On bank holiday monday I saw a full length HST trundle through Barnes station
going north. What would it have been doing on Southern region?

B2003

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On bank holiday monday I saw a full length HST trundle through Barnes
station
going north. What would it have been doing on Southern region?

Running to Exeter in replacement for Paddington services.

On 29 Dec, 10:18, wrote:
On bank holiday monday I saw a full length HST trundle through Barnes station
going north. What would it have been doing on Southern region?

B2003

Reading closed for bridge replacement, so FGW trains diverted. See
various other threads.

David Biddulph

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On bank holiday monday I saw a full length HST trundle through Barnes station
going north. What would it have been doing on Southern region?

Presumably a diversion into Waterloo as East of Reading on the GWML has
been closed because of brdige works.
Alan.
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On Dec 29, 10:31*am, (A.Lee) wrote:
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On bank holiday monday I saw a full length HST trundle through Barnes station
going north. What would it have been doing on Southern region?

Presumably a diversion into Waterloo as East of Reading on the GWML has
been closed because of brdige works.
Alan.
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Sounds like a consensus - but if it was actually going north it was
forging a whole new route. Westish seems more likely.
Tim

Barnes sounds a bit odd though - how would it have got to/from the
Exeter line from there?

On Wed, 29 Dec 2010 02:38:00 -0800 (PST)
TimB wrote:
On Dec 29, 10:31=A0am, (A.Lee) wrote:
wrote:
On bank holiday monday I saw a full length HST trundle through Barnes s=
tation
going north. What would it have been doing on Southern region?

Presumably a diversion into Waterloo as East of Reading on the GWML has
been closed because of brdige works.
Alan.
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Sounds like a consensus - but if it was actually going north it was
forging a whole new route. Westish seems more likely.
Tim

Strictly speaking Barnes bridge is going north west , but I can't
figure out what sort of convoluted route would take it through the leafy
lines around Barnes to go north of the river presumably at some point to head
south of the river again. Gauging issues perhaps with the Mk3's?

B2003

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On bank holiday monday I saw a full length HST trundle through Barnes
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going north. What would it have been doing on Southern region?

B2003


Reading is closed. What you saw was a divert from the west country.
Normal route to Westbury then reverse and down to Salisbury, Basingstoke,
Addlestone, Brentford to get in to the "correct" side of Waterloo. Going
back they use Richmond instead of Barnes. From Bristol/Swansea they route
to Oxford, Banbury (reverse) then down through High Wycombe to Paddington

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Barnes sounds a bit odd though - how would it have got to/from the
Exeter line from there?

Weybridge?

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Colin Rosenstiel

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On bank holiday monday I saw a full length HST trundle through Barnes
station going north. What would it have been doing on Southern region?

Reading is closed. What you saw was a divert from the west
country. Normal route to Westbury then reverse and down to
Salisbury, Basingstoke, Addlestone, Brentford to get in to the
"correct" side of Waterloo. Going back they use Richmond instead
of Barnes. From Bristol/Swansea they route to Oxford, Banbury
(reverse) then down through High Wycombe to Paddington

Richmond as well as Barnes, surely?

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Colin Rosenstiel