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A Railwayman's View - BR Western Region by Peter Collins > Wales > LPPC DSL BW 0785

 

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

LPPC DSL BW 0785 An un-fitted rake of coal hoppers clatters through Cardiff General station on a centre road headed by an English Electric Type 3 Class 37 6988 (later 37288/37427)and watched by a clutch of spotters on the platform. The loco is filthy. So much so that it is difficult to discern the yellow nose. However, the Class 37s were worthy replacements for all the various GWR tank locos when it came to shifting many thousands of loaded and empty four-wheeled open wagons around the valleys and lines of South Wales for the best part of two decades. With the disappearance of vacuum-braked passenger rolling-stock, it was always interesting to check the formation of parcels trains. In the left background can be seen both ex-SR and LM vehicles as part of the consist of just such a working. Keywords: BR, Western, Wales, Class 37, Cardiff Central, 6988, 37288, 37427, Coal, Freight, Spotters
LPPC DSL BW 0785 An un-fitted rake of coal hoppers clatters through Cardiff General station on a centre road headed by an English Electric Type 3 Class 37 6988 (later 37288/37427)and watched by a clutch of spotters on the platform. The loco is filthy. So much so that it is difficult to discern the yellow nose. However, the Class 37s were worthy replacements for all the various GWR tank locos when it came to shifting many thousands of loaded and empty four-wheeled open wagons around the valleys and lines of South Wales for the best part of two decades. With the disappearance of vacuum-braked passenger rolling-stock, it was always interesting to check the formation of parcels trains. In the left background can be seen both ex-SR and LM vehicles as part of the consist of just such a working. Keywords: BR, Western, Wales, Class 37, Cardiff Central, 6988, 37288, 37427, Coal, Freight, Spotters
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An un-fitted rake of coal hoppers clatters through Cardiff General

station on a centre road headed by an English Electric Type 3 Class 37 6988 (later 37288/37427)and watched by a clutch of spotters on the platform. The loco is filthy. So much so that it is difficult to discern the yellow nose. However, the Class 37s were worthy replacements for all the various GWR tank locos when it came to shifting many thousands of loaded and empty four-wheeled open wagons around the valleys and lines of South Wales for the best part of two decades. With the disappearance of vacuum-braked passenger rolling-stock, it was always interesting to check the formation of parcels trains. In the left background can be seen both ex-SR and LM vehicles as part of the consist of just such a working.