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Good day! Can anyone confirm if Eastleigh is good for spotting? My boys wanna see freight trains and heard good things about Eastleigh or Millbrook in Southampton; can anyone confirm this? Or recommend somewhere better close by?
I've seen and heard good things about Eastleigh for trainspotting. There seem to be lots of trains going through - this link will show you all trains going through there from 1130 to 1700 today. Italics indicate trains which don't stop, blue indicates non-passenger (i.e. freight), and all others are passenger trains. A "Q" means a train might not run - click on it and see if it's running by checking the time it left its origin - bold times will show this I think.
Train information at Eastleigh between 1130 and 1700 on 22/08/2020. From Realtime Trains, an independent source of train running info for Great Britain.
www.realtimetrains.co.uk
The times on the left of the screen on mobile show timesvthe trains go through Eastleigh.
Eastleigh is a cracker for freight, fairly decent levels of passenger trains but will mainly be Desiros (444/450) and the odd 158 on the Salisbury to Romsey Loop.
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