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A Railwayman's View - BR Western Region by Peter Collins > West Country > LPPC PHOT SCAN 0005-Edit

 

 

The photographs in this collection are from the West Country section of Peter Collins' Railwayman's View Book Volume One - BR Western Region.

LPPC PHOT SCAN 0005-Edit On 4th December 1976 an ambitious railtour was run to cover West Cornwall branches and was given the title ‘Western China Clay’ for obvious reasons. In order to cover Falmouth, Carne Point and Newquay in one day, departure from Paddington was 00.35am, with a booked 45-minute rest stop at Bristol Temple Meads. During this stop, in the fog at 03.00am standing at an adjacent platform, was a very down-at-heel Western Class 52 1010 ‘Western Campaigner’ and I thought that the combination of the loco’s condition, the time of night and weather together with its swirling exhaust and the small amount of available light encapsulated British Rail’s attitude to hydraulic diesels at the time. 1010 was HFR (Home For Repair) on the 4V03 21.20pm Birmingham Curzon Street-Plymouth parcels, which it worked from Bristol. She had failed at Bristol after working 1V90 13.21pm Liverpool- Plymouth from Gloucester to Bristol on the 3rd. She then underwent maintenance to an engine fault on Bath Road before going home on the 4V03. After arrival at Plymouth she went to Laira until the 8th December for engine repairs. Keywords: BR, Western, Class 52, Bristol Temple Meads, Railtour, Passenger, D1010, 'Western Campaigner', 'Western China Clay', 1976, December
LPPC PHOT SCAN 0005-Edit On 4th December 1976 an ambitious railtour was run to cover West Cornwall branches and was given the title ‘Western China Clay’ for obvious reasons. In order to cover Falmouth, Carne Point and Newquay in one day, departure from Paddington was 00.35am, with a booked 45-minute rest stop at Bristol Temple Meads. During this stop, in the fog at 03.00am standing at an adjacent platform, was a very down-at-heel Western Class 52 1010 ‘Western Campaigner’ and I thought that the combination of the loco’s condition, the time of night and weather together with its swirling exhaust and the small amount of available light encapsulated British Rail’s attitude to hydraulic diesels at the time. 1010 was HFR (Home For Repair) on the 4V03 21.20pm Birmingham Curzon Street-Plymouth parcels, which it worked from Bristol. She had failed at Bristol after working 1V90 13.21pm Liverpool- Plymouth from Gloucester to Bristol on the 3rd. She then underwent maintenance to an engine fault on Bath Road before going home on the 4V03. After arrival at Plymouth she went to Laira until the 8th December for engine repairs. Keywords: BR, Western, Class 52, Bristol Temple Meads, Railtour, Passenger, D1010, 'Western Campaigner', 'Western China Clay', 1976, December
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On 4th December 1976 an ambitious railtour was run to

cover West Cornwall branches and was given the title ‘Western China Clay’ for obvious reasons. In order to cover Falmouth, Carne Point and Newquay in one day, departure from Paddington was 00.35am, with a booked 45-minute rest stop at Bristol Temple Meads. During this stop, in the fog at 03.00am standing at an adjacent platform, was a very down-at-heel Western Class 52 1010 ‘Western Campaigner’ and I thought that the combination of the loco’s condition, the time of night and weather together with its swirling exhaust and the small amount of available light encapsulated British Rail’s attitude to hydraulic diesels at the time. 1010 was HFR (Home For Repair) on the 4V03 21.20pm Birmingham Curzon Street-Plymouth parcels, which it worked from Bristol. She had failed at Bristol after working 1V90 13.21pm Liverpool- Plymouth from Gloucester to Bristol on the 3rd. She then underwent maintenance to an engine fault on Bath Road before going home on the 4V03. After arrival at Plymouth she went to Laira until the 8th December for engine repairs.