Stopping trains cross at Fareham, with contrasting locomotives
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Stopping trains cross at Fareham, with contrasting locomotives
Image: © Ben Brooksbank Taken: 5 Feb 1955
View SE from the Up platform, towards Portsmouth etc. sharply round to the left, the Gosport branch being straight ahead (closed to passengers 8/6/53, completely 6/10/69); behind the camera the lines went to Southampton via Netley, to Eastleigh, also to Alton (closed this day). The Portsmouth - Southampton train arriving has Maunsell U class 2-6-0 No. 31808 (built 11/26 as 'River' class 2-6-4T No. A808 'River Char', rebuilt as a 2-6-0 7/28, withdrawn 1/64). The Southampton - Portsmouth train on the left has LMS-type Ivatt 2MT class 2-6-2T No. 41305 (built Crewe 5/52 - for the SR, withdrawn 5/65).
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Image Location
Latitude
50.853152
Longitude
-1.192475