July 2018

66710, Princes Risborough, 6A02, 19th July 2018

The MoD workings from and to Bicester were also affected by the Oxford blockade and diverted to run via the Chiltern line, though this may have been the only time the train actually ran. Scheduled to pass through Princes Risborough at 05:56 it was running some twenty-six minutes early and was held at Princes Risborough to allow 5T10, the 05:13 ECS from Aylesbury to Oxford Parkway, which reverses at Princes Risborough (this train fills the entire platform length at Princes Risborough, so no option to photograph the MoD train from the platform) to go ahead of it. GBRf 66710 "Phil Packer" is at the head of 6A02, the 19:29 from Carlisle NY to Bicester MoD as it slows for the signal stop on the approach to Princes Risborough. 05:28¼, Thursday 19th July 2018. Digital Image No. IGMP39045.

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