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GWR 6142 6100 Class 2-6-2T at Paddington.
This shot although still of poor quality is one of only a few I have of a steam locomotive at Paddington and which after scanning the print I could get anywhere near good enough to show on Flickr. This is fortunate as it is one of my favourites. It shows former GWR 6100 Class 2-6-2T No. 6141 waiting for the road out of Paddington in the early 1960s. This class of engine had until recently been the power for the vast majority of the Paddington Suburban Services but by this time they’d been replaced by DMUs.
I have forgotten the Platform Numbers but these two were where the vast majority of train spotters at Paddington gathered. At weekends and school holidays there were always some of us there and often a lot of us. It should be remembered that at that time the majority of boys were train spotters. I know that most of the lads in my class at school were and many of those that were not were bus spotters. As well as the older lad with a camera note the boy using the saddle of his bike to rest his note book on. Many of us went all over London on our bikes in those days. I first cycled to Paddington from my home in Enfield, North London when I was twelve. Not many parents would allow that today and not many boys would want to do it.
This locomotive was built by the Great Western Railway at its Swindon works in 1932. She was withdrawn from Southall Depot at the end of September 1964 and cut up quickly by the end of November the same year.
GWR 6142 6100 Class 2-6-2T at Paddington.
This shot although still of poor quality is one of only a few I have of a steam locomotive at Paddington and which after scanning the print I could get anywhere near good enough to show on Flickr. This is fortunate as it is one of my favourites. It shows former GWR 6100 Class 2-6-2T No. 6141 waiting for the road out of Paddington in the early 1960s. This class of engine had until recently been the power for the vast majority of the Paddington Suburban Services but by this time they’d been replaced by DMUs.
I have forgotten the Platform Numbers but these two were where the vast majority of train spotters at Paddington gathered. At weekends and school holidays there were always some of us there and often a lot of us. It should be remembered that at that time the majority of boys were train spotters. I know that most of the lads in my class at school were and many of those that were not were bus spotters. As well as the older lad with a camera note the boy using the saddle of his bike to rest his note book on. Many of us went all over London on our bikes in those days. I first cycled to Paddington from my home in Enfield, North London when I was twelve. Not many parents would allow that today and not many boys would want to do it.
This locomotive was built by the Great Western Railway at its Swindon works in 1932. She was withdrawn from Southall Depot at the end of September 1964 and cut up quickly by the end of November the same year.