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Visit to Eastleigh Works Arlington Fleet Services Saturday 3rd September 2022

A rare opportunity to visit Eastleigh Works - Arlington Fleet Services.


A Visit for 15 members has been secured - these are the only places remaining for 2022.


Travel From London:

Booking:

To book, please click: Eastleigh Booking  to email Malcolm Pym

Or call Malcolm on: 07771 830 403

With a limited number of places available, early booking is recommend.

Educational Free Pass

This is an educational visit, so those members with protected (safeguarded) travel facilities can apply for an educational free pass.  Please see: Free Pass for further information.

The free pass ticket should be from your home station to Eastleigh

Rail Tickets for those without an Educational Free Pass or ‘Priv’ Facilities

An off-peak return, valid on the above trains is £44.10 or £28.15 with a valid railcard.

It is possible to slightly reduce the ticket price by using split tickets:

London Waterloo to Farnborough Main - £19.90 Off-Peak Return + Farnborugh Main to Eastleigh for £22.20 Off Peak Return making a total of £42.10 or £27.75 with a railcard.

There are no advance tickets available, so it is the same price if brought in advance or purchased on the day.

Book at South Western Railways or any National Rail website.  

DO NOT use thetrainline or other similar third party sites as you will pay more as these sites charge fees which National Rail Train Operator websites do not charge.

London Waterloo

dep

08.09 (Plat 15)

1T17

SWR Service to Portsmouth Harbour

Eastleigh

arr

09.27 (Plat 2)



From Eastleigh station we will walk to Campbell Road to meet our guide for the day at 09.45.


After a briefing, the tour will commence at 10.00hrs


Cost

The cost of this visit is £10 each, payable on the day.



Personal Protective Equipment

An orange high-visibility jacket / coat and safety shoes must be warn for this visit.  These need to be supplied by those undertaking this visit - they will not be supplied by our hosts.


Note that Screwfix and other similar retailers sell orange hi-vis jackets (currently £3.99 at Screwfix) and safety shoes (from £19.99 at Screwfix) if you do not have these already.



Return Travel to London

It is not possible to predict when this visit will conclude and there will be an opportunity to have lunch after the visit.  Return trains from Eastleigh to London Waterloo are at:  12.47, 13.47, 14.48 and 15.47 with a typical journey time of around 1 hour and 25 minutes.