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A Railwayman's View - BR Western Region by Peter Collins > Kensington Olympia > LPPC DSL BW 1273

 

 

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 1273 One day the Special Carriage Notices landed on my desk and foremost was a very small item. It consisted of only three lines of print. The Royal Train was due to arrive at Kensington Olympia that Sunday in the early afternoon. In theory it had nothing to do with us as the train was due onto the WR at North Pole, run briefly to Kensington, where the locos would run round, and it would then depart northwards again. One big attraction was that this was not the latest Royal Train, but the previous incarnation, thus it contained such gems as the 12-wheeled converted ex-LNWR power car, which can clearly be seen as the first vehicle behind the two Sulzer Type 2 Class 25s. Other than the railway employee on my platform and the member of the public in the right background, there was no-one else around to record the movement. Keywords: BR, Class 25, Double Header, Royal Train, Kensington Olympia, ECS, Western
LPPC DSL BW 1273 One day the Special Carriage Notices landed on my desk and foremost was a very small item. It consisted of only three lines of print. The Royal Train was due to arrive at Kensington Olympia that Sunday in the early afternoon. In theory it had nothing to do with us as the train was due onto the WR at North Pole, run briefly to Kensington, where the locos would run round, and it would then depart northwards again. One big attraction was that this was not the latest Royal Train, but the previous incarnation, thus it contained such gems as the 12-wheeled converted ex-LNWR power car, which can clearly be seen as the first vehicle behind the two Sulzer Type 2 Class 25s. Other than the railway employee on my platform and the member of the public in the right background, there was no-one else around to record the movement. Keywords: BR, Class 25, Double Header, Royal Train, Kensington Olympia, ECS, Western
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One day the Special Carriage Notices landed on my desk

and foremost was a very small item. It consisted of only three lines of print. The Royal Train was due to arrive at Kensington Olympia that Sunday in the early afternoon. In theory it had nothing to do with us as the train was due onto the WR at North Pole, run briefly to Kensington, where the locos would run round, and it would then depart northwards again. One big attraction was that this was not the latest Royal Train, but the previous incarnation, thus it contained such gems as the 12-wheeled converted ex-LNWR power car, which can clearly be seen as the first vehicle behind the two Sulzer Type 2 Class 25s. Other than the railway employee on my platform and the member of the public in the right background, there was no-one else around to record the movement.