Czesziafan
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Another picture taken by my late father, this time of Western Class 52 D1030 resplendent in its new livery of chromatic rail blue with small yellow panels. The location is Taplow on the GW main line, and the date 17th September 1966, when the Great Western Society held a fundraising open day at its depot there. Musketeer was the first Western to receive any kind of BR blue livery, and close inspection of other photos taken at the event showed she had a red-backed aluminium 81A shed plate on the opposite end. Officially she was a Bath Road loco at this time, so why she carried an Old Oak Common plate is perplexing.