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A Railwayman's View - BR Western Region by Peter Collins > West Country > LPPC DSL BW 0397

 

 

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 0397 The motive-power depot at Laira, Plymouth on a cold, wet, Saturday morning on 24th March 1973. Two Western Class 52 diesel hydraulics are stabled awaiting their next turns of duty whilst, in the far background, a Class 31 Brush Type 2 is a harbinger of what is yet to come on the WR. After a plea on social media we believe that the front Western is D1062 ‘Western Courier’ which had undergone some fitter’s attention. The Class 31 in the background may be 5827, in green livery, which was allocated to Laira for crew training purposes around this time, and may have been the first Class 31 to reach Cornwall in June of the same year. Keywords: BR, Western, Class 52, Class 31, 5827, D1062, 'Western Courier', 31294, Laira, Plymouth, Shed, Depot
LPPC DSL BW 0397 The motive-power depot at Laira, Plymouth on a cold, wet, Saturday morning on 24th March 1973. Two Western Class 52 diesel hydraulics are stabled awaiting their next turns of duty whilst, in the far background, a Class 31 Brush Type 2 is a harbinger of what is yet to come on the WR. After a plea on social media we believe that the front Western is D1062 ‘Western Courier’ which had undergone some fitter’s attention. The Class 31 in the background may be 5827, in green livery, which was allocated to Laira for crew training purposes around this time, and may have been the first Class 31 to reach Cornwall in June of the same year. Keywords: BR, Western, Class 52, Class 31, 5827, D1062, 'Western Courier', 31294, Laira, Plymouth, Shed, Depot
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The motive-power depot at Laira, Plymouth on a cold, wet,

Saturday morning on 24th March 1973. Two Western Class 52 diesel hydraulics are stabled awaiting their next turns of duty whilst, in the far background, a Class 31 Brush Type 2 is a harbinger of what is yet to come on the WR. After a plea on social media we believe that the front Western is D1062 ‘Western Courier’ which had undergone some fitter’s attention. The Class 31 in the background may be 5827, in green livery, which was allocated to Laira for crew training purposes around this time, and may have been the first Class 31 to reach Cornwall in June of the same year.