Image 50046, 11.10 Plymouth-Manchester Piccadilly (1M22), Bristol Temple Meads station
50046, 11.10 Plymouth-Manchester Piccadilly (1M22), Bristol Temple Meads station
50046, 11.10 Plymouth-Manchester Piccadilly (1M22), Bristol Temple Meads station 50046 'Ajax' waits at Bristol Temple Meads leading the 1M22 11.10 Plymouth to Manchester Piccadilly. 50046 was named approximately eight weeks prior to this image being taken, indeed it was the penultimate member of the class to be named. However, notice that the BR double arrow emblem has yet to be moved to the cab end as was the practice when the plates were applied. It is likely that the 50 will have hauled the train as far as Gloucester where another diesel may have taken over or to Birmingham New Street where an AC electric will have taken it on. The loco. is standing under the Royal Mail's covered conveyor that carried mail bags over to the large sorting office adjacent to the station. Unfortunately, after closure, this building derelict and vandalised blighted Temple Meads and this part of Bristol for over twenty years. Thankfully, it has now been demolished to make way for a new university campus building. Finally, notice the gummed destination label stuck to the droplight of the leading Mk.1. Did many of you, like me, collect these as mementoes? Amazingly, some forty years later, they are still used but in a slightly different form on ECML trains! Keywords: 50046 11.10 Plymouth-Manchester Piccadilly 1M22 Bristol Temple Meads station
50046, 11.10 Plymouth-Manchester Piccadilly (1M22), Bristol Temple Meads station 50046 'Ajax' waits at Bristol Temple Meads leading the 1M22 11.10 Plymouth to Manchester Piccadilly. 50046 was named approximately eight weeks prior to this image being taken, indeed it was the penultimate member of the class to be named. However, notice that the BR double arrow emblem has yet to be moved to the cab end as was the practice when the plates were applied. It is likely that the 50 will have hauled the train as far as Gloucester where another diesel may have taken over or to Birmingham New Street where an AC electric will have taken it on. The loco. is standing under the Royal Mail's covered conveyor that carried mail bags over to the large sorting office adjacent to the station. Unfortunately, after closure, this building derelict and vandalised blighted Temple Meads and this part of Bristol for over twenty years. Thankfully, it has now been demolished to make way for a new university campus building. Finally, notice the gummed destination label stuck to the droplight of the leading Mk.1. Did many of you, like me, collect these as mementoes? Amazingly, some forty years later, they are still used but in a slightly different form on ECML trains! Keywords: 50046 11.10 Plymouth-Manchester Piccadilly 1M22 Bristol Temple Meads station


50046 'Ajax' waits at Bristol Temple Meads leading the 1M22

11.10 Plymouth to Manchester Piccadilly. 50046 was named approximately eight weeks prior to this image being taken, indeed it was the penultimate member of the class to be named. However, notice that the BR double arrow emblem has yet to be moved to the cab end as was the practice when the plates were applied. It is likely that the 50 will have hauled the train as far as Gloucester where another diesel may have taken over or to Birmingham New Street where an AC electric will have taken it on. The loco. is standing under the Royal Mail's covered conveyor that carried mail bags over to the large sorting office adjacent to the station. Unfortunately, after closure, this building derelict and vandalised blighted Temple Meads and this part of Bristol for over twenty years. Thankfully, it has now been demolished to make way for a new university campus building. Finally, notice the gummed destination label stuck to the droplight of the leading Mk.1. Did many of you, like me, collect these as mementoes? Amazingly, some forty years later, they are still used but in a slightly different form on ECML trains!