Timings (Booked Only)
7th May 1977
B.R.
(Spalding Flower Festival Special)
"The Pleasure Seeker - Bargain Trips by Special Trains" series.
| Locos Used | at least 31168 |
| Stock Used | 34295+16210+4907+4911+1765+4922+4913+5024+16205+35012 |
Route : 1Z41 throughout
| Loco(s) | Route |
| ????? | Ramsgate - Kensington Olympia |
| ?31168? | Kensington Olympia - Spalding |
| 31168 | Spalding - Cambridge - ?Kensington Olympia? |
| ????? | Kensington Olympia- Ramsgate |
Notes :
(1) Route confirmation required.
Source : Alan Chilestone (viewed return working at
Cambridge)
Timings (Booked Only)
| Location | Booked (out) | Booked (rtn) |
| Ramsgate | ? | ? |
| Cambridge | ? | 19.37a ~ ??.??d |
| Spalding | ? | ? |
The following booked timings have been supplied by Terry Dorrity who was a passenger on a Ramsgate to Spalding special on this day but did not note the traction - was it this one or this other one for which details are already supplied?
| Location | Booked (out) | Booked (rtn) |
| Ramsgate | 07.20d | 00.50a |
| Broadstairs | 07.26d | 00.44a |
| Margate | 07.32d | 00.38a |
| Herne Bay | 07.47d | 00.25a |
| Whitstable | 07.54d | 00.18a |
| Faversham | 08.04d | 00.08a |
| Sittingbourne | 08.14d | 23.58a |
| Gillingham | 08.29d | 23.47a |
| Chatham | 08.35d | 23.42a |
| Bromley South | 09.08d | 23.09a |
| Spalding | 12.45a | 18.40d |
Fare was £4 adult (£2 child) and the train Terry Dorrity was on was reported as fully booked, hence the other train may have been a "relief" to it.
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