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A Railwayman's View - BR Western Region by Peter Collins > Shires & Midlands > LPPC DSL BW 1127

 

 

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 1127 A Brush Type 2 Class 31 number D5823 (later 31291/31456/31556) heads a loose-coupled freight north through Ashchurch. This is exactly the type of traffic of which British Rail was trying obsessively to rid itself of. At the point where the crossover is visible there were originally two converging branch lines. From the left was a loop line from Barnt Green via Evesham and from the right the line from Malvern Wells that came via Upton upon Severn and Tewkesbury. The locomotive appears to have been involved in some sort of front-end collision given the large dent in the right-hand nose door. Keywords: BR, Western, Ashchurch, Freight, 8M99, Collision Damage, D5823, 31291, 31456, 31556, Class 31
LPPC DSL BW 1127 A Brush Type 2 Class 31 number D5823 (later 31291/31456/31556) heads a loose-coupled freight north through Ashchurch. This is exactly the type of traffic of which British Rail was trying obsessively to rid itself of. At the point where the crossover is visible there were originally two converging branch lines. From the left was a loop line from Barnt Green via Evesham and from the right the line from Malvern Wells that came via Upton upon Severn and Tewkesbury. The locomotive appears to have been involved in some sort of front-end collision given the large dent in the right-hand nose door. Keywords: BR, Western, Ashchurch, Freight, 8M99, Collision Damage, D5823, 31291, 31456, 31556, Class 31
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A Brush Type 2 Class 31 number D5823 (later 31291/31456/31556)

heads a loose-coupled freight north through Ashchurch. This is exactly the type of traffic of which British Rail was trying obsessively to rid itself of. At the point where the crossover is visible there were originally two converging branch lines. From the left was a loop line from Barnt Green via Evesham and from the right the line from Malvern Wells that came via Upton upon Severn and Tewkesbury. The locomotive appears to have been involved in some sort of front-end collision given the large dent in the right-hand nose door.