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A Railwayman's View - BR Western Region by Peter Collins > To The West > LPPC DSL BW 0392

 

 

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

LPPC DSL BW 0392 It is salutary to think that there was a yard of this size at the London-entry area of virtually every main-line railway into the metropolis at one time. Built to sort the tens of thousands of braked and unbraked wagons that arrived 24 hours a day from every corner of the UK it was, perhaps, not surprising that BR wanted rid of the whole tradition. This shot, of Acton Yard, was taken mid-morning when all the overnight services had arrived and the onward services had left. A rare quiet moment with only a Class 08 ‘playing with trucks’ as the Rev Awdry would have said, in the middle-distance. On the far right can be glimpsed the beginnings of the stone-traffic terminal which now dominates the scene. Keywords: BR, Western, Acton, Marshalling Yard, Class 08
LPPC DSL BW 0392 It is salutary to think that there was a yard of this size at the London-entry area of virtually every main-line railway into the metropolis at one time. Built to sort the tens of thousands of braked and unbraked wagons that arrived 24 hours a day from every corner of the UK it was, perhaps, not surprising that BR wanted rid of the whole tradition. This shot, of Acton Yard, was taken mid-morning when all the overnight services had arrived and the onward services had left. A rare quiet moment with only a Class 08 ‘playing with trucks’ as the Rev Awdry would have said, in the middle-distance. On the far right can be glimpsed the beginnings of the stone-traffic terminal which now dominates the scene. Keywords: BR, Western, Acton, Marshalling Yard, Class 08
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It is salutary to think that there was a yard

of this size at the London-entry area of virtually every main-line railway into the metropolis at one time. Built to sort the tens of thousands of braked and unbraked wagons that arrived 24 hours a day from every corner of the UK it was, perhaps, not surprising that BR wanted rid of the whole tradition. This shot, of Acton Yard, was taken mid-morning when all the overnight services had arrived and the onward services had left. A rare quiet moment with only a Class 08 ‘playing with trucks’ as the Rev Awdry would have said, in the middle-distance. On the far right can be glimpsed the beginnings of the stone-traffic terminal which now dominates the scene.