2. Railways

Slamdoors and semaphores

With the withdrawal of the mkI based slam door stock taking place at a rapid rate, I took a week and a half to explore parts of the Southern Region taking in as many of the slam door sets and remaining semaphore signals as I could find. 20/3 - 1/4/2005
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    The next freight is an EWS hauled one with 66125 fronting 6Y30 0810 MWFO Fawley to Holybourne empty oil tanks. This may have been an additional working as this day was a Thursday and the previous Monday was a Bank Holiday and that day's working may have been cancelled.
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