Some photos from a warm and sunny day at Old Oak Common HST Depot in West London today, celebrating 111 years of OOC and the Legends of the GWR. The site will be redeveloped soon, so was a last chance to get together a number of the locomotive types that have been associated with the depot.
The green 57 has just come out from a fresh repaint this week. It is named "Pendennis Castle."
The 50's in the line up are:
50 050 Fearless 50 049 Defiance 50 044 Exeter 50 026 Indomitable 50 017 Royal Oak 50 007 Hercules (formerly Brunswick green "Sir Edward Elgar")
The other 50 in the Legends line is 50 035 "Ark Royal."
My mate took a photo of me next to 50 044. It is a kind of "30 years on" photo, as I have a photo of me in the cab of this very loco at Newquay station in July 87. The driver and guard were eating their lunch on the bench on the platform said "do you want to go in the cab." They continued eating their lunch whilst my brother and I looked around inside the cab. We were 8 and 12 years old. Doubt that would ever happen now.
FGR2 wrote:Some photos from a warm and sunny day at Old Oak Common HST Depot in West London today, celebrating 111 years of OOC and the Legends of the GWR. The site will be redeveloped soon, so was a last chance to get together a number of the locomotive types that have been associated with the depot.
Fantastic report! Unfortunately i could not get to this event, and as my brother used to be a driver at Old Oak Common, was there a Commemorative brochure/programme from the event, as i would love to get hold of one for him. Cheers
Great selection there. Just me but cannot see any 31's there, Being from Dorchester (Dorset) we used to have a 31 hauled train from Bristol to Weymouth through around 7-50 in the morning and 6-30 at night mostly 31's from Bristol (BR) but sometimes had a rare visitor from OOC. even rarer was a 31-0 on the service.
OOC A by Lee Linley, on Flickr
OOC B by Lee Linley, on Flickr
OOC C by Lee Linley, on Flickr
OOC D by Lee Linley, on Flickr
OOC E by Lee Linley, on Flickr
OOC F by Lee Linley, on Flickr
OOC G by Lee Linley, on Flickr
OOC H by Lee Linley, on Flickr
OOC J by Lee Linley, on Flickr
OOC K by Lee Linley, on Flickr
OOC L by Lee Linley, on Flickr
OOC M by Lee Linley, on Flickr
OOC N by Lee Linley, on Flickr
OOC O by Lee Linley, on Flickr
Panorama by Lee Linley, on Flickr
