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Passenger Operations at Paddington Station - Part 6
p.303
The story of Paddington's passenger operations reaches its penultimate episode, beginning in the immediate postwar era and covering the period until the mid-1950s.
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Stationary at Paddington
p.337
Bob Crump recounts some of his experiences firing passenger trains in and out of Paddington.
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GWR Horse Traffic and Horseboxes - Part 2
p.339
John Lewis introduces the second part of his horsebox study by considering the individual vehicles, starting with those older 'boxes built between 1870 and 1901 (Diagrams N1 to 9). None of these survived beyond the Second World War, but, as we shall see, they set out the standards to which the later diagrams largely conformed.
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Cattle Pens
p.351
Drawing No. 20328, prepared in May 1902 for the South Wales and Bristol Direct Railway and as used at Brinkworth, Somerford and Chipping Sodbury stations.
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[Photos: Paddington in colour]
p.354
8 colour photos (including front and rear covers) taken at Paddington during August 1961.