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Old 11th February 2009, 21:26
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Originally Posted by Gandalf View Post
We went to Guernsey from Weymouth back on 1981,
Sadly the train journey is now but a faint memory but we must have returned to London by rail after the holiday in the opposite direction through the town. Would we have had one of those Southern electric cum diesels on the front? Again memory has failed although I can remember steam at Yarmouth and Lowestoft along the roads which must have been around 1960 or maybe a little earlier.
Maybe before senility really strikes home I'll remrember some of those old times.
John (G)
John, here's one of the Weymouth-Waterloo boat trains taken in 1983. The loco is a Class 33 diesel.
http://www.railwayforum.net/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=7948&cat=500&ppuser=40
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