Basingstoke Open Day 26/9/87

Evening All

I have added a collection of Open Day photos by Alan Costello of the Basingstoke Open Day 26-9-87

plenty of Current locos & preserved diesels on display, also photos of 3 passing railtours
D200 (40122) The Hampshire Whistler railtour Basingstoke Open Day 26-9-87
http://tinyurl.com/oqrfs9n

37116 passing by with the Ludgershall Limited Basingstoke Open Day 26-9-87
http://tinyurl.com/oqpnghl

33111 passing by on 'Bournemouth Belle' Basingstoke Open Day 26-9-87
http://tinyurl.com/nl7f2e6


Diesel Locos present
Class 20/25/27/31/56/58/59
http://tinyurl.com/odoem6h
&
Preserved Diesels
D100/D213/D9000/55019/D7018
http://tinyurl.com/q7d269p

2 Locos from Derby RTC
97201(24061) & 97403 Ixion (46035)
http://tinyurl.com/op2sv64

Electric locos present
73 & 86
http://tinyurl.com/nn83cg3
&
preserved EM2 1502 (27000) Electra
http://tinyurl.com/qeplplk

Neil

 

how things have changed.... :-(

 

Yeah, I was there at the time & the Winchfield event around the same time give & take a year or so.
Looking at Streetview if it is the same place, it has totally changed.
The wire fence has given way to a solid wooden affair & where the tents etc were is now flats.
The lines themselves look abandoned & overgrown.

 

I was there for that - I have some badly over-exposed photos somewhere or other. Frightening to think that the first four 59s are 26+ years old now…

Simon

 

I have vague memories of a top class beer tent at the event. I think Pitfield Dark Star did most of the damage.

 

Two Google Earth views of what I think was the open day site, one from 1999 & one from 2008.
Also a current streetview picture of the road alongside I think. The flats on the right is where the tents etc were & the railway behind the wooden fence.
A question, is the 2BIL unit still around? I remember those running in & out of Reading South(ern) on the Waterloo services.

 

Isn't the 2Bill unit at Shildon.

 

Wonder how long they will last?

 

Well there are 8 more 66's just been ordered by GBRF, same basic design. So must be alright.
How long did the 56's, 58's & the like last?

 

The class 56's & class 58's lasted until the coal traffic vanished!