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A Railwayman's View - BR Western Region by Peter Collins > Kensington Olympia > LPPC DSL BW 0259

 

 

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 0259 Another late-model Sulzer Type 2 Class 25 of the type built without corridor-connections, number 7666 (later 25316/25911) rumbles through Kensington with 9T37, loose-coupled inter-regional southbound coal, probably from the Midland’s Brent Yard in North London. Brave new world, but even that headcode box would prove to be transitory. It was astonishing how busy the line was with freights following each other in both directions. Now it’s almost entirely Class 378 Overground trains which run every 20 minutes in both directions between Clapham Junction, Willesden Junction and beyond. The locomotive was one of twelve ‘low-hours’ (since overhaul) of the remaining Class 25/3 locomotives that were subsequently designated as Class 25/9 in March 1985. Intended to operate traffic expected to be won for the Industrial Minerals Division of Railfreight, it was withdrawn soon after when Railfreight failed to win the contract. Keywords: BR, Coal, 7666, Class 25, 25316, 25911, Western, Kensington Olympia, Freight
LPPC DSL BW 0259 Another late-model Sulzer Type 2 Class 25 of the type built without corridor-connections, number 7666 (later 25316/25911) rumbles through Kensington with 9T37, loose-coupled inter-regional southbound coal, probably from the Midland’s Brent Yard in North London. Brave new world, but even that headcode box would prove to be transitory. It was astonishing how busy the line was with freights following each other in both directions. Now it’s almost entirely Class 378 Overground trains which run every 20 minutes in both directions between Clapham Junction, Willesden Junction and beyond. The locomotive was one of twelve ‘low-hours’ (since overhaul) of the remaining Class 25/3 locomotives that were subsequently designated as Class 25/9 in March 1985. Intended to operate traffic expected to be won for the Industrial Minerals Division of Railfreight, it was withdrawn soon after when Railfreight failed to win the contract. Keywords: BR, Coal, 7666, Class 25, 25316, 25911, Western, Kensington Olympia, Freight
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Another late-model Sulzer Type 2 Class 25 of the type

built without corridor-connections, number 7666 (later 25316/25911) rumbles through Kensington with 9T37, loose-coupled inter-regional southbound coal, probably from the Midland’s Brent Yard in North London. Brave new world, but even that headcode box would prove to be transitory. It was astonishing how busy the line was with freights following each other in both directions. Now it’s almost entirely Class 378 Overground trains which run every 20 minutes in both directions between Clapham Junction, Willesden Junction and beyond. The locomotive was one of twelve ‘low-hours’ (since overhaul) of the remaining Class 25/3 locomotives that were subsequently designated as Class 25/9 in March 1985. Intended to operate traffic expected to be won for the Industrial Minerals Division of Railfreight, it was withdrawn soon after when Railfreight failed to win the contract.