Woking to Basingstoke – Hastings DEMU cab ride – 13 May 2017

Fawley Forester, Part 1: Cab view from Woking to Basingstoke, 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 23 miles and 34 chains along the South Western Main Line.
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Video and audio footage are from an unattended unmonitored forward-facing cab-camera in motor coach 60116 Mountfield.
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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, which will be the subject of Parts 2 and 3 of this mini-series.
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0:00 – WOKING station
1:55 – Woking Junction
8:20 – Brookwood station
10:34 – Pirbright Junction
13:30 – Sturt Lane
14:34 – Farnborough
16:43 – Bramshot
17:24 – Fleet station
20:17 – Winchfield station
22:33 – Hook station
24:56 - Newnham
27:21 - Old Basing
29:16 – BASINGSTOKE station
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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 by GoPro Hero3+ camera with suction-mount and extra batteries; processing by Da Vinci Resolve (free).
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ERRATUM: The feature at 23:24 should be the A30 road.