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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    A class 2 local working pauses at Eastleigh with a train from Wareham, 1559 departure, to Winchester, 2W58.
    And finally, 66063 comes through Eastleigh station with a rake of 10 empty Foster Yeoman JYA bogie boxes. Train 7V48 1638 Hamworthy to Whatley will bear left at the end of the station and route via Romsey and Salisbury.
    I located the former station at Marchwood two weeks previously and this is the return planned for this day. 66005 passes below the up semaphore gantry with 0B41 0810 Fawley to Eastleigh Yard light engine. It had brought in tanks to the Fawley refinery nearby.