| The Class 73 Electro-diesels (EDs) had a variety of passenger and freight duties around the Southern Region, where their versatility was much valued, and indeed it still is. There are a number of long lost freight workings illustrated here, usually taken on dull, grey days, but I hope the interest value outways the technical quality of the image. |
73004 hurries through Cuxton Station on a very dull 24th August 1983 with 6Y80, the 0955 Southampton Up Yard-Halling RPCM empty cement PCAs. |
73108 was photographed on another dullish day passing Hither Green with the 7Y79 1230 Hoo Junc-New Cross Gate Yd on 1st August 1983. |
73114 was caught stabled between duties in Rochester Yard on 24th August 1983. |
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73120 arrives at Dover Town Yard on 26th August 1983 with 6O56, the 1510 Speedlink from Dundee West Yard, having worked the train from Willesden Brent. |
73123 runs through Sandwich station with the 6K82 0950 Betteshanger Colliery-Strood CCD on 26th August 1983. There was a supprising amount of coal trafffic still running in Kent in the early '80s. |
After arrival from Victoria with the "Orient Express" on 26th August 1983, 73129 "City of Winchester" will assist 33044 with the ECS from Folkestone Harbour to Folkstone Central. |
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73130 departs right time from Strood Yard with the 6K83 1237 Strood Coal Depot-Betteshanger Colliery empties on 24th August 1983. |
73130 and 73106 speed through Eastleigh with 1W14, the 0846 Poole-Waterloo, vice a Class 442 "Wessex Express" unit on 7th September 1988. |
One of the shortest freight flows was the Lavant-Drayton stone. Here 73135 departs from Drayton on 7th September 1988 with the 6J37, 1342 empties to Lavant Tarmac. |
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73135 was then caught running past Chichester Yard on 7th September 1988 with the 6J37 1342 Drayton-Lavant empties. |
Finally, we caught 73135 running round the 6J37 1342 empties from Drayton prior to loading 6J38 at the Tarmac terminal at Lavant on 7th September 1988 |
