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 second surprise of the day was this GBRf working of two class 73 electro-diesels working on their English Electric SRKT mkII 600hp diesel power plants. 73204 and 73206 left Tonbridge earlier heading for Ludgershall, the headcode is not known.
    This pair has been seen before, 4VEP 3456 and 4CIG 1309 return from London Waterloo as 1T29 1109 off bound for Portsmouth Harbour. The following day, 1/4/05, 3456 was taken out of traffic after 40 odd years of railway service.
    Another named Freightliner loco 66534 "OOCL Express" fronts a well loaded service to Birmingham Lawley Street, 1000 off Southampton 4M55.