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A Railwayman's View - BR Western Region by Peter Collins > The End > LPPC DSL BW 0280

 

 

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 0280 The first main-line diesels to appear on the Western Region, in 1958, were a small class of 2000hp locomotives with hydraulic transmission with the A1A-A1A wheel arrangement and built by North British. Given the appellation Warships, this is the second in the class, D601 Ark Royal. They were large and heavy and unreliable and soon succeeded by the iconic D8XX Warships. Ark Royal has seen much better days than this though, as it gradually rots away in a siding at Dai Woodham's famous Barry scrapyard. Perhaps it is a pity that no-one had the foresight to preserve it, even as a static exhibit but apparently no-one considered it worth bothering with. Keywords: BR, Western, Warship, D601, Woodham's Barry Yard, Barry, Scrap, Withdrawn, 1973
LPPC DSL BW 0280 The first main-line diesels to appear on the Western Region, in 1958, were a small class of 2000hp locomotives with hydraulic transmission with the A1A-A1A wheel arrangement and built by North British. Given the appellation Warships, this is the second in the class, D601 Ark Royal. They were large and heavy and unreliable and soon succeeded by the iconic D8XX Warships. Ark Royal has seen much better days than this though, as it gradually rots away in a siding at Dai Woodham's famous Barry scrapyard. Perhaps it is a pity that no-one had the foresight to preserve it, even as a static exhibit but apparently no-one considered it worth bothering with. Keywords: BR, Western, Warship, D601, Woodham's Barry Yard, Barry, Scrap, Withdrawn, 1973
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The first main-line diesels to appear on the Western Region,

in 1958, were a small class of 2000hp locomotives with hydraulic transmission with the A1A-A1A wheel arrangement and built by North British. Given the appellation Warships, this is the second in the class, D601 Ark Royal. They were large and heavy and unreliable and soon succeeded by the iconic D8XX Warships.
Ark Royal has seen much better days than this though, as it gradually rots away in a siding at Dai Woodham's famous Barry scrapyard. Perhaps it is a pity that no-one had the foresight to preserve it, even as a static exhibit but apparently no-one considered it worth bothering with.