Wansanfer Hall
Springtime ‘Trainbow’ appears at Bedwyn !
The 1C82 13.04 service from Paddington to Plymouth passed Bedwyn station at speed on a beautiful, if chilly, spring day. The service consists of two 5 car ‘800’ IET’s, 800 014 (Megan Lloyd George/Edith New) at the front, and 800 008, nicknamed the ‘Trainbow’, resplendent in the LGBTQ Pride colours. Sadly for the shot, this unit was at the rear, and not easy to capture. Let’s also namecheck ‘Alan Turing’, the wartime computer genius who cracked the ‘Enigma’ code which sent out daily instructions from the German High Command. His thanks from the nation was a prosecution for being gay, and treatment with a hormone called ‘Diethylstilbestrol’, in effect, chemical castration.! Good to get two named units together though.
Springtime ‘Trainbow’ appears at Bedwyn !
The 1C82 13.04 service from Paddington to Plymouth passed Bedwyn station at speed on a beautiful, if chilly, spring day. The service consists of two 5 car ‘800’ IET’s, 800 014 (Megan Lloyd George/Edith New) at the front, and 800 008, nicknamed the ‘Trainbow’, resplendent in the LGBTQ Pride colours. Sadly for the shot, this unit was at the rear, and not easy to capture. Let’s also namecheck ‘Alan Turing’, the wartime computer genius who cracked the ‘Enigma’ code which sent out daily instructions from the German High Command. His thanks from the nation was a prosecution for being gay, and treatment with a hormone called ‘Diethylstilbestrol’, in effect, chemical castration.! Good to get two named units together though.