StoneRoad2013's photos with the keyword: Didcot

3755 was restored during the 1980s with the assistance of the Manpower Services Commission, to its as built condition and carrying the post-WW1 Crimson Lake livery. In 2019 the vehicle was repainted into the chocolate and cream livery known as ‘pseudo panelling’ where the steel sides are lined out to match the wooden panelling of earlier carriages. didcotrailwaycentre.org.uk/article.php/148/no-3755-churchward-non-corridor-brake-third One of three attempts to capture the details of the GWR Crest.

3755 was restored during the 1980s with the assistance of the Manpower Services Commission, to its as built condition and carrying the post-WW1 Crimson Lake livery. In 2019 the vehicle was repainted into the chocolate and cream livery known as ‘pseudo panelling’ where the steel sides are lined out to match the wooden panelling of earlier carriages. didcotrailwaycentre.org.uk/article.php/148/no-3755-churchward-non-corridor-brake-third One of three attempts to capture the details of the GWR Crest. This was probably the clearest.

The GWR monogram used between 1870 and 1912. This is on the restored GWR carraige No. 1941 - built new in 1901 [It had centreless bogies and gas lighting [hence the clerestory], 8 compartments for 10 passengers each and was 46ft in length] didcotrailwaycentre.org.uk/article.php/142/no-1941-dean-third

3755 was restored during the 1980s with the assistance of the Manpower Services Commission, to its as built condition and carrying the post-WW1 Crimson Lake livery. In 2019 the vehicle was repainted into the chocolate and cream livery known as ‘pseudo panelling’ where the steel sides are lined out to match the wooden panelling of earlier carriages. didcotrailwaycentre.org.uk/article.php/148/no-3755-churchward-non-corridor-brake-third One of three attempts to capture the details of the GWR Crest.

In the Didcot Railway Centre café, the GWR Roll of Honour for WW1 has pride of place. Please excuse the lamps ...