Guess who's front coach at Ealing Broadway on 1Z26 Bristol TM to Liverpool Lime Street via Gospel Oak!
<b>Memories of the fine art of Vac bashing</b>
Between 1983 and 1991 I spent many happy hours with my friends riding the rails behind the mighty 'Hoovers' or Class 50s on the Paddington-Oxford and Waterloo-Exeter routes, with many a ride and a drink or two in Oxford, regular forays down to Exeter, and on occasion into deepest Cornwall. 

As well as enjoying the thrash, I managed to record many of the trips and railway scenes encountered on film for posterity. Those days are now long gone, but happily the photos remain for me to reminisce over and share. ;)

Guess who's front coach at Ealing Broadway on 1Z26 Bristol TM to Liverpool Lime Street via Gospel Oak!

<b>564miles! A REAL railtour!
The Pennine Fifties
50033 + 50034 throughout</b>
Birmingham New Street - Bromsgrove - Worcester Shrub Hill - Cheltenham Spa - Dr Days Jn - Bristol Temple Meads.

Bristol Temple Meads - North Somerset Jn - Bath Spa - Bradford-on-Avon - Bradford North Jn - Bradford West Jn - Melksham - Swindon - Reading - Ealing Broadway - Willesden Junction High Level - Harringay Park Jn - Hertford North - Stevenage - (via ECML) - Doncaster - Crofton West Jn - Wakefield Kirkgate - Huddersfield - Manchester Victoria - Earlestown - Liverpool Lime Street.

Liverpool Lime Street - Runcorn - Crewe - Rugeley - Walsall - Perry Barr North Jn - Soho South Jn - Birmingham New Street - (via Camp Hill) - Barnt Green - Worcester Shrub Hill - Stroud - Swindon.
Courtesy: <a href="https://www.sixbellsjunction.co.uk/80s/881022pt.htm" rel="noreferrer nofollow">www.sixbellsjunction.co.uk/80s/881022pt.htm</a>

Taken with a Kodak Instamatic! <b>Scanned direct from a print without digital restoration</b>

You can see a random selection of my railway photos here on Flickriver: <a href="http://www.flickriver.com/photos/themightyhood/random/" rel="noreferrer nofollow">www.flickriver.com/photos/themightyhood/random/</a>
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