08/09/14 - Atlantic Coast Express - Exeter Central

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The Atlantic Coast Express headed by BB 34067 Tangmere
and rear assisted by WC 34046 Braunton triumphantly arrives at Exeter Central with the 12 coach train at the end of the curving 1-37 climb up from Exeter St David’s on Monday 8th September 2014.

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7 сен 2014

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@MrKnowwun 10 лет назад

well done, couldn't get down there to film it - thanks for that, can't complain the fireman didn't have a good chest of steam, the safety cracked as soon as the regulator came off!

@jrdaddykins 10 лет назад

Beautifully filmed. I like the way you included shots of the other enthusiasts: it added to the excitement and atmosphere.

@PeteDevrell 10 лет назад

Thank you. Comments appreciated.

@lighthousefilms 10 лет назад

Great video, like the crowd of photographers. I was on the 3 coach SWT from Waterloo that had just left your platform. I was so tied up with the Dart, Torbay and Cathedrals Express I had forgotten that ACE was running that weekend. What was even more sad was that I had just travelled down from Brookwood station, where I now see it was going to stop for water later that evening!!!!! Dave

@ecokestove 5 лет назад

Very nice to see the ACE. I used to travel on it in the late '50s up to '62, three times a year. Between Bideford and Waterloo. I don't remember it struggling up the Exeter incline like that, but I guess it wasn't as heavily loaded. If I remember correctly, it was 11:00 from Waterloo, platform 11(?). I also remember a chap used to get on at Waterloo with a large dog that had a collection box strapped to its back. This was to collect money for the Southern Railway Orphanage. For quite some time after this dog, stuffed, was on display in a cabinet at Waterloo. Salisbury - tapping the wheels. Also, signs in fields saying 'You will soon be entering the Strong country.' Strongs being a brewer in Romsey.

@PeteDevrell 5 лет назад

Thanks Steve for sharing your memories.

@phph1731 3 года назад

Romsey born and bred (strong in the arm and thick in the head) with one of those big hoardings on my walk to school, I appreciate the reminiscence. Ours read, ‘You are in the Strong country’ and when the wind blew up from the town we certainly knew it. Always thanked heaven that Romsey was a brewery town and not a tannery town. I remember a stuffed dog too for the Orphanage, though my memory would be of Southampton in the 60s. My grandfather was a Dorset railwayman sent down to the North Cornwall line in the 20s where he met a young Cornishwoman and the rest, as they say, is history. I must have travelled on the ACE to see family, but don’t recall the journey, sadly.