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‘Out of the box’ and with hardly an exhaust stain on its roofline, D601 “ARK ROYAL” – carrying the requisite single white disc ‘light engine’ headcode on its near end – waits prior to moving off; the second man staring resolutely ahead. Visitors stand ambivalently nearby, their proximity suggesting interest, but quite possibly prefering steam to diesel locomotion. 7####GY01-UNK–D601-PARKD
D602 “BULLDOG” in original livery hauls a train of short wheel-base vans plus a conflat next to the loco, probably on the approaches to London, and past semaphores with long arms. Such positioning of single conflats seems to have been a common practice. 6####EA01-UNK—D602-GOODS
With the sheen of the varnish brightening its flanks and various edges glinting, one of the five new D6XX locos climbs the bank up from Totnes with the west-bound Cornish Riviera Express. A feature of the early days was the nose horn cover farings being picked out in grey. 5####AI01-UNK—D6##-PASGR
The Eric Curnow Collection 