Image 37800, 319373 & 319009, 10.18 Long Marston-Eastleigh Arlington (5Q86, 1E), Roade cutting
37800, 319373 & 319009, 10.18 Long Marston-Eastleigh Arlington (5Q86, 1E), Roade cutting
37800, 319373 & 319009, 10.18 Long Marston-Eastleigh Arlington (5Q86, 1E), Roade cutting Again lucky with the sun as it had just stopped raining, 37800 'Cassiopeia' is seen working hard through Roade cutting towing 319373 and 319009. The two former Thameslink units were being taken from storage at Long Marston to Eastleigh's Arlington plant for attention running as 5Q86. It is taking a very strange route from Long Marston, located just north of the Cotswold line, via Worcester, Lickey, St. Andrew's Junction, down the WCML to London (via Kensington) thence to Eastleigh. There are other far more straightforward routes that this train could have taken so I am somewhat intrigued as to why this two hundred and forty-two miles journey was chosen....advice anybody? There is an audio recording of this event on my youtube channel, see.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRZ1XSRBoOU Keywords: 37800 319373 319009 10.18 Long Marston-Eastleigh Arlington 5Q86 Roade cutting Cassiopeia
37800, 319373 & 319009, 10.18 Long Marston-Eastleigh Arlington (5Q86, 1E), Roade cutting Again lucky with the sun as it had just stopped raining, 37800 'Cassiopeia' is seen working hard through Roade cutting towing 319373 and 319009. The two former Thameslink units were being taken from storage at Long Marston to Eastleigh's Arlington plant for attention running as 5Q86. It is taking a very strange route from Long Marston, located just north of the Cotswold line, via Worcester, Lickey, St. Andrew's Junction, down the WCML to London (via Kensington) thence to Eastleigh. There are other far more straightforward routes that this train could have taken so I am somewhat intrigued as to why this two hundred and forty-two miles journey was chosen....advice anybody? There is an audio recording of this event on my youtube channel, see.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRZ1XSRBoOU Keywords: 37800 319373 319009 10.18 Long Marston-Eastleigh Arlington 5Q86 Roade cutting Cassiopeia


Again lucky with the sun as it had just stopped raining, 37800 'Cassiopeia' is seen working hard through Roade cutting towing 319373 and 319009. The two former Thameslink units were being taken from storage at Long Marston to Eastleigh's Arlington plant for attention running as 5Q86. It is taking a very strange route from Long Marston, located just north of the Cotswold line, via Worcester, Lickey, St. Andrew's Junction, down the WCML to London (via Kensington) thence to Eastleigh. There are other far more straightforward routes that this train could have taken so I am somewhat intrigued as to why this two hundred and forty-two miles journey was chosen....advice anybody?

There is an audio recording of this event on my youtube channel, see.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRZ1XSRBoOU