- First Class 707 unit delivered
- Class 450 Advertising Vinyls
- Class 456 in Quantity Off Peak
- Class 458/5 Stately Progress
- New Power Car for 5913
- Refurbished Class 456 units in service
- Class 458/5 Out and About
- Class 456 at Waterloo
- Class 456 Enters Service
- Class 458/5 Interiors
- Class 458/5 Enters Service
- Class 458/5 Press Launch
- SWT Class 456 Driver Training
- Class 458/5 Early Days
- Juniper Movember
- Class 159 to Swanage
- Junipers in New Platforms at Reading
- 159/1 Livery Variation
- Diversions via Wimbledon Park
- Cigs To Leave Lymington
- Desiro Day!
- First Refurbished 455/8s
- Regenerative Brake Testing
- Desiro Derailment Waterloo
- Lymington 150
- 1498 Carries Passengers on Mainline
- Swanage Beer & Diesel Gala
- 458 Refresh at Bournemouth
- 455 to Chart Leacon
- Early Refurbished 455s Get More Attention
- Maroon Isle of Wight Units
- High Capacity Desiros
- SWT Livery in Far North
- Thunderbird is Go!
- Two Slammers at Wimbledon
- SWT Ends 170 Operations
- Lymington Cigs Turned
- Gordon Returns to Bournemouth
- Gordon Moves to Wimbledon
- First Refurbished 158 Arrives
- Gordon Outing to Swanage
- 444 Most Reliable Train
- Juniper Diversions
- First 159/1 Enters Service
- SWT Gain Another 17 350s
- Desiro on Lymington Branch
- Mixed 455 Formations
- 450101 Finally Enters Service
- 34th Refurbished 455
- SWT 159/1 Preview
- Engineering Work at Woking
- Arrivals and Departures
Gordon takes an outing to Swanage!
celebrity 4 Vep unit 3417 "Gordon Pettit" made a guest appearance carrying fare-paying passengers - something it
can no longer do on - on the during its Beer Festival and Diesel Gala between 11th and 13th May.
Guest stock, including "Gordon", arrived on the 10th May 2007 and was the first instance of the new permanent link with
being used. Over the three days 3417 ran with a variety of traction, some more native to the Southern Region than others!
All photographs by Stephen Hodgson
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3417 at Norden |
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3417 coupled to Crompton D6515 |
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3417 coupled to EDL E6043/73136 |
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Two EDLs hauling green MK1 stock approaching Corfe Castle |
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3417 coupled to D6515 again |
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3417 at Harmans Cross |
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3417 coupled to Western D1015 |
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3417 at Swanage |