Observation Evening at Reading

Solent Branch Observation Evening at Reading Station was attended by 3 members from 14:50 until 19:05 with a Thames Valley, soon to be Solent member, from 16:30. We seated ourselves at the London end of Platform 9 so did not see much of what there was using the country end bay platforms. The out of the ordinary sighting was 59102 hauling a stone train with 59203 in the middle of the consist.

The sightings were recorded as shown, with quite a few repeated sightings of units doing shorter trips.

59002/5/
59102/
59203/4/6/
66590/730/65/
165103/4/7/8/9/12/3/3/7/9/
221126/9/
345002/7/9/9/11/28/35/40/0/51/2/7/61/2/
387142/2/2/3/3/4/4/5/6/8/8/8/9/50/2/2/3/3/4/4/5/5/5/6/6/7/7/7/60/0/0/2/2/3/3/4/4/4/6/6/7/7/8/8/70/0/1/1/2/3/3/
450012/4/8/8/9/26/35/46/53/72/85/8/8/8/92/2/114/4/8/
800001/2/2/3/4/5/5/5/5/6/12/5/5/6/6/8/8/9/20/0/2/3/3/4/4/5/7/7/8/8/9/9/9/30/0/1/4/5/
800301/4/4/5/8/8/9/11/3/3/6/7/7/8/8/9/20/
802005/7/8/9/9/11/1/7/7/8/8/21/2/2/
802101/1/3/3/4/4/5/5/7/9/12/2/3/3/

By classes there were the following counts of different numbers
590 2
591 1
592 3
165 9
221 2
345 12
387 25
450 14
800/0 23
800/3 12
802/0 9
802/1 8

An enjoyable afternoon/evening was had by all.