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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    66568 was held and the signals visible at the back of the train to allow a passenger working to overtake. Now it has the road the driver powers his train, 4Z51 Cardiff Wentloog to Southampton Millbrook Freightliner, away from the signal stop.
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