Re: HST(XPT) Horns

[Tim Arnot <timarnot@fastlink.com.au>]

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Another good place in the UK - well, in 1981 anyway - was at Iver, which
is near Reading on the GW main line.

No doubt there are many more better spots again, perhaps the hilly parts
in the West but with less trains than closer in to London.

Cheers
Tim

Ian and Barbara Brady wrote:
> 
> Aus loco discussion mailing list
> 
> Ross,
> I have also been to Didcot and experienced the same thing as you noted. But
> mosst HSTs stop there now and a lot of the fun has gone. I was there last
> October.
> 
> BUT a heary experience was standing on a platform at Finsbury Park just
> north of Kings Cross, London, and having a very hard working HST go past
> you at plus 110kph - very noisy!! There are still a few HSTs working on
> that line among many electrics.
> 

-- 
Timothy Arnot

e-mail to timarnot@fastlink.com.au


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