Eastleigh Choppers
Not what you expect when you stick your head over the parapet at Eastleigh a British Railways green class 20 whistling its way south under your feet.
To be fair, I knew 0Z20 had left Leicester around the same time I left Sheffield yesterday, and although I had concluded catching it en route would not be possible, I only missed it by 5 minutes as I drove past Hinksey. With reversal at Reading and the roads being the shorter route, via Newbury I had a good chance of catching it at Eastleigh. All was going well as we hit the M3 at Winchester and very little traffic, however shortly after we ground to a halt. Ditching the car near Eastleigh station the headlamps loomed in the mist in the distance as 20007 and 20142 headed towards me in the rain. 70813 sits to the right at the head of the engineers yard.
Eastleigh Choppers
Not what you expect when you stick your head over the parapet at Eastleigh a British Railways green class 20 whistling its way south under your feet.
To be fair, I knew 0Z20 had left Leicester around the same time I left Sheffield yesterday, and although I had concluded catching it en route would not be possible, I only missed it by 5 minutes as I drove past Hinksey. With reversal at Reading and the roads being the shorter route, via Newbury I had a good chance of catching it at Eastleigh. All was going well as we hit the M3 at Winchester and very little traffic, however shortly after we ground to a halt. Ditching the car near Eastleigh station the headlamps loomed in the mist in the distance as 20007 and 20142 headed towards me in the rain. 70813 sits to the right at the head of the engineers yard.