Class 22 at Par

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Class 22 at Par
Class 22 at Par

A scan from one of the negatives taken with my Brownie 127 camera. An unidentified Class 22 at Par hauling clay hoods and about to take the Newquay branch. I think the date is 14 August 1968 and I was waiting, with my family, for our train back to Cardiff after a week's holiday in Cornwall. I have my notebook for this day, but, for some unaccountable reason, I neglected to record the number of the loco in my picture.

I did fully record the journey back to Cardiff, however. From Par we boarded 1M95 Penzance-Manchester, hauled by D822 "Hercules". D822 came off at Plymouth, and was replaced by D1067 "Western Druid"; D816 "Eclipse" was added as a pilot over the South Devon banks as far as Newton Abbot. 1M95 was routed into Newport station, where we left the train. D1067 also came off here, and was replaced, at the other end of the train, by D1690. After a short wait our train for Cardiff arrived behind Hymek D7091. This was the 14.35 Bristol TM - Cardiff. Reading these notes now, 52 years later, I wonder why I made no attempt to photograph D822, D1067, D816 or D7098??

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Taken on: August 14, 1968
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