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A Railwayman's View - BR Western Region by Peter Collins > Wales > LPPC DSL BW 0572

 

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 0572 A Saturday in the mid-1970s at Cardiff General station and an unusually smart English Electric Type 3 number 6972 (later 37272/37431) trundles empty coal hoppers along the up through centre road, probably returning from Aberthaw, using the triangular junction behind Canton MPD. These locos were numerous in South Wales for many years and as ubiquitous as their predecessors, the 56XX 0-6-2 tank engines. As always, a number of empty Brutes clutter up the platform in the background. Sometimes these left little room for passengers to make their way to their trains. Keywords: BR, Western, Wales, Class 37, Freight, Coal, Cardiff Central, 6972, 37272, 47431
LPPC DSL BW 0572 A Saturday in the mid-1970s at Cardiff General station and an unusually smart English Electric Type 3 number 6972 (later 37272/37431) trundles empty coal hoppers along the up through centre road, probably returning from Aberthaw, using the triangular junction behind Canton MPD. These locos were numerous in South Wales for many years and as ubiquitous as their predecessors, the 56XX 0-6-2 tank engines. As always, a number of empty Brutes clutter up the platform in the background. Sometimes these left little room for passengers to make their way to their trains. Keywords: BR, Western, Wales, Class 37, Freight, Coal, Cardiff Central, 6972, 37272, 47431
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A Saturday in the mid-1970s at Cardiff General station and

an unusually smart English Electric Type 3 number 6972 (later 37272/37431) trundles empty coal hoppers along the up through centre road, probably returning from Aberthaw, using the triangular junction behind Canton MPD. These locos were numerous in South Wales for many years and as ubiquitous as their predecessors, the 56XX 0-6-2 tank engines. As always, a number of empty Brutes clutter up the platform in the background. Sometimes these left little room for passengers to make their way to their trains.