Taking photo's of trains & railtours has never been easier with all the gen on the "net", mobile phones, digital cameras & when you "cock-it-up" everyones favourite photoshop to create an image on the computer!73003 Ashford Area 150386 (1Z25)
Nearly 40 years ago it was very different & on 15th March 1986, we ended up in wrong place at the right time, as all the information we had about The Vulcan Vantrain promoted by the Loco Club of GB & SEG (Southern Electric Group) was from the leaflet advertising the tour several months earlier!
After picking up Roger at Brentwood (convenient for the M25), I drove us to Sole Street & we waited & waited without any sign of the tour, because 1Z25 (0755 SO London Paddington - Ashford [Kent] via North Kent Coast on the leaflet, was revised to run via Tonbridge & Hastings at the last minute, after the line was cleared for mki stock a few days earlier. It got very close passing Swanley at 0921, three minutes early!!.
These photo's have not been uploaded before, because it has taken a lot of time (now available) & effort to research this railtour, as my spreadsheet for that year & the paper notes I still have had no record of it, just lot's of loco & unit numbers taken at Hoo Jn, Sole Street, Ashford & Tonbridge, but thanks to "Six Bells Junction", I think I have identified the trains correctly!!!
73003 - 1Z25 (1315 SO STP Charter from Folkestone Harbour to Ashford [Kent, return of 1216 dep), which was formed of 6 coaches & named The Vulcan Vantrain by joint promoters the Loco Club of Great Britain & the SEG [Southern Electric Group]) - Ashford Area - afternoon - 15/03/86.
Taking photo's of trains & railtours has never been easier with all the gen on the "net", mobile phones, digital cameras & when you "cock-it-up" everyones favourite photoshop to create an image on the computer!73003 Ashford Area 150386 (1Z25)
Nearly 40 years ago it was very different & on 15th March 1986, we ended up in wrong place at the right time, as all the information we had about The Vulcan Vantrain promoted by the Loco Club of GB & SEG (Southern Electric Group) was from the leaflet advertising the tour several months earlier!
After picking up Roger at Brentwood (convenient for the M25), I drove us to Sole Street & we waited & waited without any sign of the tour, because 1Z25 (0755 SO London Paddington - Ashford [Kent] via North Kent Coast on the leaflet, was revised to run via Tonbridge & Hastings at the last minute, after the line was cleared for mki stock a few days earlier. It got very close passing Swanley at 0921, three minutes early!!.
These photo's have not been uploaded before, because it has taken a lot of time (now available) & effort to research this railtour, as my spreadsheet for that year & the paper notes I still have had no record of it, just lot's of loco & unit numbers taken at Hoo Jn, Sole Street, Ashford & Tonbridge, but thanks to "Six Bells Junction", I think I have identified the trains correctly!!!
73003 - 1Z25 (1315 SO STP Charter from Folkestone Harbour to Ashford [Kent, return of 1216 dep), which was formed of 6 coaches & named The Vulcan Vantrain by joint promoters the Loco Club of Great Britain & the SEG [Southern Electric Group]) - Ashford Area - afternoon - 15/03/86.