EASTERN COUNTIES ALLOCATION DECEMBER 1982: THE BRISTOL RE AXE

Both Pictures from my good friend Peter Horrex's collection and whose copyright they are.

The end of 1982 saw the beginning of the end for Eastern Counties and the Bristol RE, the one place that was mostly affected by the cull was Great Yarmouth with 6 being on the list for disposal, what was strange in some respects was by and large it was the younger ones from 1970-72 being chosen for the cull rather than the earlier flat screen versions, one of the Ipswich survivors seen above was RL 667 PPW 667F, the only one withdrawn from Ipswich was RL 728 YPW 728J. The youngest one withdrawn was RL 520 HPW 520L from Cromer at just 10 years old, the end would come four years later with many of the Ipswich allocation finishing there days at Bury St Edmunds the last one to depart being RL 513 EPW 513K in 1986.

Seen here in Claydon in 1980 was another Ipswich survivor RL 507 CNG 507K another one that finished it's days in Bury St Edmunds