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Having posted my moves from the 23rd of August in my "Contemporary trip reports" thread, then seeing Keith's reply, I thought I'd open a new thread for folk to post their reminiscences from, well, this day in history. I'll get the ball rolling with some choice moves from the 24th of August...

On November the 21st 1981 I did the "Deltic Scotsman" railtour - not to be confused with the "Deltic Scotsman Farewell" a few weeks later. This had 55002 running York - Leeds - Carlisle - Newcastle - Inverkeithing - Edinburgh and 55013 Edinburgh - Leeds - Bradford Exchange - Leeds - York. My...

OK, it might be a bit late in the day, with only a handful left, but I thought I would group my remaining old all-liner moves in one thread, so this is it :) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a report of the all...

Hello. I thought that I would create a thread into which I will post all my modern era trip reports, just to avoid creating multiple ones. First up is my wibblings from my combined Central Scotland/Daytripper move of last week. I'm afraid it's proved to be quite lengthy, so I hope someone can...

So. It was the 27th of June 2002 and I was off on another solo soiree around the network. I began in the time honoured fashion of leaving my car in the car park at Wakefield Westgate and heading off to Birmingham - this time on 47805. 47805 on a previous all-liner: 47805_1997.06.07_Weymouth...

It’s April, so it must be time for an all-liner :) This one was another solo effort and the year was 2002. I began by doing what was by now my usual move of driving to Wakefield and leaving my car in the long stay car park. 91029 was my first, and only, loco of the day. I took this to...

OK, here's this week's instalment. Nothing too spectacular occurred and the report is a bit shorter than usual, but hopefully it'll hit the spot for some people. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Next up was a rover...

Following a fairly miserable couple of weeks in which not one, but two of my relatives died (one a cousin who died suddenly at the age of 42) my wife felt that, for the sake of my mental health, I should have a couple of days away on the trains. Never one to turn down such an offer I...

Well, here we go with my next move. Myself and 45135 made up the party and, as usual, he has provided me with the HST gen for the trip (apart from the last one in to Paddington, I missed that when I was making my frequent gen requests!). Our rover took in Tuesday the 11th of September and it...

OK, here we go again. I was on my own for this one, but my recording of units had improved considerably. HSTs were still unrecorded, though. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- My next all-liner came in June 2001 and...

OK, so here's my next adventure. I was accompanied by 45135 and I am, once again, indebted to him for the considerable amount of unit gen. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The next rover that I did was another two man...

A new millennium but the same old pastime :) This was a three man move and once again I'm indebted to 45135 for additional gen. Things were starting to decline by this time and, although it was very enjoyable, there wasn't anything really spectacular. So it seems that when I originally wrote...

Hello all, I only got myself a Flickr account in order to add a few shots to my all-liner reports, but now it's taken on a life of its own :) Anyway, I have today added a few shots of 37s taken over the years and they can be found at: https://www.flickr.com/photos/128669677@N02/ As...

Here we go with my next move. I did it with a mate, not 45135 this time although he has his own memories of events that week. Once again a disposable camera gave me a few not brilliant, but not too bad, shots...

A few shots from yesterday's excellent Type 1-3 (with added type 4) theme day at the East Lancs can be found here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/128669677@N02/

OK, so here we go again. This time I went with 2 mates, 45135 and another bloke who spent some time with us and some time off on his own. As usual, I'm grateful to 45135 for the HST and unit numbers. Techniquest, I hear what you're saying about solo moves. I can very much enjoy a move on...

Happy New Year everyone. What better way to start a new one than by reminiscing about years past? There's probably quite a few ways, actually, but never mind. Sadly 45135 didn't do this one with me, so the unknown HSTs and units will have to remain unknown. As was usual at the time...

So, Mrs 55013 has been doing a course at work and has an essay to write. As a result, she has been regularly throwing me out of the house for the last few weeks and today was one such day. I use a Metrocard (sorry, MCard, I’ve got to keep up to date with these things :)), so not only can I...

OK, so here's my next all-liner. Once again, it was enjoyed with my mate, fellow poster 45135, and it is to him the thanks go for providing me with the HST and unit gen. Where something is unknown it's generally because we had parted company at that point. There is an unknown HST power car...

OK, here another one. Before I go any further, I should say that my record keeping was still pathetic and I didn't record most of the none-loco runs we did. I am deeply indebted to my good friend 45135, who over the last few days has dug out his records of the move and provided me with all the...