BRITISH INDIA LINE at Fleet.

[45669]

Evening All,

As some of you will know, 35018 BRITISH INDIA LINE, was out on the South Western main line today working London Victoria to / from Bournemouth and Weymouth. I went to Fleet to video both the down and up trains and the resultant footage in now on my YouTube channel. Here's the link if you'd like to have a look:

Hope you like it.

TTFN,

Ron.

 

[duncanp]

Evening All,

As some of you will know, 35018 BRITISH INDIA LINE, was out on the South Western main line today working London Victoria to / from Bournemouth and Weymouth. I went to Fleet to video both the down and up trains and the resultant footage in now on my YouTube channel. Here's the link if you'd like to have a look:

Hope you like it.

TTFN,

Ron.

I am old enough to remember steam trains running through Fleet in service in the 1960s, as my grandparents lived nearby in Church Crookham.

 

[45669]

I am old enough to remember steam trains running through Fleet in service in the 1960s, as my grandparents lived nearby in Church Crookham.

Although I didn't live down this way then, I travelled from Waterloo to Southampton to visit an aunt and uncle that lived in Hythe. I also went on a number of trainspotting trips and railtours in the '50s and 60s. We had some friends that ran a hotel in Boscombe and I stayed with them for a weekend out of season c. 1957. I came back on the Sunday on the 'Bournemouth Belle' Pullman train and had afternoon tea with scones and sandwiches on bone china plates. The tea was poured from a silver tea pot.

So I knew the line out of Waterloo quite well in those days, but I also travelled out of most of the other London termini, so knew those lines quite well too.