A bit of a mystery train this one from the logs of John Bull with thanks. This train was presumably Mk I’s as loadings varied from load 8 -9. We assume the train stopped at Winchester and Basingstoke en route to Farnborough where JB joined. After Farnborough this Mon-Fri peak hour service called at the unit dominated Brookwood, Woking and Surbiton.
JB has only 20 logs of the train between Oct – Nov 73 but this working produced at least 15 different locos incl class 33, 73 and 74 suggesting an early morning ECS turn from Clapham Yard to Soton to form the 0728. This may have been a temporary vice unit turn hence it’s short term nature.
The known workings gen…(load 8 except where stated)
E6104 – 011073
E6047 – 021073
E6110 – 031073
E6105 – 041073
E6110 – 051073
E6023 – 081073
E6103 – 111073
E6105 – 121073
E6032 – 181073
E6101 – 191073
E6109 – 221073 (load 9)
E6105 – 241073 (load 9)
E6105 – 261073 (load 9)
E6019 – 011173 (load 9)
E6108 – 021173
6517 – 051173
E6020 – 071173
E6103 – 091173
E6108 – 121173
E6108 – 161173 (load 9)
The 0728 loco list…(13 locos)
Class 33 – 6517 (later 33105)……..1
Class 73 – E 6019 (later 73113), E 6020 (later 73114), E 6023 (later 73117), E 6032 (later 73125) , E 6047 (later 73140)…..5
Class 74 – E6101 (later 74001), E 6103 (later 74003), E 6104 (later 74004), E 6105 (later 74005) , E 6108 (later 74008), E 6109 (later 74009), E 6110 (later 74010)…7
Any more gen on this fascinating Southern working very welcome…
Thanks to John Williams for this fine view of 74004 which worked the 0728 as E6104 at least once, is seen in Clapham yard on July 2nd 1977, a few months before withdrawl.
Sad Footnote – The 0728 ex Soton served Woking which for a while was the base of well respected enthusiast Dave Newman who sadly passed away a few days ago…….
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