I remember seeing the class 117 DMU at Skegness one summer !The chocolate and cream DMU was seen over a lot of the region. It certainly appeared in west Wales. I think it was a class 117 allocated to Bristol Bath Road?
I remember seeing the class 117 DMU at Skegness one summer !The chocolate and cream DMU was seen over a lot of the region. It certainly appeared in west Wales. I think it was a class 117 allocated to Bristol Bath Road?
7819 Hinton Manor (the black one) was I seem to remember one of the better performers out of the steam locos. We saw it at Exeter on one of the runs.There was a BR black Manor on it at least one day, I remember seeing it & apparently memory wasn't playing up - https://www.philt.org.uk/PreservationScene/GWR/i-NHvBqf9 . How ironic . There was a service to the docks too ( link subsequently removed ), I don't remember what ran that. The Portishead trains didn't quite make it to Portishead itself as the station wasn't there anymore.
It certainly made it there in April 1993!I remember seeing the class 117 DMU at Skegness one summer !
47079 wore the GWR scheme for the shortest period of time - It received Trainload Metals livery in 1987. At the other end of the spectrum, 47484 and 50007 carried the livery until their withdrawals, in 2000 and 1994 respectively. 50007 continued to carry the livery in preservation until repainted into BR blue around ten years ago, and 47484 still, just about, carries the livery today in dilapidated condition.I'm not sure how long the locos stayed in those colours.
I remember watching a light mogul of LMS origin taking a special down to Wapping Wharf; looked very striking among the bonded warehouses and the dock area generally. It was in September 1985.Weren’t there steam shuttles down the Portishead line?