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And an interesting EMU behind the 73 on the right. Looks like an all blue front end, unless the yellow panel was very small. I'm reading the unit number on the end as 3114, although I may be mistaken.

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Definitely 4-Cor units. Most likely on a Waterloo-Reading line service. I'd say this is most likely late 60's, probably around 1968'ish with the small yellow panel on the Cor....

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From shunting to express duties...

 

1984, 73005 shuffling wagons in Rochester goods yard:

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And from 1988, an unidentified 73/1 with three quarters of a 4-REP and a 4-TC on Waterloo/Bournemouth/Weymouth duties while the REP traction motors were being recycled into class 442s:

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2 hours ago, Geep7 said:

Definitely 4-Cor units. Most likely on a Waterloo-Reading line service. I'd say this is most likely late 60's, probably around 1968'ish with the small yellow panel on the Cor....

 

Both the 33 and the 73 in the pic have the new data panel vinyl stickers which would make it mid '68 at the very earliest ;)

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8 hours ago, Rugd1022 said:

 

Both the 33 and the 73 in the pic have the new data panel vinyl stickers which would make it mid '68 at the very earliest ;)

As someone who first saw 4-CORs in about 1971 (on the West Coastway, might have been late 1970, but all my photos were from 71), and remembers that some were as faded as that one except with full yellow ends), I'm shocked at how quickly the one in the pic must have faded.

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On 16/05/2020 at 20:56, Geep7 said:

Definitely 4-Cor units. Most likely on a Waterloo-Reading line service. I'd say this is most likely late 60's, probably around 1968'ish with the small yellow panel on the Cor....

 

Thank you. Should have realised myself with the preserved unit, 3142, being in the same number series.

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My first railway photographs since February!

 

 

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73961 heads 73965 southbound through Pulborough with the 11:31 Tonbridge West - Seaford track recording train. Running about 30 minutes late at this point.

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A few from my collection - dated May 2016 and used with photographer's permission.

 

73138 on road 18 at the RTC site.

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73139 was vinyled up to advertise RVEL - visible from passing trains.

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The other side was plain grey

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This is from May 2013 - showing 73211/73104 stripped back to bare metal and new plating welded into place. They were to become 73951/73952

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73961 with a Dollands Moor - Derby test train at Sandling today:

 

73961 - Sandling

 

 

19 hours ago, Claude_Dreyfus said:

More track recording action at Pulborough. 73961 heads the 11:31 Tonbridge West Yard - Seaford on 24th September. I didn't catch the identity of its trailing class-mate.

 

 

Presumably this was the same ensemble - if so, it was 73965 at the rear.

 

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Realtime Trains was reporting something interesting today. A mystery Southern service running between Hastings, Brighton, Bognor, and thence the Stewarts Lane. It was pathed as a diesel engine. Intriguing...and there was one candidate which came to mind; 73202, which I hadn't yet seen in its Southern Garb.

 

Given the South west to North East direction of the Arun Valley line through my local station, the evening sun meant I needed to be a little more adventurous trying to get a picture. This picture was taken just below Pulborough Castle - basically a pile of earth.

 

My hunch was right, and bang on time 73202 headed along the embankment across the Arun flood plain forming the 0Z53 15:18 Bognor - Stewarts Line TMD. Sadly a combination of light, zoom and the fact it was moving quite swiftly conspired against me, and the loco is a bit blurred. Still, you can tell what it is... Any bright ideas what the purpose of this manoeuvre was? 

 

 

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73s on RHTT action, and the first this winter I have managed to catch.

 

 

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73109 heads the 10:35 Tonbridge West Yard - Tonbridge West Yard southbound through Pulborough station. I quite like the fighter plane motif on the cabsides...

 

 

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73201 was at the other end, seem here on the return journey.

 

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Just over two months later, another 73 from the same location.

 

 

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73119 operates the 0Y73 12:00 Tonbridge - Tonbridge via Chichester light engine move. Perhaps a route learning journey?

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Eastleigh Works Centenary Open Day in May 2009 was a great day out with all sorts on display.

Some 73's:

 73006 looking good

 

 

73006 and 73109 glisten in the sunlight

 

 

 

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