The carthorse of the rails
"Peak" no. 45 026, seen at the west end of Weston-super-Mare station on Friday 7th November 1975. It was probably "running round", for it hauled me back to Bristol aboard the 14:30 to Cardiff ...superpower for a secondary service, but presumably tied in with the diagrams for more prestigious work. TOPS renumbering had now overtaken my last attempts to keep up with it, so I am unable to give the locomotive's "real" number and true identity. I'm sure somebody'll know. The Peaks were early casualties when new types were introduced, condemned, like the Class 40s, by their weight and many-axled, 1Co-Co1 bogies.
The carthorse of the rails
"Peak" no. 45 026, seen at the west end of Weston-super-Mare station on Friday 7th November 1975. It was probably "running round", for it hauled me back to Bristol aboard the 14:30 to Cardiff ...superpower for a secondary service, but presumably tied in with the diagrams for more prestigious work. TOPS renumbering had now overtaken my last attempts to keep up with it, so I am unable to give the locomotive's "real" number and true identity. I'm sure somebody'll know. The Peaks were early casualties when new types were introduced, condemned, like the Class 40s, by their weight and many-axled, 1Co-Co1 bogies.