34016 'Bodmin' is seen running tender first leaving Ropley passing its up distant fixed signal. It is leading the 13.55 Ropley to New Alresford service on the Mid-Hants Railway often referred to as the Watercress Line. Whilst the former Longmoor Military Railway 196 'Errol Lonsdale' was entrusted with three coaches, the former Southern Region Pacific hauls five. Both locomotives would hardly be taxed by these loads!
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