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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