A montage of pictures off my dad's phone of trains dating back to 2004/7. Some shots of the New St Pancras, the old Virgin Cross Country Voyagers and various other pictures from across the country!
Tags: Virgin Voyager Newcastle Class 221 Ruairidh MacVeigh Westcountryman Bishops Lydard Steam St Pancras Eurostar 373 Ashford SouthEastern 375 London Underground Edinburugh 90 First Scotrail
20 minutes at Teignmouth station, catching the usual and the unusual: 10:24 FGW Sprinter 150232 Bristol Temple Meads - Penzance 10:24 XC Voyager 220XXX - 221XXX Plymouth - Manchester Picc. (With 1tone) 10:29 DBS 67 67022 Probably running light from Laira to St. Phillips Marsh 10:33 FGW Sprinters 153372 - 150233 Topsham - Paignton (Engineering works on the Avocet line, no services to Exemouth)
Tags: Ruairidh MacVeigh Voyager Sprinter Class 150 153 220 221 67 Teignmouth Surprisingly Sunny
Travelling home onboard a FGW HST. Due to engineering works on the GWML between Newbury and Westbury, the train was diverted via Didcot, Swindon and Melsham. Some beautiful sunset shots also filmed. Quite a fitting end to what has been an amazing trip across our island nation, having a taste of nearly all of the Train operating companies of this country (Minus, Anglia and the South Coast operators)
Travelling home onboard a FGW HST. Due to engineering works on the GWML between Newbury and Westbury, the train was diverted via Didcot, Swindon and Melsham. Some beautiful sunset shots also filmed. Quite a fitting end to what has been an amazing trip across our island nation, having a taste of nearly all of the Train operating companies of this country (Minus, Anglia and the South Coast operators)
On the last day of our trip, we had to go to London in order to get home. So we hopped aboard one of Grand Central's Buffer fitted hst's. Thanks to a lack of Standard Class coaches, we managed to travel in a first class coach with a second class ticket. YAY GRAND CENTRAL!!. Not only that, some immense Paxman Valenta noises were recorded on camera. Amazing sound that should be preserved rather than being cast aside like it will be in 2010. Let us hope that Grand Central will preserve at least ...
On the last day of our trip, we had to go to London in order to get home. So we hopped aboard one of Grand Central's Buffer fitted hst's. Thanks to a lack of Standard Class coaches, we managed to travel in a first class coach with a second class ticket. YAY GRAND CENTRAL!!. Not only that, some immense Paxman Valenta noises were recorded on camera. Amazing sound that should be preserved rather than being cast aside like it will be in 2010. Let us hope that Grand Central will preserve at least ...
On the last day of our trip, we had to go to London in order to get home. So we hopped aboard one of Grand Central's Buffer fitted hst's. Thanks to a lack of Standard Class coaches, we managed to travel in a first class coach with a second class ticket. YAY GRAND CENTRAL!!. Not only that, some immense Paxman Valenta noises were recorded on camera. Amazing sound that should be preserved rather than being cast aside like it will be in 2010. Let us hope that Grand Central will preserve at least ...
On the last day of our trip, we had to go to London in order to get home. So we hopped aboard one of Grand Central's Buffer fitted hst's. Thanks to a lack of Standard Class coaches, we managed to travel in a first class coach with a second class ticket. YAY GRAND CENTRAL!!. Not only that, some immense Paxman Valenta noises were recorded on camera. Amazing sound that should be preserved rather than being cast aside like it will be in 2010. Let us hope that Grand Central will preserve at least ...
