Picture of the Day
'The 'Portsmouth Flyer' railtour, operated by 'The Railway Touring Company', ran from London Victoria to Portsmouth Harbour on 13 June 2026. Bulleid 'Merchant Navy' pacific 35028 Clan LIne headed the train, seen here at speed passing Milford, Surrey. The train had 47802 at the rear, partly required to take the train down to Portsmouth Harbour after reversal at Fareham and partly to power the air-conditioning, and both locos are seen here powering the train. It was around 10 minutes late at this point and had a water stop at Haslemere that was to be followed by a ceremony to dedicate the decommisioned signalbox there as a museum, thus making the regaining of lost time through the diesel assistance particularly important. The whistle can be seen operating as it greeted the footbridge full of watchers with a particularly long blast!'
Ian Docwra
Ian Docwra
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Feedback from visitors is important to us, so if you have any comments or suggestions please drop us an e-mail. Much further expansion to this site is in the pipeline, much of which follows reader comment. We have no intention whatsoever to introduce any form of charges, log in or password system, allowing users easy site access at all times. All our main services are free.
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The Railway Centre.Com are always looking for quality digital images for use as Picture of the Day. If you have any suitable item, preferably with a news content, please submit as an e-mail attachment in a jpg format to [email protected] Please do not reduce your image to less than 1600 pixals in width and please do not add text or graphics to the image. Remember to include as much information about the picture as possible, including the loco/unit number, train, date and location, plus your name. We are also willing to include personal website details at the end of the picture credit.
The Railway Centre.Com are always looking for quality digital images for use as Picture of the Day. If you have any suitable item, preferably with a news content, please submit as an e-mail attachment in a jpg format to [email protected] Please do not reduce your image to less than 1600 pixals in width and please do not add text or graphics to the image. Remember to include as much information about the picture as possible, including the loco/unit number, train, date and location, plus your name. We are also willing to include personal website details at the end of the picture credit.
