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Hi,
This message was seen on the Southern Group. Thought it may be of great joy to this group.
Roger P.
Hello there and hope you are all well.
We were out with Tornado yesterday as you may know on the SR Kent coast lines,
we were the ONLY train around in the area almost all day !
Saw a few Javelins, parked up, and a poorly Southeastern train being doubled
headed by 2 x class 73's !
We had a slow run in the morning but in the evening as there were no electric
trains around we had a good sprint!
When we got back to a snowy Victoria for the dinner run at 1745 we had about 100
commuters who were stranded at Victoria and couldn't get home to Kent on SE and
SR trains.
They came over to platform 2 to see that we were stopping at Bromley,Swanley and
Maidstone, and as we were not full and took them on free of charge.
They were very grateful and many said they never even normally get a
seat !
Such fun, and some very happy converts to steam, albeit not a SR one but we all
had a hoot.
Merry Xmas
Rog
Rejoice could the SR be ordering more of this fine class
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Rejoice could the SR be ordering more of this fine class
Hi interested in the area served by 52D. also researching colliery wagonways from same area.
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Re: Rejoice could the SR be ordering more of this fine class
Well it had to be an LNER type, we loaned them V2s and B1s the last time they had some bother with their locos.
Hi interested in the area served by 52D. also researching colliery wagonways from same area.