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A Railwayman's View - BR Western Region by Peter Collins > The End > LPPC DSL BW 0967

 

 

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

LPPC DSL BW 0967 Forlorn and unloved, Warship Class 43 number 852 ‘Tenacious,’ no longer living up to its name, languishes in the scrapyard at Swindon Works on a cold and misty winter’s day, with only a Collett tender and a Diesel Brake Tender for company. The very short wheelbase wagon in the foreground looks like a mobile-crane match-wagon. We tend to think of the very short lives of some of the Standard classes of steam locomotive as scandalous, but the elimination at all costs of diesel-hydraulics after a decade of use should be considered equally wasteful. Keywords: BR, Western, Scrap, Swindon Works, Withdrawn, 852, 'Tenacious', Class 43
LPPC DSL BW 0967 Forlorn and unloved, Warship Class 43 number 852 ‘Tenacious,’ no longer living up to its name, languishes in the scrapyard at Swindon Works on a cold and misty winter’s day, with only a Collett tender and a Diesel Brake Tender for company. The very short wheelbase wagon in the foreground looks like a mobile-crane match-wagon. We tend to think of the very short lives of some of the Standard classes of steam locomotive as scandalous, but the elimination at all costs of diesel-hydraulics after a decade of use should be considered equally wasteful. Keywords: BR, Western, Scrap, Swindon Works, Withdrawn, 852, 'Tenacious', Class 43
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Forlorn and unloved, Warship Class 43 number 852 ‘Tenacious,’ no

longer living up to its name, languishes in the scrapyard at Swindon Works on a cold and misty winter’s day, with only a Collett tender and a Diesel Brake Tender for company. The very short wheelbase wagon in the foreground looks like a mobile-crane match-wagon. We tend to think of the very short lives of some of the Standard classes of steam locomotive as scandalous, but the elimination at all costs of diesel-hydraulics after a decade of use should be considered equally wasteful.