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A Railwayman's View - BR Western Region by Peter Collins > West Country > LPPC DSL BW 0623

 

 

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

LPPC DSL BW 0623 The Swindon-built Cross Country Class 120 DMUs were designed with distinctive two-window front-ends that, whether deliberate or not, incorporated a retro, GWR railcar look. This (Set 530 - 51578, 59580, 51587) one is waiting time at Bristol Temple Meads before heading south to Weston-super-Mare on a Saturday afternoon. In the right background, parcels GUVs and CCTs are waiting in the part of the station that was given the fictional title of Mallingford at the end of the 1953 comedy film ‘Titfield Thunderbolt’, starring John Gregson and Stanley Holloway, after the train had won its race with the motor-coach. Keywords: BR, Western, Bristol Temple Meads, Passenger, Class 120, 530, DMU
LPPC DSL BW 0623 The Swindon-built Cross Country Class 120 DMUs were designed with distinctive two-window front-ends that, whether deliberate or not, incorporated a retro, GWR railcar look. This (Set 530 - 51578, 59580, 51587) one is waiting time at Bristol Temple Meads before heading south to Weston-super-Mare on a Saturday afternoon. In the right background, parcels GUVs and CCTs are waiting in the part of the station that was given the fictional title of Mallingford at the end of the 1953 comedy film ‘Titfield Thunderbolt’, starring John Gregson and Stanley Holloway, after the train had won its race with the motor-coach. Keywords: BR, Western, Bristol Temple Meads, Passenger, Class 120, 530, DMU
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The Swindon-built Cross Country Class 120 DMUs were designed with

distinctive two-window front-ends that, whether deliberate or not, incorporated a retro, GWR railcar look. This (Set 530 - 51578, 59580, 51587) one is waiting time at Bristol Temple Meads before heading south to Weston-super-Mare on a Saturday afternoon. In the right background, parcels GUVs and CCTs are waiting in the part of the station that was given the fictional title of Mallingford at the end of the 1953 comedy film ‘Titfield Thunderbolt’, starring John Gregson and Stanley Holloway, after the train had won its race with the motor-coach.