South Western Railway 455868, in retro BR blue and grey livery, and 455901 climb the grade into Tolworth station forming 2M07 06:47 London Waterloo to Chessington South on Tuesday 26th March 2024. The station, opened in 1938, like most others on the branch is built in the art deco style of the 1930s using concrete arcs for canopies.
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46100 'Royal Scot' forges through the driving rain in the London suburbs at Herne Hill working Saphos Trains 1Z47 15:55 Canterbury West to Bristol Temple Meads 'The Golden Arrow' on Tuesday 26th March 2024. A marked contrast in conditions compared to the morning run through London.
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46100 'Royal Scot' crosses the River Thames at Imperial Wharf with Saphos Trains 'The Golden Arrow' charter on 26th March 2024, the 1Z46 06:11 Bristol Temple Meads to Canterbury West.
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RFS-built 150-ton Co-Co diesel-hydraulic 'Cracoe' roars into life with a cloud of black exhaust smoke, before moving two loaded 'JGA' wagons off the Tarmac loading point at Rylstone in summer 2017. Delivered in 1994, this was the final locomotive to be built at the Doncaster Works site, just as RFS went into receivership.
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Stanier 'Black Five' 4-6-0 44871 coasts down the grade across Yarm viaduct in the rain on 20th March 2024 working the Railway Touring Company's 'Whitby Flyer' charter, the 1Z50 06:00 London Kings Cross to Whitby. 47815 'Great Western' was on the rear, for the reversal at Battersby Junction.
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