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A Railwayman's View - BR Western Region by Peter Collins > To The West > LPPC DSL BW 0443

 

 

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 0443 Powering out of Sonning Cutting towards Twyford is a Brush Type 4 Class 47 on the 08.25am 1V18 from Birmingham to Paddington train on a Saturday morning in the 1970s. The train is entirely of Mark 1 stock and probably consists of carriages then intended for weekday Thames Valley peak-hour commuter services. Although these sets spent most daytimes in OOC sidings before returning home with their commuters, the Coaching Stock section made much use of them at weekends allocating them on anything from Footexs to Merrymakers. Few of those joining these carriages at, say, Didcot on a Monday morning would have realised that they had been to Blackpool, Margate, Tenby or York the day before. Keywords: BR, Western, Class 47, Sonning Cutting, Passenger
LPPC DSL BW 0443 Powering out of Sonning Cutting towards Twyford is a Brush Type 4 Class 47 on the 08.25am 1V18 from Birmingham to Paddington train on a Saturday morning in the 1970s. The train is entirely of Mark 1 stock and probably consists of carriages then intended for weekday Thames Valley peak-hour commuter services. Although these sets spent most daytimes in OOC sidings before returning home with their commuters, the Coaching Stock section made much use of them at weekends allocating them on anything from Footexs to Merrymakers. Few of those joining these carriages at, say, Didcot on a Monday morning would have realised that they had been to Blackpool, Margate, Tenby or York the day before. Keywords: BR, Western, Class 47, Sonning Cutting, Passenger
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Powering out of Sonning Cutting towards Twyford is a Brush

Type 4 Class 47 on the 08.25am 1V18 from Birmingham to Paddington train on a Saturday morning in the 1970s. The train is entirely of Mark 1 stock and probably consists of carriages then intended for weekday Thames Valley peak-hour commuter services. Although these sets spent most daytimes in OOC sidings before returning home with their commuters, the Coaching Stock section made much use of them at weekends allocating them on anything from Footexs to Merrymakers. Few of those joining these carriages at, say, Didcot on a Monday morning would have realised that they had been to Blackpool, Margate, Tenby or York the day before.