Image 33027 & 33042, 13.40 Exeter St. David's-Brighton, 25058, ECS & 47090, 10.27 London Paddington-Paignton, Exeter St. David's station
33027 & 33042, 13.40 Exeter St. David's-Brighton, 25058, ECS & 47090, 10.27 London Paddington-Paignton, Exeter St. David's station
33027 & 33042, 13.40 Exeter St. David's-Brighton, 25058, ECS & 47090, 10.27 London Paddington-Paignton, Exeter St. David's station With spotters gathering at their usual haunt just above the platform ramp at Exeter St. David's a busy scene is in view with all of the platforms occupied by trains. 47090 'Vulcan' has just arrived leading the 10.27 Paddington to Paignton express service and will soon be on its way. Next to the Class 47 is Type 2 25058 that has worked a train in from Barnstaple. Soon it will run round its stock and head back whence it came. The pair of 33s, 33027 and 33043, have just run round their rake of Mk.1s and will leave soon with the 13.40 to Brighton. Last, but not least, the tail of a Mk.1 coach is seen at the rear of the 10.36 Newquay to Paddington train. Of the four locomotives in this view, only the Class 47 is still with us and running on the mainline as 47843 operated by RivieraTrains painted in the Company's own version of BR's blue and yellow livery. 25058 moved to the northwest and was named 'Castell Criccieth/Criccieth Castle'. 33027 was to become a celebrity locomotive within a few months of this date, being repainted and named 'Earl Mountbatten of Burma' following it being one of the locomotives that hauled Mountbatten's funeral train the previous year. Ironically, earlier in the day, we had travelled behind the other locomotive involved in the funeral train that had already been treated and recognised, see..... https://www.ontheupfast.com/p/21936chg/29422474804/x33008-06-53-bristol-temple-meads There is an audio recording of this event on my youtube channel, see...https://youtu.be/-pH1wWB8WQk Keywords: 33027 33042 13.40 Exeter St. David's-Brighton 25058 ECS 47090, 10.27 London Paddington-Paignton Exeter St. David's station
33027 & 33042, 13.40 Exeter St. David's-Brighton, 25058, ECS & 47090, 10.27 London Paddington-Paignton, Exeter St. David's station With spotters gathering at their usual haunt just above the platform ramp at Exeter St. David's a busy scene is in view with all of the platforms occupied by trains. 47090 'Vulcan' has just arrived leading the 10.27 Paddington to Paignton express service and will soon be on its way. Next to the Class 47 is Type 2 25058 that has worked a train in from Barnstaple. Soon it will run round its stock and head back whence it came. The pair of 33s, 33027 and 33043, have just run round their rake of Mk.1s and will leave soon with the 13.40 to Brighton. Last, but not least, the tail of a Mk.1 coach is seen at the rear of the 10.36 Newquay to Paddington train. Of the four locomotives in this view, only the Class 47 is still with us and running on the mainline as 47843 operated by RivieraTrains painted in the Company's own version of BR's blue and yellow livery. 25058 moved to the northwest and was named 'Castell Criccieth/Criccieth Castle'. 33027 was to become a celebrity locomotive within a few months of this date, being repainted and named 'Earl Mountbatten of Burma' following it being one of the locomotives that hauled Mountbatten's funeral train the previous year. Ironically, earlier in the day, we had travelled behind the other locomotive involved in the funeral train that had already been treated and recognised, see..... https://www.ontheupfast.com/p/21936chg/29422474804/x33008-06-53-bristol-temple-meads There is an audio recording of this event on my youtube channel, see...https://youtu.be/-pH1wWB8WQk Keywords: 33027 33042 13.40 Exeter St. David's-Brighton 25058 ECS 47090, 10.27 London Paddington-Paignton Exeter St. David's station


With spotters gathering at their usual haunt just above the platform ramp at Exeter St. David's a busy scene is in view with all of the platforms occupied by trains. 47090 'Vulcan' has just arrived leading the 10.27 Paddington to Paignton express service and will soon be on its way. Next to the Class 47 is Type 2 25058 that has worked a train in from Barnstaple. Soon it will run round its stock and head back whence it came. The pair of 33s, 33027 and 33043, have just run round their rake of Mk.1s and will leave soon with the 13.40 to Brighton. Last, but not least, the tail of a Mk.1 coach is seen at the rear of the 10.36 Newquay to Paddington train. Of the four locomotives in this view, only the Class 47 is still with us and running on the mainline as 47843 operated by RivieraTrains painted in the Company's own version of BR's blue and yellow livery. 25058 moved to the northwest and was named 'Castell Criccieth/Criccieth Castle'. 33027 was to become a celebrity locomotive within a few months of this date, being repainted and named 'Earl Mountbatten of Burma' following it being one of the locomotives that hauled Mountbatten's funeral train the previous year. Ironically, earlier in the day, we had travelled behind the other locomotive involved in the funeral train that had already been treated and recognised, see..... https://www.ontheupfast.com/p/21936chg/29422474804/x33008-06-53-bristol-temple-meads

There is an audio recording of this event on my youtube channel, see...https://youtu.be/-pH1wWB8WQk