Banbury 26.09.04

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Yesterday I was travelling up to Newcastle from Southampton (went home for the weekend), although picked the wrong weekend for engineering works, bus from Southampton-Winchester and Reading-Banbury, hour and a half wait at Banbury, and a change at York...total journey time, 11 hours 30 minutes (usually about 6). Here are a few photos I got at Banbury:

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A Chiltern 168 heading for Marylbone (I think)

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A northbound 165/166

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A Voyager heading north (this arrived about 10 mins after I did, but was going up the west coast not the east coast

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Two Voyagers linked up (unusual nowadays?) going south

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What time did you see the double voyager?
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Hmmm...probably about three o'clock - three thirty I think, but I'm not entirely sure

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Yeah that double VV is unusual - i saw one a while back in the summer holidays at winchester but otherwise i haven't seen one of those for ages. Was it going to Bourenmouth or the South West?

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Actually it wasn't going much further - the engineering works had closed much of the line from Reading - Banbury, so I'd had a bus ride from Reading (and Southampton-Winchester too). Still, eleven and a half hours from Southampton-Newcastle isn't that bad...

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trains2 wrote:Yeah that double VV is unusual - i saw one a while back in the summer holidays at winchester but otherwise i haven't seen one of those for ages. Was it going to Bourenmouth or the South West?

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There are quite a few double voyagers about that are booked for certain serveces. Even more now after this timetable change.
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Plymouth - Glasgow is booked double voyager
London - Holyhead is or will be if there isnt enough pendolinos.
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