Western Region train reporting numbers from the 1960's/70's

[TEAMYAKIMA]

 

I have had a WR Hymek in my showcase for many years and I am finally thinking of adding a set of train reporting numbers to the model to 'finish it off' - shows how bored I am! :-)

 

I trainspotted Hymeks at Ealing Broadway in the early/mid 1960's - can someone suggest which of these might suit the loco? Were they only for passenger trains? My father came from Paignton and would anyone of these suit a Paddington to Paignton train?

 

Thanks for any help.

[Michael Hodgson]

The first digit is the class of train

 

0   light engine

1   express passenger

2   ordinary passenger

3  empty coaching stock (later class 5) or parcels

4-9 goods trains, in decreasing order of priority

 

2nd character

M to LM region

O to Southern Region

Z Special

[Flood]

Those starting with a 1 are for express passenger, those with a 2 are local passenger trains. 0 is light engine, 7 and 8 are partially fitted freights. 6 was used for 60mph freights from 1974. I'm not sure of the exact use before that but it would have been a fully fitted freight of some kind. 3 was express parcels.

 

A is towards London, C was used for South Wales (and also west of Bristol up to 1971), B is Bristol area (and Devon and Cornwall after 1971), V is terminates on the Western Region (after running through another region at some point), M is terminates on the Midland Reagion. H and T I don't know, F would have been a specific area code but I'm not sure where (something tells me possibly Oxford).

 

The last 2 digits are individual train numbers.

[hexagon789]

Two of those headcodes might suit:

 

Going off the 1970 timetable -

 

1A26 - 0635 Penzance to Paddington 

1F46 - 1325 Paignton to Cardiff Gen.

 

O is another interregional letter - to the Southern Region.

[hexagon789]

To add to above:

 

1O59 - morning Cardiff to Portsmouth 

1V23 - afternoon Leeds to Plymouth 

1M28 - midday Paignton to Birmingham