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A Railwayman's View - BR Western Region by Peter Collins > West Country > LPPC DSL BW 0902

 

 

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 0902 In the late 1960s the passenger service on the Falmouth branch was cut back to terminate at this basic station in the town and the crew are changing ends ready to head back to Truro. At the time this shot was taken it was called Falmouth, in 1975 it was renamed The Dell and then, in 1989, it was renamed again to Falmouth Town when the line was reopened, beyond this picture, to its original terminus and probably because no-one could fathom where its former name actually represented. Despite the infrastructure being ‘new’, the reason it doesn’t look that way is because the WR Civil Engineers constructed it of salvaged materials from previously closed stations. The Laira based Class 119 DMU is set LA509 (51079, 59437, 51107) and dates the photo as 1974/5, before the set was transferred to Reading. Keywords: BR, Western, DMU, Class 119, L509, 51079, 59437, 51107, 1974, Falmouth
LPPC DSL BW 0902 In the late 1960s the passenger service on the Falmouth branch was cut back to terminate at this basic station in the town and the crew are changing ends ready to head back to Truro. At the time this shot was taken it was called Falmouth, in 1975 it was renamed The Dell and then, in 1989, it was renamed again to Falmouth Town when the line was reopened, beyond this picture, to its original terminus and probably because no-one could fathom where its former name actually represented. Despite the infrastructure being ‘new’, the reason it doesn’t look that way is because the WR Civil Engineers constructed it of salvaged materials from previously closed stations. The Laira based Class 119 DMU is set LA509 (51079, 59437, 51107) and dates the photo as 1974/5, before the set was transferred to Reading. Keywords: BR, Western, DMU, Class 119, L509, 51079, 59437, 51107, 1974, Falmouth
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In the late 1960s the passenger service on the Falmouth

branch was cut back to terminate at this basic station in the town and the crew are changing ends ready to head back to Truro. At the time this shot was taken it was called Falmouth, in 1975 it was renamed The Dell and then, in 1989, it was renamed again to Falmouth Town when the line was reopened, beyond this picture, to its original terminus and probably because no-one could fathom where its former name actually represented. Despite the infrastructure being ‘new’, the reason it doesn’t look that way is because the WR Civil Engineers constructed it of salvaged materials from previously closed stations. The Laira based Class 119 DMU is set LA509 (51079, 59437, 51107) and dates the photo as 1974/5, before the set was transferred to Reading.