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50025 'Invincible' Class 50 seen on a photo-stop at Bat & Ball station with 1Z25 'The Vulcan Vantrain' railtour
Sat. 15th March 1986 1Z25 - 'The Vulcan Vantrain' railtour, 'Hoover' 50025 'Invincible' is seen here with 1Z25 'The Vulcan Vantrain' railtour on a photo-stop at Bat & Ball station, on the outward run between Swanley and Tonbridge., , The Class 50 took the tour from London Paddington to Hastings via Greenford East Jn - Greenford South Jn - Drayton Green - Ealing Broadway - Kensington Olympia - Clapham Junction - Beckenham Junction - Swanley - Tonbridge - Wadhurst!, And then on the return from Ashford back to London Paddington via Maidstone - Swanley - New Beckenham - Lewisham - Brixton - Clapham Junction - Mitcham Junction - West Croydon - Selhurst - Clapham Junction - and then the reverse of the outward route., , The railtour, organised by the Southern Electric Group (SEG) and the Locomotive Club of Great Britain (LCGB) covered some very rare track for a Class 50, the highlight being the first ever visit of a Class 50 to Hastings and also the first standard loading gauge Mark 1 loco hauled train to traverse the line from Tonbridge to Hastings. , , 185 miles of Class 50 haulage ;), , More on the railtour here: www.sixbellsjunction.co.uk/80s/860315lc.htm, , Locomotive History, D425 entered service 08-Jun-68, Renumbered 50025 in 1974, Named 'Invincible' 06-Jun-78, Withdrawn 14-Aug-89, , 50025 'Invincible' was one of the early casualties, becoming the eleventh Class 50 to be withdrawn, on 14th August 1989 after sustaining major damage in the West Ealing crash. The locomotive languished at Old Oak Common for a few months before being broken up on site by Vic Berry's - one of eleven Class 50s to end their days on Old Oak Common shed. A sad end to a fine machine., , Taken with a Zenith TTL SLR camera and standard lens. Scanned from the original negative with no digital restoration, , You can see a random selection of my railway photos here on Flickriver: www.flickriver.com/photos/themightyhood/random/
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