Fawley Forester, Part 2: Cab view from Southampton Central to Fawley Esso, filmed from our preserved Hastings DEMU on Saturday 13 May 2017, during the outward leg of the Fawley Forester railtour/charter. In this video we cover 12 miles and 23 chains, first along the South Western Main Line and then down the Fawley branch. We went as far as it is possible to go, to the gate beyond which lies the disused railfreight terminal at Fawley Esso oil refinery.
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Video footage is from an unattended unmonitored forward-facing cab-camera in motor coach 60116 Mountfield. Most of the audio track comes from a simultaneous recording made in the rear cab, motor coach 60118 Tunbridge Wells, and accurately synchronised with the video; this is because the presence of two members of traincrew in the leading cab meant that much of its audio footage would not be suitable for publication.
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The outing began at Hastings and ran via Tonbridge and Redhill to Woking, and then via Winchester to Southampton and on to the Fawley branch. Three return trips were made between Southampton and Fawley; this is the outward leg of the first such trip. Part 1 of this mini-series covered the outward leg between Woking and Basingstoke, and Part 3 will feature the return from Fawley Esso to Southampton Central.
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0:00 – SOUTHAMPTON CENTRAL station
3:36 – Millbrook station
7:39 – Redbridge station
8:45 – TOTTON station
10:49 – Divergence from main line
13:09 – Fawley branch begins in earnest
15:28 – Jacobs Gutter Lane Level Crossing
18:11 – Trotts Lane Level Crossing
20:08 – Tavells Lane Level Crossing
20:49 – Marchwood disused station
22:55 – Junction with Marchood Military Port branch
23:40 – Pumpfield Farm Level Crossing
25:05 – Veals Lane Level Crossing
30:41 – West Street Level Crossing
32:13 – School Road (Hythe) Level Crossing
33:16 – Hythe disused station
35:00 – Frost Lane Level Crossing
37:49 – Hardley Halt disused station
40:21 – FAWLEY ESSO
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Video, soundtrack and captions © Copyright 2017–2018 Hastings Diesels Limited.
https://www.hastingsdiesels.co.uk/
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Equipment: video (and its soundtrack, where present) by GoPro Hero3+ camera with suction-mount and extra batteries; rear-cab audio by Sony ECM-MS907 stereo electret microphone and Sony MiniDisc MZ-R30 recorder; still photo by Canon PowerShot S2 IS ‘bridge’ camera; video production by Da Vinci Resolve (free).
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This outing began as a charter by Three Rivers Community Rail Partnership, which seeks to promote and improve public transport in the Southampton area: http://www.threeriversrail.com/
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ERRATUM: At 14:46 the caption should refer to the A35, not A36.