Poole To London Waterloo By Standard 5 - 9th July 2003

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The trip made local history as this steam engine passed another on the main line in 36 Years (to the day) on Southern metals. The other tour was headed by Flying Scotsman with the Orient Express Pullman Set on her way to Salisbury & Bath. The pass can be seen at.time point 13:19
The story of the event was covered by BBC South Today, and their report can be seen at the end of this video.

[@fenderac3049]

Interesting, I and my wife were on this tour. We joined the train at Bournemouth, no identification on the coach window telling you which was our coach, stewards seemed to be non existence, the dining cars weren't designed for dining in, as they didn't have a vestibule at each end of the coach we were sitting in, so with all the anoraks leaning out the windows at the end of the coach it drew all the soot in, but it wouldn't be a steam tour without a bit of soot with your food! Not one of Steam Dreams finest hours. That apart, I was impressed with the class 5's performance, shame it had to go around the houses to and from Waterloo! That was the first time I had been behind a class 5 either to or from Waterloo, all my prior trips in the 60's were behind Bulleid's. Thanks for posting.

[@ronfisher2-railwaytravelvideos]

Wouldn't it be nice to see 73096 back on the main line again. It would also be nice to see Eurostars at Waterloo as well!

[@uries15]

22:16. Unfortunately not light to Nine Elms.