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'The Dartmouth Express'. 15th May,2015

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  1. free2grice

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    Friday, 15th May, 2015

    Actual Train Timings from RYTC. <BJ>

    Outward     / Return
    Slough 07:09 / 21:45
    Reading 07:40 / 21:26
    Newbury 08:05 / 20:59
    Westbury 09:20 / 19:58
    Paignton 13:03 / 17:07
    Kingswear 13:32 / 16:30
     
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    Good to see that DBS have been able to step in as TOC for this one. Steam still goes on at Westbury, although the train now starts and finishes at Slough instead of Woking.
     
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    Two minutes early at Strap Lane, on the down leg, after being stopped (signal?) on Brewham Bank. Here she is accelerating away from the stop; the sound was awesome!

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    Here’s my video, taken at Starcross, Newton Abbot and Tiverton Parkway:

     
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    Just the one shot .. just wanted to get out and video some steam after not seeing any since early April..

     
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    Nice video. Bad luck at Starcross.
     
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    A quick shot from me of Britannia screaming through Castle Cary on the return run.
     
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    The train stopped at Westbury for a loco change on the return, but not in a platform road, so folks who had joined at Westbury had to travel on to Pewsey to get off. NR problems, according to my friend.
     
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    Unbelievably the NR issue seemed to have been a South West Trains 'route learning' train that was the only train that occupied P3 for a short time while we stood in the Up Reception loop. The conductor on the 2048 Padd-Plymouth kindly let us travel back to Westbury for free to let us get to Bristol on the 2110 Portsmouth-Cardiff Service. RTC had laid on a coach that had no chance of getting us to Westbury for the 2125 let alone the 2110.
     
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    Speed was 68.
     
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    Speeds were 66, 43 and 58 respectively
     
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    70000 at Strap Lane on the return from Kingswear.
     
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