchises. Keywords: BR, Kensington Olympia, Western, Class 31, Freight, 1971
LPPC DSL BW 0317 A quiet moment one summer’s morning at Kensington Olympia in 1971 as a Brush Type 2 Class 31 gets underway from a signal stop outside the North signalbox, with a cross-London freight for Hither Green. This is a fascinating glimpse during the long evolution of BR from Victorian masterpiece of the world to state-of-the-art modern railway. The signalbox, signals and general infrastructure are firmly from the past and even the locomotive, by this time, is coming up for its 12th birthday, longer on the rails than many of BR’s Standard classes of steam engine managed. Mind you, the budget available for change from the public purse was tiny, compared to the huge amounts thrown at today’s privatised rail franchises. Keywords: BR, Kensington Olympia, Western, Class 31, Freight, 1971
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A quiet moment one summer’s morning at Kensington Olympia in

1971 as a Brush Type 2 Class 31 gets underway from a signal stop outside the North signalbox, with a cross-London freight for Hither Green.

This is a fascinating glimpse during the long evolution of BR from Victorian masterpiece of the world to state-of-the-art modern railway. The signalbox, signals and general infrastructure are firmly from the past and even the locomotive, by this time, is coming up for its 12th birthday, longer on the rails than many of BR’s Standard classes of steam engine managed. Mind you, the budget available for change from the public purse was tiny, compared to the huge amounts thrown at today’s privatised rail franchises.