1001’s motor coaches visit Three Bridges depot
This article was opened on 7 April 2018
On Monday 10 August 2015, 1001’s motor coaches 60116 Mountfield & 60118 Tunbridge Wells were coupled back-to-back and worked to Three Bridges for a week of shunting Class 700 trains within the new Thameslink depot there, in which the conductor-rail had not yet been engergised. Our motor coaches returned to St. Leonards on Friday 14 August.
The actual timings of our motor-coaches’ outward and return journeys have been saved.
![[PHOTO: Train in depot: 44kB]](2015-08-11_ThreeBridges-depot1-Stuart-White.jpg "60118 with a Class 700.
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Above & below: Motor coach 60118 Tunbridge Wells, coupled to a Class 700 unit with the Dellner coupling-adaptor that we have for our train, is seen inside the depot buildings. Photos by Stuart White.
![[PHOTO: Train in depot: 40kB]](2015-08-11_ThreeBridges-depot2-Stuart-White.jpg "60118 with a Class 700.
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![[PHOTO: Train in depot yard: 52kB]](2015-08-11_ThreeBridges-depot3-Stuart-White.jpg "60118 with a Class 700 in Three Bridges depot yard.
This is a link to a larger version.")
Above & below: Our motor coaches were used within the depot as motive power for gauging and acceptance runs for the Class 700 units then being introduced onto the Thameslink system; both photos by Stuart White. The lower image shows our motor coaches accelerating within the depot as they are repositioned for another move.
![[PHOTO: Trains in depot yard: 52kB]](2015-08-11_ThreeBridges-depot4-Stuart-White.jpg "60118 accelerating within Three Bridges depot yard, beyond a Class
700 unit.
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![[PHOTO: Train departing depot: 48kB]](2015-08-14_ThreeBridges-departure1-John-Atkinson.jpg "Motor coach 60118 Tunbridge Wells leading 1001’s motor coaches out
of Three Bridges depot.
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Above & below: At 16:23hrs on Friday 14 August 2015, John Atkinson was on hand at Three Bridges station to capture these views of our pair of motor coaches departing the eponymous depot as they embarked on their return journey to St. Leonards Depot via Redhill, Tonbridge and Hastings.
![[PHOTO: Train accelerating through platform: 48kB]](2015-08-14_ThreeBridges-departure2-John-Atkinson.jpg "Motor coach 60118 Tunbridge Wells leading 1001’s motor coaches
through Three Bridges station.
This is a link to a larger version.")