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A Railwayman's View - BR Western Region by Peter Collins > To The West > LPPC DSL BW 0459

 

 

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 0459 In Sonning Cutting just after passing under the golf course bridge, this Western Class 52 is flat out as it accelerates its Mark 2A plus RB set away from Reading and heads for London on a Saturday morning in 1974. Fleet of foot, it was commonplace for Westerns to reach a cruising speed of 90-95mph on this stretch and cover the 36 miles in around 30 minutes or less. The train headcode is complete nonsense, but it is actually believed to be 09.55am Paignton-Paddington service (1A55) which turned at Paddington to form 1B73 (note the similarity) 14.30pm back to Paignton… Keywords: BR, Western, Class 52, Sonning Cutting, Passenger, 1974
LPPC DSL BW 0459 In Sonning Cutting just after passing under the golf course bridge, this Western Class 52 is flat out as it accelerates its Mark 2A plus RB set away from Reading and heads for London on a Saturday morning in 1974. Fleet of foot, it was commonplace for Westerns to reach a cruising speed of 90-95mph on this stretch and cover the 36 miles in around 30 minutes or less. The train headcode is complete nonsense, but it is actually believed to be 09.55am Paignton-Paddington service (1A55) which turned at Paddington to form 1B73 (note the similarity) 14.30pm back to Paignton… Keywords: BR, Western, Class 52, Sonning Cutting, Passenger, 1974
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In Sonning Cutting just after passing under the golf course

bridge, this Western Class 52 is flat out as it accelerates its Mark 2A plus RB set away from Reading and heads for London on a Saturday morning in 1974. Fleet of foot, it was commonplace for Westerns to reach a cruising speed of 90-95mph on this stretch and cover the 36 miles in around 30 minutes or less. The train headcode is complete nonsense, but it is actually believed to be 09.55am Paignton-Paddington service (1A55) which turned at Paddington to form 1B73 (note the similarity) 14.30pm back to Paignton…