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1317 leads 1315 out of Lingfield on the 12:31 service from East Grinstead on Saturday 02.11.1968. There is a red flag on the engineers siding owing to the temporary removal of a length of rail. Eric Kemp retains all rights to this image.
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1317 in the Down bay platform at Oxted, awaiting departure with the 14:54 to Uckfield on Saturday 18.01.1969. At the time the goods shed on the left still survived, and a Wickham Trolley can be seen in the adjacent engineer's siding. Eric Kemp retains all rights to this image.
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1317, in green livery, leads 1305 (blue) through Lingfield on the 20:05 empty coaching stock working from East Grinstead on Thursday 17.07.1969. Part of the footbridge in the background was later used at Sheffield Park on the Bluebell Railway. Eric Kemp retains all rights to this image.
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1317 passes the Distant signal for Grove Junction as it leaves the single bore Grove Tunnel with an Uckfield to Tonbridge train on Sunday 14.03.1976. The train had left Tunbridge Wells West at 15:08. Eric Kemp retains all rights to this image.
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Grove Junction pictured on the day of closure of the line through Grove Tunnel on Saturday 06.07.1985. 1317 leads 1311 "wrong line" to Tunbridge Wells Central, where it would terminate due to engineering works. The train is the 09:59 from Eridge. Eric Kemp retains all rights to this image.
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1317 passes the Distant signal for Grove Junction as it leaves the single bore Grove Tunnel with an Uckfield to Tonbridge train on Sunday 14.03.1976. The train had left Tunbridge Wells West at 15:08. (Colour image rendered in black and white). Eric Kemp retains all rights to this image.
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