SHERBORNE-BASINGSTOKE: 2.20pm EXETER SD-WATERLOO                       
                                                                          
     Engine: Class 47 no 47810          
     Load: 8 coaches, 257 tons tare, 270 tons full
     (Rake of IC Mk 2 FO's)         
                                                                          
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     miles                                 m/sec    mi/hr                 
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      0.00  SHERBORNE                       0:00                          
      2.56  mp 115.5                        4:00      48                    
      3.67  Milborne Port                   5:10      65                    
      5.05  mp 113                          6:25      68
      6.06  TEMPLECOMBE                     7:58                          
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      0.00                                  0:00                          
      2.24  mp 109.75                       2:44      75                    
      4.50  mp 107.5 (Buckhorn T)           4:34      71
                                                      80
      6.74  GILLINGHAM                      7:05                         
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      0.00                                  0:00                          
      2.27  mp 103                          3:27      55
      4.11  Semley                          5:26      58                    
      7.77  mp 97.5                         8:17      84 
      9.10  TISBURY                        10:02                          
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      0.00                                  0:00                          
      4.33  Dinton                          4:46     84/86                     
      7.19  mp 89                           6:49      80                    
     10.06  Wilton South                    9:22      41*                    
     11.69  mp 84.5                        11:22      57                    
     12.57  SALISBURY                      13:12                         
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      0.00                                  0:00                          
      1.13  Tunnel Jc SB                    2:29      49                    
      2.53  mp 81                           3:49      63                          
      5.53  mp 78 (Porton)                  5:37      68                    
      8.03  mp 75.5 (Amesbury)              8:33      76                    
     10.92  Grateley                       10:43     83/85                    
     14.53  mp 69                          13:19      76                         
     16.03  mp 67.5 (Red Post)             14:30      52                    
     17.28  ANDOVER JUNCTION               16:48                         
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      0.00                                  0:00                          
      1.75  mp 64.5                         2:47      55
      5.25  mp 61 (Hurstbourne)             sigs       0*                   
      7.15  Whitchurch                     11:59      62                    
     10.79  Overton                        14:57      81                    
     13.94  Oakley                         17:11      85                    
     15.29  mp 51                          18:18      68*
     16.04  mp 50.25 (Worting)             18:56      71                    
     17.29  mp 49                           sigs      40*
     18.56  BASINGSTOKE                    22:47                          
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     Date: 25th November 1989:                     
                                                                          
     dep: Sherborne 3.38pm   
     arr: Basingstoke 5.07pm

     Comments: No idea why a 47 with a train of Mk2 FO's
     turned up. Presumably something fairly drastic at 
     Laira. But no complaints, since a Mk2 FO is just
     about the most comfortable carriage ever to run in
     Britain. And the 47 ran well.
                                                                          
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