Class 442 Feature - The Last Day with South West Trains

1Z42 Railtour timings in more detail:
LONDON WATERLOO	11.32
CLAPHAM JUNCTION (PASS)	11.35
BARNES (PASS)	11.39		sighted 11.51
TWICKENHAM (PASS)	11.49
FELTHAM (PASS)	11.53
STAINES (PASS)	11.59		sighted through Sunnymeads 12.20
WINDSOR & ETON RIVERSIDE	12.08	12.17	sighted departing 12.42
STAINES (PASS)	12.26		sighted through Datchet 12.45
STAINES UP GOODS LOOP	12.28	12.42
FELTHAM (PASS)	12.48
TWICKENHAM (REVERSE)	12.54	13.00	sighted departing 13.17
STRAWBERRY HILL (PASS)	13.03
FULWELL (PASS)	13.05
SHEPPERTON	13.16	13.22	sighted departing 13.35
FULWELL (PASS)	13.33
SHACKLEGATE JUNCTION (PASS)	13.35
TEDDINGTON (PASS)	13.36
KINGSTON (PASS)	13.40
NEW MALDEN (PASS)	13.44		sighted 14.03
WIMBLEDON (PASS)	13.47
CLAPHAM JUNCTION (PASS)	13.51
LONDON WATERLOO	13.59

the rear end of the railtour through platform 2 at Staines

The railtour passing through Staines approximately 30 minutes down.

photograph by Fred Ellis

The first of two suburban destinations - Windsor & Eton Riverside and you can just make out Windsor Castle above the station.

photograph by James Mayl

2412 and 5871 at the buffer stops under the trainshed at Windsor

Quick turnround but everyone piles out to get their photos of the ends of the train. Contrast with the usual class 455 units plying the line! 5871 is in platform 2.

photograph by Lawe

The tour was accompanied by a distinctly soft plush pig, not a plastic pig nor genetically a pig from Wessex. We will catch up with the plush pig at Shepperton.....

photograph by Lawe

The railtour departs Windsor some 25 minutes behind schedule, reversal at Twickenham being the next major event.

photograph by Ian Buck