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.
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.
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.
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.