martinsh
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I don't think it's class 47. I'm trying to think of classes with "gaps" in my old 1970s Combined Volume. I'm thinking class 08 or 24.
Not class 47, although one was involved in the 1969 accident; that is almost twice the bonus answer. It was a location where trains to London could leave in opposite directions.Class 47? May we have a clue about the location?
A little more exact, please.24 or 25? New Street Birmingham or Nottingham or Chester?
Thanks very much
Some questions about the Watercress Line:
Why should one not forget the prefix 'New' when getting a through ticket to New Alresford?
Why was the line closed at the Alton end for several months recently?
What unusual event, not involving running trains, is held in February?
What cheeky little engine lives at Ropley since 1994?
What are the names of the two dining-car trains on the line?
Being a pedant, strictly speaking the line was closed so that the existing A339 underbridge (a narrow brick arch) could be replaced by a new steel plate girder bridge with a much wider span, allowing two way traffic underneath and permitting a roundabout to be built adjacent to it. The increased traffic to the new homes was the rationale for the work, but the access road goes off the A339 at a second (new) roundabout about 100 yards further south.The line was closed so an access road to hundreds of new homes in Alton could be built.
Swanage, unrebuilt?
Eddystone, unrebuilt?
Bodmin?
xxx Squadron?
If that is a clue, then Anti-Aircraft Command.
Clan Line? Peninsula & Oriental Steam Navigation?
I took a picture in 1993 of 34072 (unrebuilt) double-heading with 34105 on the Mid-Hants but have a feeling it may have been a "guest". Anyway, will try 34072 and possibly rebuilt Braunton, plus unrebuilt Tangmere.
In that case, eliminating what has already been discounted, that leaves a choice of about three that have been on the main line. Not going to hog them all so will plump for 35005 Canadian Pacific.One left and it wasn’t a light pacific...
In that case, eliminating what has already been discounted, that leaves a choice of about three that have been on the main line. Not going to hog them all so will plump for 35005 Canadian Pacific.