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Multiple Meanderer
DRS tractors 37612 (sporting appropriate holiday bunny headgear on the jumper cable socket) and 611 plough(!) through the Wylye valley with 14 on the hook working the ECS positioning move 1Z51 Eastleigh to Whitchurch following the Easter Monday "The Heart of Wales Meanderer" tour the previous day.
The English Electric produced locos had passed this way multiple times over the bank holiday weekend having firstly run down to Hampshire with a 12 coach set and 47810 (DIT) on the Easter Sunday as 1Z48, then with the Pathfinder Tours-organised excursion 1Z49 Eastleigh to Llandrindod Wells and 1Z50 return and finally the marvelous meandering multitude are seen here approaching the level crossing at Upton Lovell journeying back to Shropshire (with two extra MkII air-con coaches tacked on at Eastleigh).
Speaking of multiples, the locomotives, both released to British Railways in late 1963 have each carried four different numbers during the course of their working lives. Amazingly over 60 years later both examples are available for work on the nation's rail network.
Multiple Meanderer
DRS tractors 37612 (sporting appropriate holiday bunny headgear on the jumper cable socket) and 611 plough(!) through the Wylye valley with 14 on the hook working the ECS positioning move 1Z51 Eastleigh to Whitchurch following the Easter Monday "The Heart of Wales Meanderer" tour the previous day.
The English Electric produced locos had passed this way multiple times over the bank holiday weekend having firstly run down to Hampshire with a 12 coach set and 47810 (DIT) on the Easter Sunday as 1Z48, then with the Pathfinder Tours-organised excursion 1Z49 Eastleigh to Llandrindod Wells and 1Z50 return and finally the marvelous meandering multitude are seen here approaching the level crossing at Upton Lovell journeying back to Shropshire (with two extra MkII air-con coaches tacked on at Eastleigh).
Speaking of multiples, the locomotives, both released to British Railways in late 1963 have each carried four different numbers during the course of their working lives. Amazingly over 60 years later both examples are available for work on the nation's rail network.