May the Fourth be With You - Part 2 - 4th May 2024

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Our tour traverses the Down Bath Goods Loop en route from Westbury to Exeter.<br>[&copy; Paul Udey 2024]	Five locos with four coaches! Exeter Central bay P1, 59202+59101+59104 ('Village of Great Elm') + 33012<br>[&copy; Stephen Atkinson 2024]	Exeter Central bay P1 with 73136 on the rear.<br>[&copy; Stephen Atkinson 2024]	Honiton, 73136 on the rear, looking towards Salisbury, awaiting the arrival of a Down SWR train.<br>[&copy; Stephen Atkinson 2024]	73136 on the rear, looking towards Salisbury, at Gillingham (hard 'G' like fish gills).<br>[&copy; Stephen Atkinson 2024]	The front of the railtour in Gillingham (Dorset) Up P2, both lines here are bidirectionally signalled.<br>[&copy; Stephen Atkinson 2024]	At Basingstoke, 33012 waits booked departure time and for the road to be set up across the ladder from P1. South Western Railway 444029 forms a service to London, unusually from P2 (changed from P1!). The 33 departed at 18.45 (before the Class 444 at 18.54) and beat it to Waterloo by seven minutes.<br>[&copy; Stephen Atkinson 2024]
Mileage table	Route details<br>[&copy; Martyn Brailsford et al.] 2024]	Window decal