File:57312 to Ramsgate EMUD - 17451057435.jpg

English: 57312 XHAC GRESTYBGE 420Z571A09 D * RAMGTEMUD N 52H A

Direct Rail Services Northern Belle-liveried class 57 number 57312 named "Solway Princess" works 0Z57 light engine from Crewe Gresty Bridge to Ramsgate EMUD to collect 375 number 306 taking it northwards to Derby as 5Z57 for refurbishement. It was also photographed later on route by 35mmLuddite at Queens Road foot crossing, Tankerton, between Whitstable and Chestfield and Swalecliffe. Lewis Smith photographed it returning northward at Gillingham and Ian Cuthbertson photographed it later on route at Northfleet.

According to Realtime Trains the route and timings were; Crewe Gresty Bridge (Drs)..........0722.........0719.............3E Crewe Basford Hall Jn................0746 1/2..0746 1/4....RT Madeley (Staffs).............................0755 1/2..0751 3/4.....3E Norton Bridge [NTB]....................0810.........0801 3/4.....8E Stafford Trent Valley Jn..............0816 1/2...0817............RT Whitehouse Junction..................0823 1/2..0825 1/2.....2L Colwich [XCO]...............................0831 1/2...0831...........RT Rugeley North Junction..............0834 1/2..0835 1/4....RT Lichfield North Junction.............0841..........0841 3/4....RT Amington Junction ......................0849.........0848 1/2....RT Atherstone [ATH]..........................0857 1/2..0855 3/4.....1E Nuneaton [NUN] 5........................0903 1/2..0901............2E Brinklow..........................................0912 1/2...0910 1/4......2E High Oaks Junction.....................0915 1/2...0913............2E Newbold Junction........................0916 1/2...0913 3/4.....2E Rugby Trent Valley Jn.................0917 1/2...0915 1/4......2E Rugby [RUG] 6...............................0920........0916 1/2......3E Hillmorton Junction.....................0922 1/2..0917 3/4.....4E Daventry North Jn........................0925 1/2..0920 1/2.....4E Daventry South Jn........................0927.........0921 1/2......5E Long Buckby [LBK].......................0933 1/2..0926 1/4.....7E N'hampton Mill Lane Jn...............0943.........0934 1/4.....8E Northampton [NMP] UML...........0944 1/2..0940...........4E Hanslope Junction.......................0953 1/2..0948 1/2.....4E Wolverton [WOL] 4.......................0957.........0952...........4E Milton Keynes Central 1..............0959 1/2..0955 3/4....3E Denbigh Hall South Jn................1003..........0958 3/4....4E Bletchley [BLY] 4..........................1004 1/2...1000............4E Leighton Buzzard 4......................1012...........1005 1/4......6E Ledburn Junction[XOD]..............1014...........1007 1/2......6E Cheddington [CED] 4..................1016 1/2....1008 1/4......8E Tring [TRI] 5....................................1022.........1014 1/2.......7E Berkhamsted [BKM] 4..................1027 1/2...1019 3/4......7E Bourne End Junction...................1031...........1023............7E Hemel Hempstead 4...................1032..........1024 1/2......7E Apsley [APS] 4...............................1033 1/2...1025 3/4.....7E Watford Junction 9......................1040..........1032............8E Harrow & Wealdstone 6.............1047..........1038 1/2......8E Wembley Central 6......................1052 1/2...1042 1/2....10E Willesden Sudbury Jn.................1054 1/2...1046 3/4.....7E Willesden West Ldn Jn................1105 1/2....1053..........12E Mitre Bridge Junction..................1109 1/2....1106.............3E North Pole Signal Vc818.............1110............1107 1/4.......2E North Pole Junction.....................1110 1/2.....1108.............2E Shepherds Bush [SPB] 1..............1114............1111................2E Kensington Olympia 3.................1115 1/2.....1112 3/4.......2E West Brompton [WBP] 3.............1118 1/2.....1116 1/4........2E Imperial Wharf [IMW] 1.................1120 1/2....1118...............2E Latchmere Junction.....................1123 1/2....1120 1/2.......2E Factory Junction...........................1128 1/2....1123 1/2.......4E Voltaire Road Junction...............1129...........1124 1/2.......4E Denmark Hill [DMK] 2..................1133...........1129.............4E Crofton Road Junction................1135...........1130 3/4......4E Peckham Rye [PMR] 4.................1135 1/2....1131 1/2........4E Nunhead [NHD] 2.........................1137...........1133..............3E Bellingham [BGM].........................1142 1/2....1138 1/2.......3E Shortlands Junction.....................1145...........1142 1/2.......2E Shortlands [SRT]...........................1145 1/2....1143 1/2........1E Bromley South [BMS]...................1146 1/2....1145...............1E Bickley Junction[XLY].................1148...........1147 1/2.......RT St Mary Cray Junction.................1149...........1148 3/4.....RT Swanley [SAY] 4............................1153...........1153 1/4......RT Fawkham Junction ......................1159...........1156 3/4......2E Sole Street [SOR] 2......................1204..........1200 1/2......3E Rochester Bridge Jn....................1214...........1213 1/4......RT Rochester [RTR] 3.........................1215 1/2....1215 3/4.....RT Chatham [CTM] 2..........................1217...........1218...............1L Gillingham [GLM] 3.......................1222..........1222 1/2.....RT Sittingbourne [SIT] 2....................1234..........1234 1/4.....RT Faversham [FAV] 3.......................1247..........1244.............2E Whitstable [WHI] 2........................1257 1/2...1252 3/4.....4E Herne Bay [HNB] 2.......................1303..........1257.............5E Margate [MAR] 1............................1320..........1314 3/4.......5E Rm Mk Ext Dept Margate End...1332..........1330.............2E

Ramsgate E.M.U.D. [XRE]...........1335..........1330.............5E