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A Railwayman's View - BR Western Region by Peter Collins > To The West > LPPC DSL BW 05270540

 

 

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 05270540 A slightly down-at-heel and careworn Class 47 Brush Type 4 number 1909 (later 47232) is stabled in Didcot sidings one 1970s Sunday amongst a number of period-style engineers wagons. Still in its two-tone green but bearing the larger style numbers applied to diesels post-steam, this was a long-term Western Region engine spending much of its early life allocated to Bristol Bath Road. A possession was ensuring that the Swindon to Didcot section of the GW main line was blocked to normal traffic and 1909 is dozing away the Sunday waiting to be activated to return to site to help clear up wagons and workers, ready for a resumption of normal train working on the Monday morning. The locomotive is still with us today, awaiting restoration on the Wensleydale Railway in North Yorkshire, and is believed to be still in its final English, Welsh & Scottish Railway (EWS) livery. It carried 5 numbers, D1909, 47232, 47665, 47820 and finally 47785. On 11th June 1997 it became the first EWS Class 47 to be named. It was named ‘Fiona Castle’ by the widow of entertainer Roy Castle, to mark the running of the British leg of the final, 1997 Tour of Hope fundraising train for the Liverpool Lung Cancer Hospital. The train ran from London Waterloo to Liverpool Lime Street station to coincide with the opening of the Lung Cancer Research facility that had been the focus of the original ‘Tour of Hope’ train that toured Britain in July 1994, raising £1m in three days. All of this was some 25 years after this photograph was taken. Keywords: BR, D1909, 1909, 47232, 47665, 47820, 47785, 'Fiona Castle', Didcot, Light Engine, Class 47, Western
LPPC DSL BW 05270540 A slightly down-at-heel and careworn Class 47 Brush Type 4 number 1909 (later 47232) is stabled in Didcot sidings one 1970s Sunday amongst a number of period-style engineers wagons. Still in its two-tone green but bearing the larger style numbers applied to diesels post-steam, this was a long-term Western Region engine spending much of its early life allocated to Bristol Bath Road. A possession was ensuring that the Swindon to Didcot section of the GW main line was blocked to normal traffic and 1909 is dozing away the Sunday waiting to be activated to return to site to help clear up wagons and workers, ready for a resumption of normal train working on the Monday morning. The locomotive is still with us today, awaiting restoration on the Wensleydale Railway in North Yorkshire, and is believed to be still in its final English, Welsh & Scottish Railway (EWS) livery. It carried 5 numbers, D1909, 47232, 47665, 47820 and finally 47785. On 11th June 1997 it became the first EWS Class 47 to be named. It was named ‘Fiona Castle’ by the widow of entertainer Roy Castle, to mark the running of the British leg of the final, 1997 Tour of Hope fundraising train for the Liverpool Lung Cancer Hospital. The train ran from London Waterloo to Liverpool Lime Street station to coincide with the opening of the Lung Cancer Research facility that had been the focus of the original ‘Tour of Hope’ train that toured Britain in July 1994, raising £1m in three days. All of this was some 25 years after this photograph was taken. Keywords: BR, D1909, 1909, 47232, 47665, 47820, 47785, 'Fiona Castle', Didcot, Light Engine, Class 47, Western
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A slightly down-at-heel and careworn Class 47 Brush Type 4

number 1909 (later 47232) is stabled in Didcot sidings one 1970s Sunday amongst a number of period-style engineers wagons. Still in its two-tone green but bearing the larger style numbers applied to diesels post-steam, this was a long-term Western Region engine spending much of its early life allocated to Bristol Bath Road. A possession was ensuring that the Swindon to Didcot section of the GW main line was blocked to normal traffic and 1909 is dozing away the Sunday waiting to be activated to return to site to help clear up wagons and workers, ready for a resumption of normal train working on the Monday morning.

The locomotive is still with us today, awaiting restoration on the Wensleydale Railway in North Yorkshire, and is believed to be still in its final English, Welsh & Scottish Railway (EWS) livery. It carried 5 numbers, D1909, 47232, 47665, 47820 and finally 47785. On 11th June 1997 it became the first EWS Class 47 to be named. It was named ‘Fiona Castle’ by the widow of entertainer Roy Castle, to mark the running of the British leg of the final, 1997 Tour of Hope fundraising train for the Liverpool Lung Cancer Hospital.

The train ran from London Waterloo to Liverpool Lime Street station to coincide with the opening of the Lung Cancer Research facility that had been the focus of the original ‘Tour of Hope’ train that toured Britain in July 1994, raising £1m in three days.

All of this was some 25 years after this photograph was taken.