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The Spinnaker Tower is very photogenic
Ham | Homepage | 28.08.08 - 8:45 a.m. | #
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The Isle of Wight. Proof that time travel exists.
Debster | Homepage | 28.08.08 - 9:07 a.m. | #
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I've never made it onto the Island, in spite of spending a great deal of time just the other side of the water from it. Keep meaning to for the tubegeekery, I think the last time I used the 1938 stock I would have been in a buggy!
The Island line is one of two unusual operations under South West Trains, there's another just across the water in the form of the Brockenhurst - Lymington 'heritage' line: the last normal rail service in the country to be run with slamdoor stock (except when it isn't, SWT sub it with a normal train sometimes). For anyone who wants to reminicise the 'good old days' (so, er, 2002) crowded into the dim light of the guards compartment travelling in through South London in the morning rush hour, you too can relive that 'true' cattle experience, staring at slats of wood.. though the Lymington service does rarely get busy. Perhaps if you ask the guard nicely.
Nico | Homepage | 28.08.08 - 3:23 p.m. | #
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We so very nearly ended up in the same place last weekend, but I didn't go in the end and didn't fancy the weather.
Pamela | Homepage | 29.08.08 - 3:07 a.m. | #
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More rail trivia: Island Line is the last Network Rail route on which stock belonging to one of the pre-British Railways "Big Four" railway companies is in normal service. Because the outer reaches of the Northern and Central lines were owned by the London & North Eastern Railway before electrification, some of the 1938 stock belonged (on paper) to them before Nationalisation.
Forest Pines | Homepage | 31.08.08 - 10:35 a.m. | #
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