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Clan Line on VSOE 20th June 2009

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  1. simon

    simon Resident of Nat Pres

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    Clan Line on VSOE today.

    1 pic here:

    http://simon71.fotopic.net/p59060743.html
     
    simon, Jun 20, 2009
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  2. Mikem

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    Nice Woking picture Simon, I saw her ar Shere crossing today working well.

    Regards

    Mike M. ( 70 c )
     
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  3. hatherton hall

    hatherton hall Well-Known Member

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    I saw her trundle through Woking today once the down Alton had cleared.
    Nice blast on the whistle as she passed through.
    Can anyone enlighten me as to the origin of the route disk set up. On the Western this would be a parcels or fast freight but on the Southern I don't know. Maybe this was correct for trains transversing this route?
     
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  4. Romsey

    Romsey Part of the furniture

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    I've checked the George Pryer Southern Signalling book and this route code (not train class) covered quite a few routes.

    Victoria or Battersea Yard and Brighton via Quarry Line
    London Bridge or New Cross Gate and Norwood Yard
    Tunbridge Wells West and Eastbourne
    Victoria or Holborn Viaduct and Dover or Ramshate or Hastings via Nunhead and Tonbridge
    Horsham and Guildford
    Waterloo or Nine Elms and Southampton Docks via East Putney
    Salisbury and Portsmouth & Southsea or Harbour via Eastleigh

    These were Southern Railway routes (probably 1930's) and the routes for this code would have changed over the years.

    Cheers, Neil
     
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  5. KentYeti

    KentYeti Guest

    Missed out on Clan Line today.

    I was having a "Super Sixcoupled Southern Summer Saturday"!

    With rides behind FOUR ex SR sixcoupled steam locos. 31065, 31592, 31638 and 34059.

    Four locos who once had numbers 5 digits long starting with a 3. Yes, I was in heaven.

    For a few hundred pounds more I could have added a fifth. I guess!
     
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