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end of southern steam railtour photos 9.7.2019

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VEP3417

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turned up about an hour ish late in the end but was well worth seeing, i turned up at the original listed time to find a 10 car 442 wessex in the platform instead :lol:
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STEVIEBOY1

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Nice Photos, thanks for posting. I wonder why it was an hour late? (Nice to see the 442 as well.)
 

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Nice that it actually ran as these tours have regularly been cancelled
 

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thank :) for some odd reason on rtt the wessex and railtour where booked in the same platform for round about the sale time, unless the wessex times where updated and the tour times not, ive noticed not all times get updated on rtt
 

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Thanks for nice clear photos. Here is reason requested by Stevieboy1, caused by pathing delay of light British India line locomotive from Yeovil Steam centre, where she was turned. The tour was Class 45 diesel hauled from Penn Mill to Weymouth earlier. Water top up delay and support coach repositioning meant slot was lost on platform two. We left one hour late on a sold out train. Locomotive behaved faultlessly and worked hard at 70mph on nice green signals to pull back 10 minutes, then Network Rail helped by not stopping us for 30 minutes at scheduled Wallers Ash loop, fifteen minutes before Worting Junction; so Basingstoke reached only 20 minutes late. Memories of the Atlantic Coast Express, triple exhaust beat and Waterloo Sunset. Railway Touring Company Staff usual excellent customer service and communication.
 

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interesting to know
shame we dont get many variants of diesels on railtours down this way, its either 73s/33s/47s.....cant complain tho :lol:

i tried very hard this time to actually get some good photos :lol:
 
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