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A Railwayman's View - BR Western Region by Peter Collins > West Country > LPPC DSL BW 0634

 

 

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 0634 Exeter St Davids in the early 1970s and a wet Saturday morning witnesses a Southern Region Crompton Class 33 Type 3 adjacent to Peak Class 45 number 72 (later 45050). The former has arrived from London Waterloo via Salisbury and the South Western main line and has just run around its train and reattached ready for the return run to the metropolis. The Peak is at the head of the 1V72 Bradford to Penzance North and West express, or Cross Country as it is now described, having reached Exeter via the Midland’s Derby to Bristol main line and the Lickey Incline. Keywords: BR, Western, Class 33, Class 45, Exeter St Davids, Passenger, 72, 45050, 1V72
LPPC DSL BW 0634 Exeter St Davids in the early 1970s and a wet Saturday morning witnesses a Southern Region Crompton Class 33 Type 3 adjacent to Peak Class 45 number 72 (later 45050). The former has arrived from London Waterloo via Salisbury and the South Western main line and has just run around its train and reattached ready for the return run to the metropolis. The Peak is at the head of the 1V72 Bradford to Penzance North and West express, or Cross Country as it is now described, having reached Exeter via the Midland’s Derby to Bristol main line and the Lickey Incline. Keywords: BR, Western, Class 33, Class 45, Exeter St Davids, Passenger, 72, 45050, 1V72
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Exeter St Davids in the early 1970s and a wet

Saturday morning witnesses a Southern Region Crompton Class 33 Type 3 adjacent to Peak Class 45 number 72 (later 45050). The former has arrived from London Waterloo via Salisbury and the South Western main line and has just run around its train and reattached ready for the return run to the metropolis. The Peak is at the head of the 1V72 Bradford to Penzance North and West express, or Cross Country as it is now described, having reached Exeter via the Midland’s Derby to Bristol main line and the Lickey Incline.