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A Railwayman's View - BR Western Region by Peter Collins > Kensington Olympia > LPPC DSL BW 0316

 

 

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 0316 Still carrying its duo-green livery and ticking over in the languid way that typified the type, Class 25 Sulzer Type 2 number D7530 (later 25180), one of the late-built batch, sits in the warm sunshine in 1971 in the Milk Sidings at London’s Kensington Olympia station, surrounded by an array of LMS style upper quadrant semaphore signals. The station was originally named Addison Road after the street in the background but was changed when the Olympia exhibition halls were built alongside. Eventually the route was electrified on the DC third-rail system which led to the development of London’s Overground suburban lines, but also allowed Eurostar trains to travel from their Old Oak Common depot to and from Waterloo International until that service was found a permanent UK home at St Pancras, with maintenance at Temple Mills. Keywords: BR, Western, Class 25, D7530, 25180, Kensington Olympia, Sulzer, Freight, Milk
LPPC DSL BW 0316 Still carrying its duo-green livery and ticking over in the languid way that typified the type, Class 25 Sulzer Type 2 number D7530 (later 25180), one of the late-built batch, sits in the warm sunshine in 1971 in the Milk Sidings at London’s Kensington Olympia station, surrounded by an array of LMS style upper quadrant semaphore signals. The station was originally named Addison Road after the street in the background but was changed when the Olympia exhibition halls were built alongside. Eventually the route was electrified on the DC third-rail system which led to the development of London’s Overground suburban lines, but also allowed Eurostar trains to travel from their Old Oak Common depot to and from Waterloo International until that service was found a permanent UK home at St Pancras, with maintenance at Temple Mills. Keywords: BR, Western, Class 25, D7530, 25180, Kensington Olympia, Sulzer, Freight, Milk
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Still carrying its duo-green livery and ticking over in the

languid way that typified the type, Class 25 Sulzer Type 2 number D7530 (later 25180), one of the late-built batch, sits in the warm sunshine in 1971 in the Milk Sidings at London’s Kensington Olympia station, surrounded by an array of LMS style upper quadrant semaphore signals.

The station was originally named Addison Road after the street in the background but was changed when the Olympia exhibition halls were built alongside.

Eventually the route was electrified on the DC third-rail system which led to the development of London’s Overground suburban lines, but also allowed Eurostar trains to travel from their Old Oak Common depot to and from Waterloo International until that service was found a permanent UK home at St Pancras, with maintenance at Temple Mills.