Really enjoying reading this thread folks.
Just to add a moment in time...
Sometime in spring 1988 behind 47497* leaving Taunton and heading west with 13 on and absolutely staggering up Whiteball - probably topping the bank at about 38mph, we somehow made it, before hurtling down the other side non stop through Tivvy Parkway on the way to Exeter. Even then it seemed surprising to me that a ‘modern’ train could struggle like that...
* 47497 became 47717 within a year.
Just to add a moment in time...
Sometime in spring 1988 behind 47497* leaving Taunton and heading west with 13 on and absolutely staggering up Whiteball - probably topping the bank at about 38mph, we somehow made it, before hurtling down the other side non stop through Tivvy Parkway on the way to Exeter. Even then it seemed surprising to me that a ‘modern’ train could struggle like that...
* 47497 became 47717 within a year.
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