Phot For The Day
Refuelling Symmetry
Today back to my UK railway archives, and a theme of "Westerns"..... and not the ones starring Clint Eastwood or John Wayne - but Diesel Hydraulic locomotives of the Western Region of British Railways.
A real shame that this shot is just off focus from the Class 47 onwards. Late afternoon in early September 1972.
There were four Westerns, this 47 and a 50 on the stabling point. A few minutes later one of the last surviving Warships trundled in. I can remember this day like it was yesterday. I was 15 and had been allowed to go to London on my own for the first time with a gang of friends on a low priced special train from Warrington Bank Quay. Upon being granted permission to make the trip I immediately wrote to Stratford depot to request a visit permit and to my surprise within a week it dropped through the letterbox. I was a hero with the whole gang for a few days....
It must have been noisy living in those adjacent flats (apartments).
Refuelling Symmetry
Today back to my UK railway archives, and a theme of "Westerns"..... and not the ones starring Clint Eastwood or John Wayne - but Diesel Hydraulic locomotives of the Western Region of British Railways.
A real shame that this shot is just off focus from the Class 47 onwards. Late afternoon in early September 1972.
There were four Westerns, this 47 and a 50 on the stabling point. A few minutes later one of the last surviving Warships trundled in. I can remember this day like it was yesterday. I was 15 and had been allowed to go to London on my own for the first time with a gang of friends on a low priced special train from Warrington Bank Quay. Upon being granted permission to make the trip I immediately wrote to Stratford depot to request a visit permit and to my surprise within a week it dropped through the letterbox. I was a hero with the whole gang for a few days....
It must have been noisy living in those adjacent flats (apartments).