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A Railwayman's View - BR Western Region by Peter Collins > Shires & Midlands > LPPC DSL BW 1294

 

 

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

LPPC DSL BW 1294 By the 1980s, the Hereford line was graced with the presence of cascaded Class 50 Co-Cos made redundant on the LMR by electrification. In Spring/Summer 1983 an immaculate 50 031 ‘Hood’ heads a rake of Mark 2Ds, with a Mark 2B BFK at the front, past the site of Newland Engineers Sidings as it approaches the Malvern Hills in the down direction. In steam days this was a bit of a racing ground for Worcester engines on Hereford ex-London portions. I have recorded well over 80mph at this point behind a Hall and the engineers’ sidings were always busy. So much so, that one of the elusive WR PWM 65X series 165hp 0-6-0 shunters was permanently allocated there for many years. The Class 50 had been ‘twinned’ with the HMS Hood Association on 22nd April 1983 at Old Oak Common, where crests were applied above the nameplate. The locomotive survives today and is based at the Severn Valley Railway. Keywords: BR, Western, Class 50, 50031, 'Hood', Malvern, Passenger
LPPC DSL BW 1294 By the 1980s, the Hereford line was graced with the presence of cascaded Class 50 Co-Cos made redundant on the LMR by electrification. In Spring/Summer 1983 an immaculate 50 031 ‘Hood’ heads a rake of Mark 2Ds, with a Mark 2B BFK at the front, past the site of Newland Engineers Sidings as it approaches the Malvern Hills in the down direction. In steam days this was a bit of a racing ground for Worcester engines on Hereford ex-London portions. I have recorded well over 80mph at this point behind a Hall and the engineers’ sidings were always busy. So much so, that one of the elusive WR PWM 65X series 165hp 0-6-0 shunters was permanently allocated there for many years. The Class 50 had been ‘twinned’ with the HMS Hood Association on 22nd April 1983 at Old Oak Common, where crests were applied above the nameplate. The locomotive survives today and is based at the Severn Valley Railway. Keywords: BR, Western, Class 50, 50031, 'Hood', Malvern, Passenger
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By the 1980s, the Hereford line was graced with the

presence of cascaded Class 50 Co-Cos made redundant on the LMR by electrification. In Spring/Summer 1983 an immaculate 50 031 ‘Hood’ heads a rake of Mark 2Ds, with a Mark 2B BFK at the front, past the site of Newland Engineers Sidings as it approaches the Malvern Hills in the down direction. In steam days this was a bit of a racing ground for Worcester engines on Hereford ex-London portions. I have recorded well over 80mph at this point behind a Hall and the engineers’ sidings were always busy. So much so, that one of the elusive WR PWM 65X series 165hp 0-6-0 shunters was permanently allocated there for many years. The Class 50 had been ‘twinned’ with the HMS Hood Association on 22nd April 1983 at Old Oak Common, where crests were applied above the nameplate. The locomotive survives today and is based at the Severn Valley Railway.