Prototype Tim Mills' Photos

[oldravendale]

Wow, Andy. You are persistent in your searching and I remain very grateful. Thanks again.

I don’t have a date for this, or indeed an identification of the locos but it’s clearly Bulleid Pacifics at the buffer stops at Waterloo Station, a scene I remember so well.



Original West Country 34019 Bideford at Waterloo in the 1960s. The loco was allocated to Salisbury in August/September 1963, then Feltham in August/September 1964 and Eastleigh in November the same year finally going to Nine Elms in June 1966. It was withdrawn in March 1967 (SLS) and was disposed of at Cashmore’s, Newport, in September 1967. (BR Database).



A classic view of an unidentified rebuilt Bulleid Pacific leaving Waterloo in the 1960s with PW men working in the foreground.



Brian

 

[AJC]

Those Waterloo shots are splendid, lovely light under the roof. The orange vest on the left hand P Way man is a bit surprising, but they were around that early (just). The repeated 'lore' (no references given, but I know a man who'll have them), relates to the first use being a trial around Glasgow in 1964 which gives us a terminus pre quem for the picture: The History of Hi-Vis Clothing

Actual memories from staff relate to the '70s, quoted here: Linesmen in Clapham (1976) - An example of early PPE?

Adam