What goes through Wimbledon Park

Double-headers too! I have a picture in a book here of a southbound empty stock working passing East Putney with an M7 piloting an original West Country and a railtour passed this way toward the end of Southern Steam with 73029 and 'Blackmoor Vale' on the front.

I can also remember travelling over the route in the late 70s/early 80s on 'Merrymaker' excusions (remember them?) before the up line bridge was taken out over the Windsor lines. Motive power was always a 33. From memory the bridge was condemned not long before I joined the railways in the mid-80s and it was some years before the necessary connections were put in to allow reversible working along the down line between Point Pleasant and East Putney. The line would be a great modelling project so I insist on us being updated in the model pages....

I went on a Deltic-hauled railtour along the line from Wimbledon - East Putney in 1981, as they were being phased out. The tour was from Finsbury Park to Exeter, out via the GW main line, back via the South Western to Wimbledon, then through East Putney to Clapham Junction and on the WLL through Olympia.

Amazing. A Deltic passing through Wimbledon Park.

It looks like there's another tour soon and another chance to see interesting things running through W P. Saturday April 2nd, pick up Clapham Junction.

Here are the details: www.spitfirerailtours.co.uk/Future%20tours2.htm