Peter Evans's Pictures of Ealing

The Tamper locomotive.

Used to stamp down the sleepers into the ballast. If it was working near your house, you didnt get a lot of sleep.

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Me driving a D stock train.

Taken at about 4.45 am leaving Ealing Common depot. This was the first train through the road heading east.

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Me climbing onto the Sarah Siddons.

Sarah Siddons was a battery locomotive, used to pull wagons when the electricity was switched off. It had a driving cab at each end and the middle was just full of batteries. Prior to that it used to pull passenger cars.

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Inside the sheds Ealing Common Depot.

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Ealing Common work sheds.

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Another part of the work sheds.

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A picture of Ealing

The Sarah Siddons. A battery locomotive of the type used, before ellectrification, to pull underground trains. Still used until the late 80s on the underground for maintenance work when the current was turned off. Ealing Common depot, Acton Town, West London.

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A picture of Ealing

An old Victorian underground wooden carriage, found in a back garden in Kent, in the early 70s. About to be completely rebuilt. It is standing on a flat rolling stock truck, not having its own original undercarriage. Ealing Common underground depot, Acton Town, East London.

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A picture of Ealing

The last Q stock underground train carriage being prepared for transport to the Isle of white. Taken in the early 70s at Ealing Common underground train depot, Acton Town in west London.

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