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A Railwayman's View - BR Western Region by Peter Collins > To The West > LPPC DSL BW 0965

 

 

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 0965 Originally numbered D0280 and named Falcon as a prototype diesel locomotive in 1962, it had emerged from the Brush works with Maybach engines as a possible ‘standard’ second-generation Type 4 to replace the Class 40s and spent time on the ER under test conditions, but in normal traffic. By the time this shot was obtained in late 1971 inside Swindon Works, it had been demystified and assimilated into the system as plain 1200. Allocated to Bath Road Bristol 82A it was used from there, almost as a common-user engine, on InterCity trains to and from London. As part of an unusual agreement, BR had purchased the loco outright from Brush at scrap value on condition that it was actually scrapped when BR had finished with it, and this finally happened in late 1975. The closest Warship is 862 ‘Viking’, withdrawn on 3rd October 1971 and is being stripped of usable spares before being broken up. Keywords: BR, Western, Swindon Works, D2080, 1200, Falcon, 1971
LPPC DSL BW 0965 Originally numbered D0280 and named Falcon as a prototype diesel locomotive in 1962, it had emerged from the Brush works with Maybach engines as a possible ‘standard’ second-generation Type 4 to replace the Class 40s and spent time on the ER under test conditions, but in normal traffic. By the time this shot was obtained in late 1971 inside Swindon Works, it had been demystified and assimilated into the system as plain 1200. Allocated to Bath Road Bristol 82A it was used from there, almost as a common-user engine, on InterCity trains to and from London. As part of an unusual agreement, BR had purchased the loco outright from Brush at scrap value on condition that it was actually scrapped when BR had finished with it, and this finally happened in late 1975. The closest Warship is 862 ‘Viking’, withdrawn on 3rd October 1971 and is being stripped of usable spares before being broken up. Keywords: BR, Western, Swindon Works, D2080, 1200, Falcon, 1971
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Originally numbered D0280 and named Falcon as a prototype diesel

locomotive in 1962, it had emerged from the Brush works with Maybach engines as a possible ‘standard’ second-generation Type 4 to replace the Class 40s and spent time on the ER under test conditions, but in normal traffic. By the time this shot was obtained in late 1971 inside Swindon Works, it had been demystified and assimilated into the system as plain 1200. Allocated to Bath Road Bristol 82A it was used from there, almost as a common-user engine, on InterCity trains to and from London. As part of an unusual agreement, BR had purchased the loco outright from Brush at scrap value on condition that it was actually scrapped when BR had finished with it, and this finally happened in late 1975. The closest Warship is 862 ‘Viking’, withdrawn on 3rd October 1971 and is being stripped of usable spares before being broken up.