The snow is beginning to melt from the platforms at Bristol Temple Meads as a Southern Region DEMU arrives with a Portsmouth Harbour to Bristol working. It's 85 reporting number indicates a Portsmouth Harbour to Southampton or Romsey stopper working. By 1978 these English Electric powered units were not as common as they had been on these services, so Is suspect that the weather had a hand to play in this working. I was lucky enough to take this unit as my return train back to Bath a little later in the day.
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