Chiltern Line
Chiltern Line used locomotives and stock for it’s Paddington-Banbury and Oxford route. Power was usually Class 50’s, but as they became increasingly more unreliable, Class 47’s were also used. The locomotive usually hauled a rake of MK2 stock, but MK1’s were not uncommon. The loco-hauled routes were branded ‘Network Express’ Two class 47 locomotives, no. 47 587 and 47 547 were named Ruskin College of Oxford and University of Oxford respectively on 3 October 1990 to celebrate the opening of the new Oxford station. But the end was near for loco hauled services on the Chiltern Line on 28th March 1991 when a 50m order was placed for class 166 ‘Networker Turbo’ units to oust loco-haulage from the Paddington-Oxford and Banbury route. The first ‘turbo’ entered service on the 10th August 1991, spelling the end for the locomotives. Outline of the modernisation of this route can be found here

Waterloo-Exeter
This route is not covered in great detail here, because full information about the modernistaion of this route can be found here.
Famed for it’s extensive use of class 50’s, The Waterloo-Exeter route was the furthest west NSE stretched (apart from the odd run to Paignton). Much of the line was, and still is, single track. As the class 50’s became increasingly more unreliable, class 47’s and 33’s were drafted in, until a more suitable form of motive power, which eventually came in the form of the class 159’s, could be found.

That conlcudes our tour of Network SouthEast Locomotive hauled operations!

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