Last of the Class..
Taken in about 1962..
BTH Type 1 D8243 at Liverpool Street station in around 1962. It had entered service in 1961, and was withdrawn in 1969, and converted for departmental use as carriage heating unit ADB96800:
www.flickr.com/photos/rgadsdon/28480834324
It was finally scrapped in 1991, but one of the class has survived, and is currently (2023) the subject of a long-term restoration project..
Liverpool Street station was substantially rebuilt in the mid-late-1980s, and today, these tracks are subterranean, and there are now further 'redevelopment' plans proposed..
Restored from an orange/magenta-colour-shifted original..
Original slide - property of Robert Gadsdon
Last of the Class..
Taken in about 1962..
BTH Type 1 D8243 at Liverpool Street station in around 1962. It had entered service in 1961, and was withdrawn in 1969, and converted for departmental use as carriage heating unit ADB96800:
www.flickr.com/photos/rgadsdon/28480834324
It was finally scrapped in 1991, but one of the class has survived, and is currently (2023) the subject of a long-term restoration project..
Liverpool Street station was substantially rebuilt in the mid-late-1980s, and today, these tracks are subterranean, and there are now further 'redevelopment' plans proposed..
Restored from an orange/magenta-colour-shifted original..
Original slide - property of Robert Gadsdon