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PERIOD PIECE

            D1033 Western Trooper will shortly be leaving Paignton. phot taken in the summer of 1976. It had technically lost it's D prefix by this time.
Despite the shadows on part of the locomotve the cab and nameplate stand out, the semaphore and gaslight add to the scene.
I wonder who the inquisitive child is? Does anyone recognise themselves? They would probably be around 52 now an appropriate age for a Western fan maybe]! I spent 2 weeks of that summer in Torbay and had a bedroom which overlooked Torquay station. 
Back in 1973 Trooper was the first Western I saw on the seawall at Teignmouth!
This is part of the Tom Derrington Collection but the photographer is not known. Ihis is a scan of a deteriorating Perutz tranparency. 
   

Taken in: UK / England / Paignton (show map)

Taken on: October 5, 2020

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