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Loco(s)	Route
D5009	(2) London Broad Street - Dalston Jn - Camden Road - Gospel Oak - Willesden Junction HL
70020	Willesden Junction HL - Mitre Bridge Jn - Kensington (Olympia) - Latchmere Jn - Clapham Junction - Point Pleasant Jn - Wimbledon - Hampton Court Jn - Effingham Junction - Guildford - Haslemere - Havant - Cosham - Fareham
34079 (3)	Fareham - Netley - St. Denys - Northam Jn - Southampton Eastern Docks
30069 + 30073 (4)	Southampton Eastern Docks - Northam Jn - Eastleigh
30069 + 30073	Eastleigh - Eastleigh Works Yard
70020	Eastleigh Works Yard - Eastleigh - Winchester City - Basingstoke - Woking - Surbiton - Wimbledon - Earlsfield - Clapham Junction - London Waterloo

Notes :
(1) For Eastleigh Works & shed visits, tour of Southampton Docks and visit to Ocean Terminal.
(2) The tour was advertised as having a 'Britannia' from Broad Street (70004 'William Shakespeare' to be precise). Participants were told that the reason for having the type 2 diesel instead was that the engine had come off Willesden shed facing the wrong way and the tour left 15mins late as a result. The loco change at Willesden lost a further 10mins. Booked 70004 was however failed due to an injector problem and 70020 was substituted at the last minute.
(3) This leg was booked to have been a West Country class. Matthew Sell comments: I've come across a piece of information in a book regarding the 06/12/1964 Home Counties Railway Society 'Eastleigh & Southampton Special', although it's not explicit. The book is Barry Scrapyard The Preservation Miracle, by Alan Warren. Page 227, dedicated to 34072 '257 Squadron' states that despite the locomotive being withdrawn months prior, it was resteamed in December to work an excursion between Fareham and Southampton Docks. Webmaster comment: is anyone aware if the assertion in the book about 34072 being steamed after withdrawal actually having happened and, if so, was it in fact for this tour (i.e. it was 34072 not 34079 on this leg), or was it for another tour (although there is no candidate on Six bells Junction that fits the description other than this one)?
(4) It is understood the locos booked should have been 30064 & 30073 (in green).
(5) Formed in 1955 and originally known as the 'Middlesex Loco Spotters Club', their name was changed in the late 1950's to the 'Home Counties Railway Club' then in January 1963 it changed again, to the 'Home Counties Railway Society'.

Sources : John Clifford (on the train throughout), Ron Walker & David Whittaker

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Miles	Location	Booked	Actual
0	Broad Street	09.05d	09.20
2	Dalston Jn	09/12	09/26½
3½	Caledonian Road	09/18	09/31½
5	Kentish Town West	09/22	09/36
6	Hampstead Heath	09/26	09/42½
7½	Brondesbury	09/31	09/47
10½	Willesden Junction HL	09/39	09.54a ~ 10.04d
13	Kensington Olympia	09c48 ~ 09c50	10.12½ ~ 10.15
?	Clapham Junction 'A' Box	10.00 ~ 10.04	10.23 ~ 10.24½
18¼	Clapham Junction	10c06 ~ 10c08	10.26½ ~ 10.29
20	East Putney	10/15	10/37
22¾	Wimbledon	10/24	10/45½
27½	Surbiton	10/30	?
?	Hampton Court Jn	10/32	10/54½
40	Effingham Junction	10/44	11/06½
45¾	Guildford	10w57a ~ 11w01d	11.23½ ~ 11.29½
51¾	Milford	11/11	?
58½	Haslemere	11/21	11/51
67	Liss	11/30	?
70½	Petersfield	11/35	12/02
81	Havant	11/49	12/13
84	Cosham	11/55	12/20
90	Fareham	12L04a ~ 12L12d	12.29 ~ 12.38½
	Swanwick	12/18	?
	Netley	12/27	?
102½	St Denys	12/25	?
?	Northam Jn	12/37	13/04½
?	Southampton Dock Gates	12/42	?
104½	Southampton Old Docks	12L47a ~ 14L25d	13.12 ~ 14.23
?	Southampton Dock Gates	14/32	?
?	Northam Jn	14/37	14/30½
106½	St Denys	14/39	?
110	Eastleigh	14L45a ~ 14L55d	14.47 ~ ??.??
110¾	Eastleigh Works Yard	15L00a ~ 16L59d	15.?? ~ 16.51
111¼	Eastleigh	17/02	16/58½
118¼	Winchester City	17/12	17/10
126¾	Micheldever	17/21	?
135½	Basingtsoke	17/30	17/35½
156¾	Fleet	17/47	?
169	Woking	17/53	17/59½
180¼	Surbiton	18/03	18/08½
189¼	Clapham Junction	18/13	18/19½
193¼	Waterloo	18.20a	18.28