AXMINSTER-WOKING: 2.17pm EXETER ST DAVIDS-WATERLOO
Engine: Class 50 no 50043 Eagle
Load: 9 coaches, 289 tons tare, 305 tons full.
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miles m/sec mi/hr
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0.00 AXMINSTER 0:00
3.27 mp 141.25 (Broom) 4:14 66
5.08 Chard Jc SB 5:51 72
6.02 mp 138.5 6:36 70
9.27 mp 135.25 9:11 79
11.27 mp 133.25 10:46 72
easy
13.09 CREWKERNE 13:03
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0.00 0:00
1.93 mp 129.5 2:41 69/68
3.43 mp 128 (Hardington) 3:54 77/79
5.18 mp 126.25 5:15 76
6.58 Sutton Bingham 6:17 85
easy
8.82 YEOVIL JUNCTION 9:09
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0.00 0:00
1.87 mp 120.75 (Wyke) 2:46 62
3.62 mp 119 4:16 73
4.57 SHERBORNE 5:48
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0.00 0:00
2.56 mp 115.5 3:58 47
3.67 Milborne Port 5:10 63
5.05 mp 113 6:25 70
6.06 TEMPLECOMBE 8:00
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0.00 0:00
2.24 mp 109.75 2:40 75
4.50 mp 107.5 (Buckhorn T) 4:33 69
79
6.74 GILLINGHAM 6:57
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0.00 0:00
2.27 mp 103 3:30 54
4.11 Semley 5:30 56
7.77 mp 97.5 8:21 88
9.10 TISBURY 10:03
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0.00 0:00
4.33 Dinton 4:28 86/88
7.19 mp 89 6:32 74
10.06 Wilton South 9:12 42*
11.69 mp 84.5 11:06 60
12.57 SALISBURY 13:11
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0.00 0:00
1.13 Tunnel Jc SB 2:07 47
2.53 mp 81 3:38 64
5.53 mp 78 (Porton) 6:19 69
8.03 mp 75.5 (Amesbury) 8:26 75
10.92 Grateley 10:38 86
14.53 mp 69 13:03 90
16.03 mp 67.5 (Red Post) 14:09 easy
17.28 ANDOVER JUNCTION 16:01
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0.00 0:00
1.75 mp 64.5 2:43 57
3.75 mp 62.5 4:40 64
5.25 mp 61 (Hurstbourne) 5:55 78
7.15 Whitchurch 7:22 78.6 av
10.79 Overton 9:56 85.1 av
13.94 Oakley 12:05 87.9 av
16.04 mp 50.25 (Worting) 13:50 72.0 av
18.56 BASINGSTOKE 16:57
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0.00 0:00
5.59 Hook 5:22
7.96 Winchfield 6:56 90.7 av
11.30 Fleet 9:03 94.7 av
14.56 Farnborough 11:12 91.0 av
19.79 Brookwood 14:33 93.7 av
sigs 15*
23.47 WOKING 19:49
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Date: Saturday 7th January 1989:
dep: Axminster 3.01pm
arr: Woking 5.17pm
Comments: A brilliantly sunny January day, and a
locomotive that looked and sounded superb. "Eagle"
immediately became my favourite "Fifty".
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