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Seen on Twitter, 315832/835 on the way to be scrapped in Newport:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dq6K7rKWwAAsSJz?format=jpg&name=large



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Recliner wrote on 01 Nov 2018 at 16:14 ...
Seen on Twitter, 315832/835 on the way to be scrapped in Newport:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dq6K7rKWwAAsSJz?format=jpg&name=large


Lovely photo; if you crop off the rails at the bottom, it looks as if it's taking a random path across a field, like the motive power of a horse bus being led out to grass at the end of it's working life.
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Richard J. wrote:
Recliner wrote on 01 Nov 2018 at 16:14 ...
Seen on Twitter, 315832/835 on the way to be scrapped in Newport:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dq6K7rKWwAAsSJz?format=jpg&name=large


Lovely photo; if you crop off the rails at the bottom,


The bloke looking out from the door looks as if he is making sure nobody
has done that

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Richard J. wrote:
Recliner wrote on 01 Nov 2018 at 16:14 ...
Seen on Twitter, 315832/835 on the way to be scrapped in Newport:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dq6K7rKWwAAsSJz?format=jpg&name=large


Lovely photo; if you crop off the rails at the bottom, it looks as if
it's taking a random path across a field, like the motive power of a
horse bus being led out to grass at the end of it's working life.


Yes, I realise I should have used a better title:
"Putting a 315 out to grass".

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On 01/11/2018 16:14, Recliner wrote:
Seen on Twitter, 315832/835 on the way to be scrapped in Newport:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dq6K7rKWwAAsSJz?format=jpg&name=large


I wonder why only eight carriages at a time?

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