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A Railwayman's View - BR Western Region by Peter Collins > To The West > LPPC DSL BW 0356

 

 

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 0356 On one of its last-ever diagrammed trips, the early evening down Bristol Pullman hurries past Reading General station. By this time these Pullman units’ exclusivity was mainly curiosity value, as their ride was considerably inferior to the Mark 2 coaching stock used by the WR on their InterCity routes. The corporate planners obviously hadn’t got to grips with Reading signage by this point, as although Reading Southern station had been demolished and replaced with the platform at which the London Waterloo-bound Southern 4 CIG unit is standing at, the main station is still, at this point, called Reading General. The appellation General being a very GWR way of saying their station was the more important if there was more then one in a town. Keywords: BR, Bristol Pullman, Reading, Passenger, 4CIG, Western
LPPC DSL BW 0356 On one of its last-ever diagrammed trips, the early evening down Bristol Pullman hurries past Reading General station. By this time these Pullman units’ exclusivity was mainly curiosity value, as their ride was considerably inferior to the Mark 2 coaching stock used by the WR on their InterCity routes. The corporate planners obviously hadn’t got to grips with Reading signage by this point, as although Reading Southern station had been demolished and replaced with the platform at which the London Waterloo-bound Southern 4 CIG unit is standing at, the main station is still, at this point, called Reading General. The appellation General being a very GWR way of saying their station was the more important if there was more then one in a town. Keywords: BR, Bristol Pullman, Reading, Passenger, 4CIG, Western
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On one of its last-ever diagrammed trips, the early evening

down Bristol Pullman hurries past Reading General station. By this time these Pullman units’ exclusivity was mainly curiosity value, as their ride was considerably inferior to the Mark 2 coaching stock used by the WR on their InterCity routes. The corporate planners obviously hadn’t got to grips with Reading signage by this point, as although Reading Southern station had been demolished and replaced with the platform at which the London Waterloo-bound Southern 4 CIG unit is standing at, the main station is still, at this point, called Reading General. The appellation General being a very GWR way of saying their station was the more important if there was more then one in a town.