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4965 and 5043 await departure from Dorridge.08/11/2008 4965 and 5043 depart Dorridge for Didcot on 08/11/2008 66177 running wrong line at Shirley with expired track panels from Wood End.08/11/2008. Ta To Pete T for the gen on this one. Battle scarred 37 417 heads over Stambermill Viaduct, Stourbridge,en-route to Round Oak, with Pathfinders Industrious Trader tour.15/11/2008 37 417 grinds through Old Hill with the Stourbridge Jn-Stafford leg of The Industrious Trader railtour.15/11/2008 37417/401 awaiting departure from Birmingham International with the return Industrious Trader to Reading .15/11/2008 4965 Rood Ashton Hall and 5043 Earl of Mount edgcumbe pause at Dorridge with Vintage Trains Solihull-Didcot charter.08/11/2008

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156403 arrves at Heckington with the 1250 Nottingham Skegness on 26/08/2008 67015 heads the 0817 Marylebone -Wrexham, formed of just two caches, into Wolverhampton.02/08/2008 37 417 heads the 6F18 Holyhead RTZ-Warrington through Fflint on 02/08/2008 Deltic 55 022 powers up past Edale box with a circular tour from Crewe on a very wet 09/08/2008 67 029 eases the 1517 Marylebone-Wrexham past Dorridge on 24/08/2008

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Bittern passes Birmingham Moor St. on a dismal, wet evening. 19/04/2008 Nunney Castle powers through Small Heath on 26/04/2008 with Vintage Trains outing to Chester. 6233 Duchess of Sutherland at Crewe.26/04/2008 86 259 pauses at Wolverhampton on the way back from Carlisle to Tyseley D1015 passes Birmingham Int. with ECS from Bescot- Old Oak Common on 04/05/2008

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37 401 passes Hever with 37 405 at the rear, on Pathfinders tour from Uckfield to East Croydon on 08/03/2008 DRS 47 802 heads The Stobart Pullman from Letchworth to Stratford-upon-Avon through Wilmcote. 15/03/2008 55 022 slows for the stop at Codsall, with Pathfinders Central Wales tour of 29/03/2008. The GWR footbridge has been recently restored, having been demolished by a piece of track plant during maintenance work in 2007 Deltic 55 022 Royal Scots Grey eases to a halt at Codsall with Pathfinders Central Wales Explorer railtour. 29/03/2008

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37 422 heads Pathfinders tour to East Grinstead at Hurst Green Junction. 02/022008 Newly repainted 37401 crosses Oxted Viaduct with the East Grinstead-London Bridge leg of a Pathfinders tour.02/02/2008

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King Edward 1 at Chester. 22/12/2007 6024 King Edward 1 at chester on 22/12/2007 King Edward 1 awaits departure from Crewe.22/12/2007

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47 773 eases through Birmingham Snow Hill on an appalingly wet 088/12/2007 with a Vintage Trains trip from Tyseley to Minehead 33207 on the rear of a tour at Chester. 08/12/2007 Lisbon single-decker tram at Woodside.08/12/2007 4965 Rood Ashton Hall makes a flying visit to chester on 15/12/2007 Trams cross at Pacific Road, Birkenhead. Routemaster and trams at Woodside. 15/12/2007 Token exchange. Last tram of the day at Woodside 1623.15/12/2007 6024 powers out of the fog at Stafford on 22/12/2007 with a Pathfinders trip to Chester

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47828 Joe Strummer arrives at Llandudno at 1250 ahving been daetached from the front of the Cotswold tour from Bristol. 47 813 John Peel arrives at 1255 with the train. 47828 drops onto the stock to release 47813. 47 828 with Blue Pullman headboard. Driver climbs aboard. 47828 removes the stock 47813 0n the rear of the stock. 47 813 now drops into platform1 47 813 is now nearest the camera, as 47828 reverses the stock back into platform 3 2 Cotswold Rail 47s and semaphores at Llandudno 47813/828 at Chester 47 813/828 call at Chester on the return from Llandudno to Bristol. 6201 Princess Elizabeth and a Pendolino at Crewe. 6201 Princess Elizabeth reposes at the south end of Crewe station after bringing in a tour from Bristol.

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37410/417 after arrival at Aberystwyth. 37410/417 run round the stock at Aberystwyth. Run-round at Aber. Vale of Rheidol loco Prince of Wales passes 37410/17 at Aberystwyth 22/09/2007 4936 Kinlet Hall powers up Old Hill Bank with the lunchtime Bewdley-Birmingham Snow Hill trip on 23/09/2007 37410/417 pass Kents Bank with pathfinders Worcester-Carlisle tour of 29/09/2007 37410 and 417 leave Dovey Junction with Kingfisher charters Reading-Aberystwyth tour on 22 Sep 2007

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Car Ferry from Cowes arriving at Town Quay. Cruise ship Oriana at Queen Elizabeth Dock Seen from the Hythe ferry, the cruise ship Oriana at Southampton, Queen Elizabeth Dock Container ship Maersk Nottingham is headed into Southampton by the tug River Bevois Busy scene on Southampton water with cruise ships Oriana and Navigator of the Seas, container ship Maersk Nottingham, Hythe Ferry and Superseacat for Cowes The Hythe Pier Electric Railway meets each ferry from Southampton. The tiny battery electric loco providing the power. Oriana and the Southampton-Cowes ferry seen from Hythe Marina. Container ship Eddystone seen from Hythe Marina. The Hythe Pier electric train meets every ferry just as it has done since 1922.

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D1015 passes Glandyfi with pathfinders Swindon-Aberystwyth charter The Vale of Rheidol diesel No 10 shunts, with D1015 in the background. Close up of D1015 Western Champion running round the stock in a short lived bit of sun at Aberystwyth. Run round at Aberystwyth Station nameboard and Class 52. Western Champion approaching Borth on the return from Aberystwyth to Swindon. Applying the power through Borth station

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D1015 Western Champion, posing as D1046 Western Marquis, draws to a stand at Crediton with a Paddington-Okehampton railtour . 24/02/2007 D1046 numberplate on Western Champion is clearly visible, as it growls over the crossing at Crediton en-route to Okehampton.24/02/2007 The maroon Western eases up to Crediton box to surrender the single line token for Okehampton, on the return to Paddington. 24/02/2007 40145 hammers up Camp Hill incline,Birmingham, over the Grand Union Canal, with The Welsh Central Liner tour.03/03/2007 37 405/422 pass Wellington with Kingfisher tours Ealing Broadway-Aberystwyth trip on a very wet 30/06/2007. Ta to Mick for the photo guidance. 377405/422 pass Abbey Foregate, Shrewsbury with the return Aberystwyth-Ealing tour. 30/06/2007 37405/422 seen on the little used Abbey Foregate curve at Shrewsbury with the return Aberystwyth-Ealing Broadway charter. 30/06/2007 Rood Ashton Hall arrives back at Tyseley on the first Shakespeare Express outing of the year on 01/07/2007 Seen through the gate at Maintrain Tyseley are 50 033 and 86 259 Les Ross.01/07/2007

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