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GWR Route: Banbury to Wolverhampton
GWR Route: North Warwickshire Line
Birmingham Snow Hill - British Railways Period Locomotives:
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British Railways C0-Co Western class D1001 'Western
Pathfinder' is seen standing at Platform 7 on an up express service to
Paddington in late 1962. Built at Swindon in February 1962 D1001 was first
allocated to Laira shed in Plymouth before being transferred to Old Oak Common
in October 1962 before returning to Laira shed in March 1964. Another transfer,
this time to Swansea Landore in January 1968, again took D1001 away but it
again returned to Plymouth Laira in February 1970. Finally it was withdrawn
from service due to its' B end being damaged in a collision with
a BR van in October 1976 having completed 1,264,000 miles in service.
Initially the class were to be named after West Country
beauty spots and the suggestion was that number D1000 was to become 'Cheddar
Gorge' before this proposal was dropped in favour of the 'Western' names. The
class also became the subject of various livery experiments. The first
'Western', D1000 Western Enterprise, was outshopped in a unique desert sand
livery with wheels, roofpanels, bogies and window frames in black. Buffer beams
and front skirts were painted in carmine red. The second 'Western' locomotive,
D1001 Western Pathfinder, was delivered in a maroon livery with window frames
in white while the buffer beams and front skirts were in yellow.
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