"The East West DEMU" charter train, promoted by Hastings Diesels Ltd. and operated by GBRf, approaches the Sandhill Road overbridge west of Verney Junction. This is the first part of the return leg, 1Z50 14.11 Milton Keynes Central - Bicester Village, passengers having about an hour and a half in Bicester before the train continued on as 1Z51 16.30 to Hastings.
The train formation is:
• DMBS S60119.
• TSL S60529
• ex-4CEP TSL 70262
• ex-4BIG TSRB 69337
• TSL S60528
• DMBS S60118
Tunbridge Wells
• DMBS S60116
Mountfield
• TSL S60501
• DMBS S60000
Hastings
The bridge in the background has replaced the foot crossing immediately west of the old station, the location junction of the branch to Buckingham. I took a burst of shots when the train was in this position in order to show the curvature of the line and the new bridge, but also took a burst with the train much closer (with the front beyond the tree on the left) but not showing the line disappearing into the distance. In addition to the 16:9 ratio crop, this has also been cropped a little on the left; my next prime lens was just too long!
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