Single car units.

[1018509]

Whilst sitting in my lounge yesterday enjoying my retirement and looking across the way at the London Waterloo main line south of Brockenhurst, a single car unit of something (definitely not a locomotive) passed heading, I imagine, to Bournemouth TMD. Does SWT have any single car units and if so what was this one likely to be?

 

[lewisf]

Is this still knocking around?

http://www.the-siding.co.uk/class121/pages/960012.htm

 

[starrymarkb]

No it isn't - SWT donated it to a preserved line.

Could be a track machine of some kind?

 

[asylumxl]

I don't know anything about the area, but I'd say either track machinery or possibly a FGW 153 for some reason?

 

[Turbostar]

Are 153's allowed down that neck of the woods, due to clearance issues?

 

[hairyhandedfool]

....Does SWT have any single car units and if so what was this one likely to be?

A description might be helpful. I don't think SWT has any 'single car units'.

 

[Oracle]

Was it a track machine going to Brockenhurst p/way sidings?

 

[Turbostar]

A description might be helpful. I don't think SWT has any 'single car units'.

See post #3, they used to have that multicoloured 121 based at Salisbury.

 

[fgwrich]

See post #3, they used to have that multicoloured 121 based at Salisbury.

Which is now preserved down at the Swanage Railway - Now in BR Green with Speed Wiskers, and is rather indetifiable by it's ex sprinter centre windscreen wiper...

 

[Oracle]

I had the lucky pleasure of seeing it en route from Salisbury to the Swanage, travelling south on the Test Valley line near Whaddon [north of Dean] whilst driving on the adjacent A36.