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A Railwayman's View - BR Western Region by Peter Collins > Shires & Midlands > LPPC DSL BW 0787

 

 

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 0787 One of the WR Brush Type 2 Class 31s, 5826 (later 31293), that seemed such an inadequate replacement for the Hymeks, gingerly creeps through Gloucester Central with an engineer’s train of ballast from the Parkend or Tintern Quarry in the Forest of Dean. The track layout at the rebuilt and remodelled Central station had been greatly simplified and the train is here joining a reversible through line that enabled, through a set of crossings halfway along the platform, two trains to be berthed in the one long platform at the same time. Keywords: BR, Gloucester Central, Western, Class 31, 5826, 31293, Engineers, 8Z37
LPPC DSL BW 0787 One of the WR Brush Type 2 Class 31s, 5826 (later 31293), that seemed such an inadequate replacement for the Hymeks, gingerly creeps through Gloucester Central with an engineer’s train of ballast from the Parkend or Tintern Quarry in the Forest of Dean. The track layout at the rebuilt and remodelled Central station had been greatly simplified and the train is here joining a reversible through line that enabled, through a set of crossings halfway along the platform, two trains to be berthed in the one long platform at the same time. Keywords: BR, Gloucester Central, Western, Class 31, 5826, 31293, Engineers, 8Z37
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One of the WR Brush Type 2 Class 31s, 5826

(later 31293), that seemed such an inadequate replacement for the Hymeks, gingerly creeps through Gloucester Central with an engineer’s train of ballast from the Parkend or Tintern Quarry in the Forest of Dean. The track layout at the rebuilt and remodelled Central station had been greatly simplified and the train is here joining a reversible through line that enabled, through a set of crossings halfway along the platform, two trains to be berthed in the one long platform at the same time.