| The VSOE stock was hired by Bath Travel for a Private Charter to Basingstoke and back to provide Lunch for some Dorset folk not affected by the Credit Crunch. A Couple also decided to finish off their Wedding Album by having photos taken with the train after going on Honeymoon together on the Orient Express!! |
67002 'Special Delivery' heads the 5Z91 ECS from Stewarts Lane to Bournemouth. The train is een here passing Christchurch running 10 mins late Buy Print |
444006 heads to London with the 10.20 service from Weymouth Buy Print |
With 67021 now leading, the 1Z91 to Basingstoke roars through Christchurch Buy Print |
67021 is still leading as the train approaches Bournemouth on its way to Poole. Note the Wedding couple on the Platform Buy Print |
67021 coasts through Bouremouth at just after 3pm with 1Z92 from Basingstoke Buy Print |
67002 is now on the rear as the train passes under the Wessex Way at Bournemouth Buy Print |
1Z93 from Poole sits at Bournemouth and the attendants watch the passengers leave the train, full of food and champagne!! Buy Print |
All the Pullman carriages are named Buy Print |
A shot of a metal plate attatched to all the carriages showing the date and place they were built. AUDREY is of 1928 vintage Buy Print |
67002 soaks up the Sun Buy Print |
A view of the table and table lamps that make the VSOE Buy Print |
One of the attendants shows off his smart uniform Buy Print |
The VSOE sits in platform 3 while the 15.03 Weymouth-Waterloo is ready for departure in Platform 2 at 15.59 Buy Print |
The happy couple apparently met each other travelling on trains in Europe then had their Honeymoon on the VSOE, so these pictures finish off their Wedding album Buy Print |
After getting serviced and watered at Bournemouth Depot the VSOE went ECS to Southampton Parkway to work a boat train to Victoria. This view sees 67021 on the rear of the train shortly after it has passed through Brockenhurst Buy Print |
The sun has just dipped down behind the buildings at Lymington Town casting shadows over the 100's of boats at the Marina Buy Print |
'Kiring' has returned to the Marina after an absence of a couple of months, the owners no doubt have been to sunnier climbs after our Summer washout Buy Print |
Taken later at the Marina at Lymington at dusk shows the last of that evenings sunset. The most spectacular shot was missed while we were en route to Brockenhurst but not a bad substitute Buy Print |
