My son Robert was heading home on the B6179 just South of Swanwick crossroads when he saw this coming the other way heading towards the A38 at Alfreton.
Presumably, it was to take the A38 South because it was travelling from the ‘Midland Railway-Butterley’ to the ‘Severn Valley Railway’.
The images reproduced here do so with his consent for which I thank him.
The locomotive, although non operational, has been cosmetically restored to the livery it carried in 1966 when it was the first of its class to wear it.
At the ‘Severn Valley Railway’ it will join a gathering of three other ‘Westerns’, D1013 Western Ranger, D1015 Western Champion and D1062 Western Courier.
The locomotives will be on display at the SVR’s ‘Autumn Diesel Bash’ (their choice of words) between 28th. September and 1st. October 2023.
It will be the largest gathering of Westerns in over 30 years.
D1048 ‘British Railways’ Western Lady.
Crewe built Diesel Hydraulic Locomotive /1
on Dennis Basford’srailsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’
D1048 ‘British Railways’ Western Lady.
Crewe built Diesel Hydraulic Locomotive /2
on Dennis Basford’srailsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’
No comments:
Post a Comment