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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    Another mkI class 423 4VEP unit runs in with a short distance to its journey's end. 3405 forms 1Y28 1057 from Brighton to terminate at Basingstoke about a mile or so away.
    A motley collection of wagons including OBA and KWA vehicles form this class 7 45mph departmental working. 66210 is employed on 7Y39 0946 Hoo Junction to Eastleigh Yard.
    Not all the Portsmouth Harbour workings produced a slamdoor set many were rostered to the new Desiro units and these went by unrecorded. But this train, 1T33 1209 off London Waterloo to Portsmouth Harbour was formed by 4VEP 3811 and was duly photographed.