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A Railwayman's View - BR Western Region by Peter Collins > To The West > LPPC DSL BW 0892

 

 

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 0892 Moving further out of the London area we reach Slough and here on a hot summer’s day in 1976 an English Electric Class 50 (possibly 50026) thunders west with a down Inter City express for Devon and Cornwall. Nicknamed Hoovers from their engine noise, these locos proved to be worthy replacements of the Western Class 52s. The whole class was turned over to the WR once their original purpose of working north of Crewe on the LMR was no longer required by the electrification of the West Coast main line. I have often wondered if, by the setting of the headcode panel, someone with a sense of humour has unofficially named the loco ‘Western Enterprise’.. Keywords: Slough, BR, Western, Class 50, Passenger, 50026
LPPC DSL BW 0892 Moving further out of the London area we reach Slough and here on a hot summer’s day in 1976 an English Electric Class 50 (possibly 50026) thunders west with a down Inter City express for Devon and Cornwall. Nicknamed Hoovers from their engine noise, these locos proved to be worthy replacements of the Western Class 52s. The whole class was turned over to the WR once their original purpose of working north of Crewe on the LMR was no longer required by the electrification of the West Coast main line. I have often wondered if, by the setting of the headcode panel, someone with a sense of humour has unofficially named the loco ‘Western Enterprise’.. Keywords: Slough, BR, Western, Class 50, Passenger, 50026
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Moving further out of the London area we reach Slough

and here on a hot summer’s day in 1976 an English Electric Class 50 (possibly 50026) thunders west with a down Inter City express for Devon and Cornwall. Nicknamed Hoovers from their engine noise, these locos proved to be worthy replacements of the Western Class 52s. The whole class was turned over to the WR once their original purpose of working north of Crewe on the LMR was no longer required by the electrification of the West Coast main line. I have often wondered if, by the setting of the headcode panel, someone with a sense of humour has unofficially named the loco ‘Western Enterprise’..