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A Railwayman's View - BR Western Region by Peter Collins > To The West > LPPC DSL BW 0455

 

 

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 0455 A filthy, excess-fuel stained Western D1048 ‘Western Lady’ trundles down the ex GWR main line one cold March afternoon in the early 1970s with a freight from Acton Yard heading for Didcot and beyond. The story of the Class 52s was much the same as that of the Hymeks, suffering gradual loss of status as standardised motive-power was built, or cascaded in. At one time they enjoyed a monopoly of traction on the Birkenhead, Devon and Cornwall routes, but this shot graphically describes the story at the end of their days. However, 1048 was one of the lucky ones and survives in preservation today on the Midland Railway at Butterly, Derbyshire. Keywords: BR, Western, Freight, D1048, 'Western Lady', Didcot
LPPC DSL BW 0455 A filthy, excess-fuel stained Western D1048 ‘Western Lady’ trundles down the ex GWR main line one cold March afternoon in the early 1970s with a freight from Acton Yard heading for Didcot and beyond. The story of the Class 52s was much the same as that of the Hymeks, suffering gradual loss of status as standardised motive-power was built, or cascaded in. At one time they enjoyed a monopoly of traction on the Birkenhead, Devon and Cornwall routes, but this shot graphically describes the story at the end of their days. However, 1048 was one of the lucky ones and survives in preservation today on the Midland Railway at Butterly, Derbyshire. Keywords: BR, Western, Freight, D1048, 'Western Lady', Didcot
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A filthy, excess-fuel stained Western D1048 ‘Western Lady’ trundles down

the ex GWR main line one cold March afternoon in the early 1970s with a freight from Acton Yard heading for Didcot and beyond. The story of the Class 52s was much the same as that of the Hymeks, suffering gradual loss of status as standardised motive-power was built, or cascaded in. At one time they enjoyed a monopoly of traction on the Birkenhead, Devon and Cornwall routes, but this shot graphically describes the story at the end of their days. However, 1048 was one of the lucky ones and survives in preservation today on the Midland Railway at Butterly, Derbyshire.