Buffer Puffer 6.1 8th of March.

Here you will find my photos of my trip to London to chase the Buffer Puffer 6.1.

Videos of the tour can be found in the videos tab.

60092 shut off at West Hampstead Thameslink whilst hauling ballast wagons for the weekend engineering work.
1996 stock at West Hampstead in the early morning light.
37405 stands at Herne Hill after 37401 brought the tour in.
37401 idles away after pulling the tour in from Charing Cross.
37405 opens up as it pulls off after a signal check outside St Margrets. I only just managed this shot after a frantic sprint from the station!
37401 idles on the rear, just as it did a few weeks earlier.
As 405 drags 401 into the distance

37405 stops at Hever to wait for a 171

Zoomed out a bit.
class 171803 crawls into Hever with a service to Ukfield.
37401 leading the tour here at Edenbridge.
As 37401 gets closer. 37401 hasn't been in this livery long. It was re-painted from the Royal livery just a month or so ago.
37405 clagging whilst idling on the rear.
37401 making a thrashy approach to Woldingham.
37401 now idles at London Bridge in the bay platforms.
37405 idling at London Bridge waiting to take the tour to London Victoria.
A wider shot of 37405 at London Bridge.
37405 now idles at London Victoria.
37401 gets ready to take the tour to London Blackfriars.
37405 takes a quick pause at Finsbury Park then to take the tour to Gordon Hill bay platform.
37401 made its last journy of the day and is now idle at London Kings Cross. Apart from the BP6.0 37/4s are rare into London Kings Cross nowdays.
37405 gears up for the ECS to Old Oak Common.
67021 idles on a footex, two other footex's came in about 5 minutes before hand. So thats 6 skips all at once!

 

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