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The A4 Keynsham Bypass alongside the GWML west of Keynsham station. https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.4196545,-2.5008617,3a,75y,344.46h,95.55t/data=!3m9!1e1!3m7!1sQjTN3I66M_XpyS2q6IYwHQ!2e0!7i16384!8i8192!9m2!1b1!2i38 The M27 alongside the Southampton-Portsmouth line near Swanwick...

As demonstrated in this YouTube clip of 5043 Earl of Mount Edgcumbe Also in the west country, I'm not sure if this stretch alongside the Bristol-Exeter line south of Weston-super-Mare counts as it's not close to a station, though it's only about a mile south of the site of the old Bleadon and...

This link includes a few shots taken in 1979 showing how much the vegetation increased in just a few years. www.cornwallrailwaysociety.org.uk/salisbury-to-southampton--eastleigh.html

I commuted from Southampton to offices near Vauxhall station for a few years in the 1990s. It was simpler, more reliable and usually quicker to walk from Waterloo rather than faff about doubling-back or changing at Clapham Junction. It's quite a pleasant walk along the embankment.

Many of the class 442s carried names in their SWT and NSE days. Mum in a Million 1997 - Doreen Scanlon always struck me as a slightly incongruous name for a train

Some of the points raised in this thread are discussed in this series on Radio 4 https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000zt93

A couple of Private Eye covers from the time. (For those who don't remember that far back, Sir Peter Parker was chairman of BR and Ray Buckton was the leader of ASLEF)

4-PEP stock running out of Waterloo

I caught the 0716 from Southampton for a number of years starting in 1983. It came up from Bournemouth in two portions which joined at Southampton Central: a stopper which arrived at Southampton at about 0710, and a fast which arrived at about 0714. Presumably the portion working precluded the...

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Weston Milton

Hinton Admiral

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Yeovil Pen Mill