?? August 1976

British Rail
(Day Excursion)

Locos Used 47437 & 50005

Route :

Loco(s) Route
47437 Plymouth - Exeter - Taunton - Newbury - Reading - Ealing Broadway - Old Oak East Jn - North Pole Jn - Kensington Olympia - Herne Hill - Bromley South - St Mary Cray Jn - Rochester - Margate - Ramsgate
47437 (2) Ramsgate - (reverse of outward route) - Newbury - Cogload Jn
50005 (3) Taunton - Exeter - Plymouth
50005 Taunton - Exeter - Plymouth

Notes :
(1) Believed may have been the Sunday or Monday of the August Bank Holiday weekend.
(2) 47437 ran out of fuel at Cogload Jn.
(3) With 47437 dead-in-tow.

Source : Martin McLean

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