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Friday 25th July 2003
A tour round South Central Train's network using a day rover ticket. These tickets are only available by ordering over the internet direct from South central Trains. ( http://www.southcentraltrains.co.uk/days_out_promotions/days_out_promotions.shtml ) Our route and mileage accumulated is tabulated below |
| It was a good day. 246.75 miles
covered and not a single cancelled train. A couple of trains were late,
but our original timetable had just enough slack in it to allow for the
odd calamity.
As the cost of the ticket was £10 it worked out at roughly 4p per mile travelled. The highlight of the tour was to find that the preserved class 202 "Hastings Diesels" train was making a test run on the Marsh Link line between Hastings and Ashford International (and return). At the rear of the train was their new power car "Mountsfield", this was the first time we had seen that in action. As another plus point we were allowed to travel in the leading power car which is notionally first class, but declassified on this line.
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Photographs taken on the day - click on thumbnails to enlarge. |
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