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  Worcester Park 6th September  2008

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Train 6N36   Train 6N37 (this page) 
 
 
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EWS locomotive 66147 enters Worcester Park station with train 6N37 from Hoo Junction on 6th September 2008.  The dull wet nature of the weather that day can clearly be seen in this view.
 
 
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Locomotive 66147 progresses through Worcester Park station with train 6N37 carrying new concrete sleepers.
    
     
  On this day train 6N37 consisted of:  
 

Locomotive  
Wagon  
Wagon  
Wagon  
Wagon  
Wagon  
Wagon  
Wagon  
Wagon  
Wagon  
Wagon  
Wagon  
Wagon  
Wagon  
Wagon  

66147
110687 OBA
DC 967581 YQA
DC 967538 YQA
DC 967594 YQA
DC 967618 YQA
DC 967526 YQA
DC 967519 YQA
DC 967633 YQA
DC 967574 YQA
DC 967822 YQA
DC 967533 YQA
DC 967623 YQA
112144 OCA
100033 OAA

 
     

   
 
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EWS 66147 passes under Worcester Park station footbridge with train 6N37.  This class 66 locomotive was built at London, Ontario, in Canada by the Electro-Motive Division of General Motors (GM-EMD).
  
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The first vehicle in train 6N37 was type OBA wagon110687.  This was built by BR at Shildon as part of lot 3930.
 

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The second vehicle in train 6N37 was type YQA wagon DC 967581.  This was built by BR at Shildon in 1981 as part of lot 4012.  The wagon type is known as "Parr".

    
 
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The makers plate of type YQA wagon DC 967581.
 

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Lettering detail of type YQA wagon DC 967581.
 

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The 12th vehicle in the train was type YQA wagon DC 967623.

 
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Next came type OCA wagon 112144, built by BR at Shildon as part of lot 4014.
  
 
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Bringing up the rear of the train was type OAA wagon 100033, built by BR at Ashford as part of lot 3727.  The original wooden side doors were replaced by open mesh ones some years before this photograph was taken when the wagon carried bagged products from the Foster Yeoman stone quarry at Merehead in Somerset.
  
 
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A final view as 66147 heads towards the work site with train 6N37.
 


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