A long way from home - a photo on Flickriver

            It's early evening in mid summer 1989 and 37407 'Loch Long' heads a rake of Mark 2 coaches south past Trent, between Castle Cary and Yeovil while working the 1654 Bristol Temple Meads to Weymouth.

After no locohauled passenger trains to Weymouth in the winter 1988/9 timetable, the summer 1989 timetable generated much local interest.   

For the first time, class 37s were diagramed to work to Weymouth.   To add further spice, Cardiff Canton's small fleet of class 37/4s were bolstered by the arrival of two distinctly Scottish locomotives - 37407 and 37408 'Loch Rannoch'.   Through that summer, these Scottish immigrants regularly worked through Somerset to the Dorset resort of Weymouth.

Taken on: June 29, 1989

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