Class 74 on boat train in Southampton Docks

[PhilH]

...here

 

Smart looking train.

Edited March 28, 2015 by PhilH

[pete_mcfarlane]

Nice photo but that's class 74, not a 71. 

[PhilH]

I did alter it straight away, but guess you were too quick with the correction...

Edited March 28, 2015 by PhilH

[jonny777]

That is a rather unusual funnel arrangement on the ship in the background.

[petethemole]

That's the old P&O Oriana.  http://www.shipspotting.com/gallery/photo.php?lid=1920403

 

Pete

 

Edited to add link

Edited March 28, 2015 by petethemole

[jonny777]

So it is.

 

Thanks for that photo. I'm learning new things every day.

[Dava]

Good to see real 60s-70s loco, train, ship, docks, cars, bike....

 

Dava

[Foulounoux]

Having been in southampton yesterday and seeing Britannia ready for her maiden voyage I made the posting on facebook regarding the backdrop. The new liners are like skyscrapers when you are driving alongside them

 

Colin

[AberdeenBill]

Lovely photo...    No fewer than four of the Southern Region Mk2 corridor firsts (delivered in green) in the train...

 

Bill

[montyburns56]

 

 

 

 

 

[Wickham Green too]

On 29/03/2015 at 16:58, Foulounoux said:

........... The new liners are like skyscrapers when you are driving alongside them

 

Colin

..... but there are proper ships there too !

 

[Joseph_Pestell]

I think that all the photos so far are from the era where the trains are serving cruise liners.

 

I can just recall, as a small child, travelling up on a boat train connecting with a cross-channel ferry. It was the only time that I had Afternoon Tea on a train.

[The Stationmaster]

18 hours ago, Joseph_Pestell said:

I think that all the photos so far are from the era where the trains are serving cruise liners.

 

I can just recall, as a small child, travelling up on a boat train connecting with a cross-channel ferry. It was the only time that I had Afternoon Tea on a train.

Not necessarily.  QE2 was operating regular transatlantic trips into the 1970s so photos could well be of 'proper' boat trains.   

 

And the term 'cruise liner' is really an oxymoron although nowadays the QM2, which very definitely is a cruise ship design, does operate what amounts to an occasional liner service across the Atlantic, i.e. she operates pre-advertised regular  timetabled sailings between two (or more) ports on which passengers and freight can be booked to travel from one port to another.   Cruise ships don't do that - you join at A and wherever you might go in between you usually finish up disembarking back at A.

[Wickham Green too]

4 hours ago, The Stationmaster said:

.......... - you join at A and wherever you might go in between you usually finish up disembarking back at A.

I've never cruised on anything larger than S.S. Shieldhall - above - but from what I've heard a lot of cruise 'packages' involve flying from wherever to A, cruising to B and flying home - so the ship has a far longer circuit, carrying different passengers for different segments. ( No doubt the whole thing's available, complete, if you've got the dosh .... and the patience ! )