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A Railwayman's View - BR Western Region by Peter Collins > Shires & Midlands > LPPC DSL BW 0976

 

 

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 0976 A sunny Saturday morning around 1970 and a visit to Gloucester Horton Road motive power depot finds a Hymek Class 35 D7098 stabled with a Peak Class 45 number 74 (later 45051). A further Peak rests in the depot yard beyond. The locomotives are all in fine fettle and look not long out of works. Once steam was eliminated from British Rail, in the fever of modernisation all remaining locomotives had their D or E prefixes deleted, even to the crass lengths of painting over the cast Ds on Hymeks! This was an initial step at renumbering before the computerisation heralded by TOPS required a totally new numbering scheme for the whole BR motive power fleet. At this time Gloucester still boasted two stations, Central, which coped with what were essentially ex Western Region services and Eastgate which was still very much Midland Region focussed, hence the mixture of WR and LMR locos. Keywords: BR, Western, Gloucester, Horton Roadm 85B, Depot, Shed, Class 35, Hymek, D7098, Class 45, 74, 45051, 1970
LPPC DSL BW 0976 A sunny Saturday morning around 1970 and a visit to Gloucester Horton Road motive power depot finds a Hymek Class 35 D7098 stabled with a Peak Class 45 number 74 (later 45051). A further Peak rests in the depot yard beyond. The locomotives are all in fine fettle and look not long out of works. Once steam was eliminated from British Rail, in the fever of modernisation all remaining locomotives had their D or E prefixes deleted, even to the crass lengths of painting over the cast Ds on Hymeks! This was an initial step at renumbering before the computerisation heralded by TOPS required a totally new numbering scheme for the whole BR motive power fleet. At this time Gloucester still boasted two stations, Central, which coped with what were essentially ex Western Region services and Eastgate which was still very much Midland Region focussed, hence the mixture of WR and LMR locos. Keywords: BR, Western, Gloucester, Horton Roadm 85B, Depot, Shed, Class 35, Hymek, D7098, Class 45, 74, 45051, 1970
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A sunny Saturday morning around 1970 and a visit to

Gloucester Horton Road motive power depot finds a Hymek Class 35 D7098 stabled with a Peak Class 45 number 74 (later 45051). A further Peak rests in the depot yard beyond. The locomotives are all in fine fettle and look not long out of works. Once steam was eliminated from British Rail, in the fever of modernisation all remaining locomotives had their D or E prefixes deleted, even to the crass lengths of painting over the cast Ds on Hymeks! This was an initial step at renumbering before the computerisation heralded by TOPS required a totally new numbering scheme for the whole BR motive power fleet. At this time Gloucester still boasted two stations, Central, which coped with what were essentially ex Western Region services and Eastgate which was still very much Midland Region focussed, hence the mixture of WR and LMR locos.