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London : Westminster - Railway & Building
A building beside the railway as the train reaches Paddington Station.
Image: © Lewis Clarke
Taken: 9 Aug 2011
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Empty stock coming into Paddington Station
View westward from Platform 4/5, outwards from the terminus under Bishop's Road Bridge. Hawksworth '1500' class 0-6-0T No. 1506 (built 9/49, withdrawn 12/63) is bringing the stock into Platform 3 from Old Oak Common Carriage Depot. Behind is the Departure Signalbox and the Parcels Station: ahead is Westbourne Bridge and to the right Paddington Goods Station.
Image: © Ben Brooksbank
Taken: 28 Jul 1962
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'6100' class 2-6-2T by Paddington Arrival Signalbox
View on Platform 7 towards buffers along No. 8: the Arrival side of the great ex-GWR London Terminus. Collett '6100' class No. 6157 is one of the whole class of 70 that worked the suburban services; it was built 3/33, withdrawn 5/62. Bishops Road Bridge is above.
Image: © Ben Brooksbank
Taken: 4 Jun 1959
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'County' 4-6-0 backs out empty stock from Paddington Station
Backing out of Platform 9 or 10 with stock of a local train is Hawksworth' County' 4-6-0 No. 1004 'County of Somerset', built 10/45, withdrawn 9/62 - the first to go. Behind is the massive Paddington Goods station.
Image: © Ben Brooksbank
Taken: 23 May 1958
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Paddington Station, exit on Departure side 1953
View westward from the end of Platforms 4/5 underneath Bishops Road Bridge to Westbourne Bridge. On the left is the Departure Box and beyond it the Parcels station. Several locomotives are coming and going, the nearest being 2-6-2T No. 6119.
Image: © Ben Brooksbank
Taken: 25 Jul 1953
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HST at Paddington
GWR's retro-liveried High Speed Train power car No. 43002 approaches Paddington with a service from Swansea.
Image: © Gareth James
Taken: 10 May 2017
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Empty stock train entering Paddington
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by the first of the new small group of outside-cylinder 0-6-0Ts introduced by Hawksworth in 1949, No. 1500 (built 6/49, withdrawn 12/63), the train has come from Old Oak Common Yard over the flyover at Ladbroke Grove.
Image: © Ben Brooksbank
Taken: 3 Aug 1963
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The (former) 'Cheltenham Flyer' prepares to leave Paddington
View eastward, towards the buffer-stops on Platform 1; ex-GWR main line London terminus. 'Castle' 4-6-0 No. 7006 'Lydford Castle' (built 6/46, withdrawn 12/63) is beside the Parcels platform extending out from Platform 1, with the 16.55 to Cheltenham (St James) (due 19.40) - first stop Kemble.
Image: © Ben Brooksbank
Taken: 16 Feb 1951
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'County' 4-6-0 about to leave Paddington with a Worcester line express
This is the 13.45 departure, calling at Reading, Didcot, Oxford and principal stations via Worcester to Hereford (due 18.25 - rather a slow journey). Hawksworth 'County' No. 1017 'County of Hereford' was built 3/46, has yet to receive its smokebox number-plate and later a double-chimney; it was withdrawn 12/62. The train is at Platform 1 with the locomotive out beside the extension leading to the parcels station.
Image: © Ben Brooksbank
Taken: 24 Apr 1948
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Ex-GWR condenser-fitted 0-6-0 Pannier tank at Paddington
Supplementing the converted No. 8700 (renumbered No. 9700), ten of the Collett '8750' class 0-6-0PTs were built new in 1933 for the traffic on the Metropolitan Underground route from Paddington to Smithfield, with condensing apparatus and other modifications. No. 9701 (built 9/33, withdrawn 1/61) is seen here off the end the Arrival platforms at Paddington, with the great Goods Station behind, beyond the electrified Hammersmith & City lines.
Image: © Ben Brooksbank
Taken: 25 Aug 1956
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