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"Warship" D818 "Glory" departs from Exeter St Davids with a Waterloo train
August 1970 |
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Class 45 D80 at Filton West Jn with a freight from Avonmouth
August 1970 |
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Class 73 on freight passes Gatwick Airport on Down Brighton Slow
April 1970 |
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A down freight passes through Cardiff General
August 1970 |
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Whitland looking down the Pembroke Dock branch
August 1970 |
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Near Wolfs Castle on the Fishguard branch
August 1970 |
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Trecwm branch at Letterson Jn
August 1970 |
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Dropping down to Fishguard
August 1970 |
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Motorail train loading at Fishguard & Goodwick
August 1970 |
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Fishguard Harbour with MV "Caledonian Princess" alongside
August 1970 |
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Leaving Fishguard
August 1970 |
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Because of the fire on the Britannia Bridge, my return was via Heysham. Here is D214 with the Irish Mail to London
August 1970 |
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The carriage sidings at Heysham
August 1970 |
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The Irish Mail ran in 2 portions on this day, both class 40s are heading trains for Euston
August 1970 |
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I travelled to Birmingham. Here is the class 47 D1731 running round at Morecambe Promenade
August 1970 |
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The fine gantry at the north end of Preston
August 1970 |
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The south end of Crewe
August 1970 |
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Being a Sunday, the train was routed via Cannock and Walsall to Wolverhampton, then back via Bescot and Soho Rd to New St. This is Wolverhampton LL
August 1970 |
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D1731 runs round again at Wolverhampton
August 1970 |
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A very blurred shot of Wolverhampton LL from the Portobello line
August 1970 |
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I changed at New St for a train to Exeter, which was routed via Worcester and Honeybourne. Here we are taking the junction at Honeybourne for the Cheltenham line
August 1970 |
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The line north to Stratford at Honeybourne
August 1970 |
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Cheltenham Spa station from the Honeybourne line. We then reversed back into the platform
August 1970 |
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Bath Road with all sorts of locos plus a Blue Pullman set.
August 1970 |