She Who Rules topping up on grass. She is a big healthy girl :)

Deze foto doet meer recht aan het prachtige weer dat we hadden tijdens onze trip door het zuiden van Engeland. Ascot was onze uitvalsbasis voor onze trips naar Londen, Windsor, Oxford en The Birling Gap. Op deze foto SWR 458502 die langs perron 2 van Ascot (Berks) binnenkomt en ons naar Reading zal brengen waar we overstappen op de trein naar Oxford. Rechts staat SWR 450056 in de oude SWR-kleurstelling klaar als trein naar Guildford.

English: SWR 458502 entering Ascot (Berks) station, working the service to Reading. On the right old-SWR livery 450056 awaiting passenger service to Guildford.

Schwerin CKD Tatra T3D-C

Tijdens een mooie zomerdag te Ascot (Berkshire) met links de klassieke houten overkapping in beeld. Treinstel 450056 (Siemens Desiro-UK) in de oude SWR-kleurstelling staat gereed als trein naar Guildford. Het treinstel wacht op overstappers van de trein uit London Waterloo.

English: Old-SWR livery 450056 awaiting passenger service to Guildford on a sunny day at Ascot (Berkshire). The EMU is waiting for the London Waterloo - Reading service, carrying passengers for changing trains at Ascot.

SWR Island Line Cl.484002 arrives into Sandown working 2D47 17:14 Ryde Esplanade to Shanklin service.

SWR Cl.483008 arrives at Shanklin, the line's current southern terminus, having formed an Island Line service from Ryde Pier Head.

A new lease of life for the 458s

Swiss International Air Lines A320- 214 landing runway 27R

SWR Island Line Cl.483004 124+224 passes the Isle of Wight bus museum on the approach to Ryde St. John's Road on a Ryde Pier Head to Shanklin working.

SWR Cl.483008 departs Ryde Esplanade down towards Ryde Tunnel on an Island Line service from Ryde Pier Head to Shanklin.

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Malden Manor, 20/3/23

2M68 2104 London Waterloo to Chessington South

SWR Island Line Cl.484002 calls at the recently reopened loop platform at Brading working 2D43 16:15 Ryde Esplanade to Shanklin service.

SWR Cl.483008 at Sandown on a Ryde Pier Head to Shanklin Island Line service.

SWR Island Line Cl.484002 approaches Ryde Esplanade station working 2U46 16:16 Shanklin to Ryde Pier Head service.

Not long for SWR

Swiss International Air Lines A320-214 Landing runway 27R from GVA

SWR 484002 leaves Ryde passing Swanmore Meadow working 2D27 1403 Ryde Pier Head to Shanklin.

Seen resting briefly at Hounslow before heading back to London Waterloo

Swiss International Air Lines A320- 214 Landing runway 09L from GVA

Seen resting at Clapham Junction ready for its duties the next day

707007 was on the other end

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Something of a rarity these days, and more so along the Dorset coast, a 12-car Class 455 formation. An additional Saturday VSTP working appeared running as 5Z50 09:22 Wimbledon Park - Bournemouth T&RSMD lead by 455750 (left) with 455720 (centre) and 455708 trailing (right) as they head down Christchurch Bank past Staple Cross, having just passed over the county border from Hampshire into Dorset, on Saturday 31 May 2025.

Clapham Junction station, Battersea

A day trip to the Island.

BM Coaches

Roaming in the south western corner of the Adelaide CBD... someone who lived (or worked?) in this building heard me beeping away with my remote release and stuck their head out the window and gazed intently for a short time. Very, very quiet out at this time - and in the Adelaide city centre, no less.

Schwerin CKD Tatra T3D-C

Schwerin Bombardier SN2001 Flexity Classic

Seen pausing briefly at Barnes before continuing towards London Waterloo

SWR 701005 seen approaching Eastleigh working 5Q52 Eastleigh T&RSMD to Eastleigh T&RSMD at 20:14

exp 1/n light

Swiss International Air Lines Bombardier C Series 100 Landing runway 27L from GVA

Swiss International Air Lines Bombardier C Series 300 Landing runway 27R from GVA

My friend Denise named this little cub Tuffs because of the rimmed ears which is white fur. At first we thought there was a problem with the ears but the close ups proved it was thick fur...very different but also very easy to keep track of her in the future. I’m just guessing not sure what sex she is. The other cub Denise, Stu and I decided would be Tuffy not sure if that is the spelling we chose.

Here Tuffy and SWR are having a moment together as they wait for a fish. The tender interactive moments is what it is all about for me.

SWR Cl.483006 at Sandown on an Island Line service from Shanklin to Ryde Pier Head waits for the delayed southbound service to Shanklin from Ryde Pier Head to clear the single track section in front.