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<u>British Railways diesel</u><br>This is the original experimental A.C.V./B.U.T. diesel mechanical railbus which by this time, 1955, had received lined green livery having originally been painted in an attractive two tone grey . Several viewers have pointed out that the unit is depicted at St. Albans Abbey station with the town gas works at the right hand side of the image and that the railbus was working on the route from Watford.<br>John Isherwood prompted me to investigate this subject which elicited coverage of the units' history in <a href=http://www.railcar.co.uk/hisOthers/ACVintro.htm><u><font color=blue>this web site</a></u></font>.<br>Brian Easter has put some flesh on the bones regarding the locale: <i>The signals at the end of the platform indicate two routes, the left hand arm for the line to Hatfield, closed in the 60s </i>(note, I think it closed to passengers in 1951)<i> and the right hand arm for Watford. This line is now electrified and a class 313 EMU now provides the service.</i>
British Railways diesel
This is the original experimental A.C.V./B.U.T. diesel mechanical railbus which by this time, 1955, had received lined green livery having originally been painted in an attractive two tone grey . Several viewers have pointed out that the unit is depicted at St. Albans Abbey station with the town gas works at the right hand side of the image and that the railbus was working on the route from Watford.
John Isherwood prompted me to investigate this subject which elicited coverage of the units' history in this web site.
Brian Easter has put some flesh on the bones regarding the locale: The signals at the end of the platform indicate two routes, the left hand arm for the line to Hatfield, closed in the 60s (note, I think it closed to passengers in 1951) and the right hand arm for Watford. This line is now electrified and a class 313 EMU now provides the service.
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<u>British Railways diesel</u><br>A Bulleid design but built in 1949 is this 1-Co-Co-1 diesel electric loco number 10201 photographed near Kenton but the date isn't known. However, the livery (seemingly ex-works) is BR passenger lined green with the later logo which suggests that it's 1957 or later. Mention is made in a web article that when this livery was first applied the roof was painted primrose yellow but there's no evidence of that here and so it must be a later repaint than that.Previous | Next<u>British Railways steam</u><br>Gresley A3 pacific 60097 <i>Humorist</i> was a bit of an oddball in that she was the testbed for experiments with Kylchap exhaust, double chimney and smoke deflectors as far back as 1937. However, the condition in which she's depicted here is purely BR in origin as she was fitted with Peppercorn A2 style smoke deflectors in 1949 but it would be nearly a decade before many of the other A3's would be enhanced with double chimneys and a very different style of deflectors. This shot was taken at Carlisle canal shed in 1963 and one suspects that she had already reached the end of her operational days as she was officially withdrawn from 64A St. Margaret's in August of that year.

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