'Glory' Days - a photo on Flickriver

'Glory' Days

            There must have been a riot at New Street when this rolled in on the afternoon of 23rd August 1975: 1M85, Penzance - Liverpool, at this time was a booked Class 50 turn from Plymouth, but the allocated 'Hoover' must have failed and so Laira turned out a 'Western'. Whether this was due to the poor relations between the Western and London Midland Region's at the time will never be known, but the WR knew that the LMR could not 'borrow' the 'Western' because lack of traction knowledge. Suffice to say it did not return on the booked working, no doubt because the WR-based driver was out-of-hours and there was no one else available. Certainly the appearance of No. 1072 'Western Glory' made my afternoon, having turned out expecting a 'Hoover', as no doubt did those at New Street. The train is approaching Pritchatts Road which crosses both the railway and the Birmingham & Worcester Canal at this point. Note the bridge in the background which is now the site of  the busy University station. The line has since been electrified and is part of Birmingham's Cross City Line. Copyright Photograph John Whitehouse - all rights reserved
   

Taken on: August 23, 1975

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1072

Western-Glory

Diesel-Hydraulic

Pritchatts-Road

University-station

Birmingham-University

1M85

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Sets appears in: • Class 52: The Westerns in BR Service • 1975

Groups appears in: • Hydraulic Locos of The Western Region • Railways in Monochrome more » • Rail UK: West Midlands County Railways « less

Camera: Epson PerfectionV700 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Epson PerfectionV700
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	Photos 2.0
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