Empty stock train entering Paddington
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Empty stock train entering Paddington
Image: © Ben Brooksbank Taken: 3 Aug 1963
View westward from the end of the long Platform 8/9, outward as far as Westbourne Bridge, with behind the train the long Parcels Platform extending from No. 1. Headed by the first of the new small group of outside-cylinder 0-6-0Ts introduced by Hawksworth in 1949, No. 1500 (built 6/49, withdrawn 12/63), the train has come from Old Oak Common Yard over the flyover at Ladbroke Grove.
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Image Location
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51.518215
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