Recent content by Sultan1056

18/8 My first required loco of the year: D9526 Bishops Lydeard-Dunster 1015 Bishops Lydeard-Minehead D6575 (33057) was working the other diagram.

Me too!

1028 & 1071 were both missing headboard clips from at least one end.

You are correct, a very complicated history. Thanks for the clarification.

Correct me if I am wrong but I wasn’t aware that there was a Stirling-Ely Motorail service. Could it be a parcels or ECS working? If the date is correct, the photo was taken on a Friday; an unusual date for a diversion? Having said that if the date is correct and it isn’t a Motorail service...

Back in the late 90s I was at Kings X waiting to depart for York on the 1500 to Glasgow. Shortly after 1500 an announcement was made stating the train had been cancelled due to overhead line damage. It was then announced that the HST operated 1600 to Aberdeen would run albeit diverted via...

IIRC by the early 80’s Class 47/4s were used between Carlisle and Stranraer. These could have been from any depot but more likely to be Crewe or Eastfield’s examples.

The internal railway telephone network had access to the speaking clock by dialling the number 016.

Saturday 4th March 1989 My first experience of electric traction out of Leeds. IIRC 89001 hauled a rather scruffy set of Mk11b and c stock. The train was shunt released at Kings Cross before its return to Leeds.. 89001 Leeds-Kings Cross (1000 Leeds-Kings Cross) 89001 Kings Cross-Leeds (1320...

Friday 3rd March 1989 Today I travelled to London with a friend for a beer festival, IIRC it was at Olympia. We returned to Kings Cross in time to catch the 1736 to Peterborough. We were expecting it to be 89001. However it turned out to be 91001 being the first time a Class 91 worked a...

There is no gateline at Carlisle.

The diversions I referred to were from 9th December 1979. Unfortunately I am unable to help you with your query.

Or you could’ve been very happy to have a twin engined loco in the 550xx number range.;) Merry Christmas

I am an occasional user of the Whitehaven-Carlisle route and in my opinion there seems to be a high number of train cancellations due to train crew shortages. Today has been a particularly bad day with several cancellation. It is even more galling when a service train is cancelled, only for it...

I’m not 100% sure but I’m assuming it was a cost cutting measure by BR. Both routes via Cudworth and Pontefract suffered from mining subsidence. With the introduction of the Selby diversion there was an opportunity for slightly faster services between York and Sheffield via Doncaster.