A 27 minute trip from Raynes Park Station to Factory Junction via Tooting on board 6Y08 hauled by a Class 66, which was going from Tolworth to Cliffe, Kent, 2017.
Excellent video, I can't help but be amazed at the number of Trains and the maze of tracks. The signallers do a fantastic job don't they, keeping everything rolling and everyone safe. Love these vids.
Is this the 11.25 departure from Tolworth? I like the Brett trains, a nice mixture of bogie and four wheel stock and liveries. Some of the ex RMC wagons had also served Tolworth back in the 80s. They were used on the Newhaven to Tolworth service. There used to be an RMC concrete plant at Tolworth, it used the old coal discharge equipment to discharge the wagons, before it was finally demolished. The trains were quite often double headed class 73s, I have a bad photo of two 73s in Gatwick livery leaving Tolworth. Class 33s were also used in pairs. 74s had been withdrawn for a while by that time.
Unlike the current method of discharging the wagons using the mainline locomotive. In the RMC days an ex BR 04 shunted the wagons. The 73s would be staged in a siding and the shunter would haul cuts of wagons over the drop pit. BR locomotives weren't allowed over the pit. There were warning signs either side to limit mainline locomotive movements. The current discharge pit is in the same location, but it's been rebuilt to accommodate mainline locomotives passing over it.
