As the driver washes the windscreen of 220023, the guard peers down the train waiting for the RA. 220023 is about to leave Reading's newly built and opened platform three with the 09.35 Newcastle to Southampton working. I could think of better ways to make this cross-country journey from the northeast to the south coast than in a Voyager. I don't poses a pair of rose-tinted spectacles, but surely the travelling experience of loco. hauled stock of yesteryear must be better than the modern alternative?
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