Outside Paddington Station, 1960
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Outside Paddington Station, 1960
Image: © Alan Murray-Rust Taken: Unknown
A variety of locomotives waiting to take up duty, mainly for empty stock working out to Old Oak Common depot. The nearer locomotive is one of the 9400 class and represents the final development of the pannier style tank locomotive for shunting duties, developed as late as 1948, and mainly built under the British Railways regime. Next to it is one of the 5100 class large prairie 2-6-2 tank locomotives. This may well be waiting to take a commuter service out of Paddington rather than empty stock. Also of interest is the passenger vehicle visible to the left. This is distinctively of LNER origin and some way from its normal territory. It is standing in the long parcels bay which extended out beyond platform 1 of Paddington Station.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.518503
Longitude
-0.181955