South Wales Weekend explorer January 78
The South Wales Weekend Explorer ticket was valid from 1800 hrs Fri – 2359 Sun over a vast area from Swansea to Bristol plus the valleys and Newport-Hereford-Worcester-Glos-Bristol, all for £3.90! With a Friday night overnight it was easy to amass 1,000 mainly steam heat miles…Happy days!
The moves below feature much steam heat, all is very much the usual stuff,
the 31 was booked on the Fishguard H-Padd, as was the 33 on the Sun Cardiff-Pompey.
An “Explorer” ticket from a few weeks earlier.
13/1/78 Fr
43037/036 1843 Swansea-Padd Swansea-Cardiff
45040 2005 Cardiff-Crewe Cardiff-Newport
47513 1855 Padd-Swansea Newport-Cardiff
37188 2125 Swansea-Bristol TM Cardiff-T.Meads
14/1/78 Sa
37188 0114 Bristol TM-Milford H T.Meads-Newport
47157 0050 Padd-Milford H Newport-Cardiff
31209 0110 Fishguard H-Padd Cardiff-Newport
46015 0147 Crewe-Cardiff Newport-Cardiff
46025 0532 Cardiff-Crewe Cardiff-Hereford
47513 0712 Hereford-Padd Hereford-Worcester FS
51315/59482/51330 0700 Birmingham-Hereford Worcester FS-Malvern Link
47121 0808 Hereford-Padd Malvern Link-Worcester SH
45046 0639 Leeds-Paignton Worcester SH-Cheltenham
45076 0830 Manchester-Swansea Cheltenham-Gloucester
50027 0923 Padd-Worcester Gloucester-Cheltenham
47262 0920 Liverpool-Penzance Cheltenham-Gloucester
47291 0920 Liverpool-Penzance Gloucester-T.Meads
50017 1110 Plymouth-Manchester T.Meads-Bristol Parkway
43011/010 1245 Padd-Cardiff Bristol Parkway-Cardiff
46025 1510 Cardiff-Crewe Cardiff-Newport
25038 1222 Crewe-Cardiff Newport-Cardiff
43011/010 1550 Cardiff-Padd Cardiff-Newport
50666/59286/50712 1610 Newport-Gloucester Newport-Gloucester
47185 1440 Leeds-Plymouth Gloucester-T.Meads
31422 1919 Bristol TM-Portsmouth H T.Meads-Bath
31414 1656 Portsmouth-Bristol TM Bath-T.Meads
46045 2110 Bristol-Edin/Glasgow T.Meads-Bristol Parkway
43021/43020 2015 Padd-Swansea Bristol Parkway-Swansea
15/1/78 Su
43044/045 1445 Swansea-Padd Swansea-Cardiff
45022 1555 Cardiff-Newcastle Cardiff-Newport
47109 1350 Padd-Swansea Newport-Cardiff
46025 1610 Swansea-Manchester Cardiff-Newport
47166 1750 Cardiff-Portsmouth H Newport-T.Meads
33007 1750 Cardiff-Portsmouth H T.Meads-Bath
31419 1711 Portsmouth H-Bristol TM Bath-T.Meads
46008 1815 Plymouth-Cardiff T.Meads-Newport
47098 xxxx Padd-Swansea Adex Newport-Swansea
Phot Spot
On a “South Wales Weekend Explorer” you had major depots like Canton and Bath Road to keep an eye on. This is Bath Road in April 84
47513 was out in Jan 78, she was always out!, a clean 47513 is heading West at New St on 170684
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