MID HANTS RAILWAY: ROPLEY to ALTON & RETURN  
                                                                    
     Engine: 31874 (N class 2-6-0)         
     Load: 5 coaches, 171 tons tare, 185 tons full,
     plus M7 tank locomotive no 245 (say 62 tons)
     total load 247 tons.                                                        
                                                                    
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     miles                              m/sec    mi/hr           
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      0.00  ROPLEY                       0:00                    
      0.90  mp 55.75                     3:42      23             
      1.65  mp 55                        5:49      21              
      2.65  mp 54                        8:32      22 
      3.09  MEDSTEAD & FOUR MARKS       10:19                    
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      0.00                               0:00                    
      0.80  Hampshire Hunt OB            3:01      28             
      1.50  Brick Kiln Lane UB           4:30      30              
      2.64  Chalk Dell UB                6:36      34                    
      3.32  Butts Jn UB                  7:59                    
      3.89  Mt Pleasant OB               9:07                   
      4.29  Alton SB                    10:52     easy 
      4.41  ALTON                       11:40                    
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      0.00                               0:00     
      0.12  Alton SB                     1:02     easy
      0.52  Mt Pleasant OB               3:25                   
      1.09  Butts Jn UB                  4:41      24              
      1.77  Chalk Dell UB                6:21      25              
      2.91  Brick Kiln Lane UB           9:03      25              
      3.61  Hampshire Hunt OB           10:43      26              
      4.16  Boyneswood OB               12:20     easy
                    
      4.41  MEDSTEAD & FOUR MARKS       13:53                    
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      0.00                               0:00                    
      1.44  mp 55                        4:16     28/25             
      2.19  mp 55.75                     5:56      30                    
      3.09  ROPLEY                       8:33                    
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     Date: Saturday 1st July 1989
     11.52am ex Alresford, 1.10pm ex Alton.     
                                                                    
     dep: Ropley 12.24pm                                                           
     arr: Alton 1.07pm
     dep: Alton 1.36pm
     arr: Ropley 2.00pm                                                           
                                                                    
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