Welcome back for another update, todays update is slightly out of region today. I took a trip on Pathfinders Xmas Spinner ‘The Moonraker’ from Gloucester – Salisbury.
The weather was pretty miserbale all day but it did stop raining at Salisbury so I managed a few photos. First up we have 37051/717 running light engine into the station after dropping the coaching stock in the sidings. The driver certainly seems to be enjoying himself!
As the 37s were preparing to depart for Eastleigh 66504 arrived from Southampton to take the train on the next leg to Oxford Up and Down passenger loop. It ran up to the siding and was attached to the front of the stock. After a short time it reversered the train back into the station were we see it here. Another excellent Pathfinder tour and this one ran with pretty much no problems at all which was nice.
Well compared to yesterday today was like a summers day, it was hazy out but it might be my best chance of photting 66717 on the Avon bins. I decided on Hinksey and got there early as I seem to have trouble catching it. A local turned up while I was there and said new 66568 had gone North on a freightliner at 11.00 so I had missed that by a few minutes. I waited and waited and then at 12.30 the familiar blinding headlight appeared around the corner, pretty much bang on time! If you look at the larger photo you will see we have a friendly driver onboard today!
Well that will do for starters, lets see what I can conjure up later in the week. When I was editing the file I was looking at the loco and noticed a black blob on the front. I quickly zoomed in to get a better look. It was a shed code plaque. It reads 1A, shed codes were a bit before my time but at a guess I would say Willesden? Until the next time…..
