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10th September 1983 We were on a Boots Tokens day out so where shall we go? Why Kilmarnock of course! Direct route there, rather indirect coming back. They were sort of one day all line rovers except we flexed it a little...... 87035 Euston - Carlisle 27054 Carlisle - Kilmarnock 26038 Kilmarnock...

Some mighty fine machines there - some of those strike me as the early refurbished ones such as 6, 13 & 47 which all ran in BR blue in refurbished mode. 11 & 14 were amongst some of the last to be dealt with under the refurb programme. Oh, and you mention those industrial sized video cameras -...

9th September 1989 This was a trip to bag some track and a few things by the wayside in the process 43067+91105 Kings Cross - Doncaster Here we caught up with the previous service and managed to switch across at Doncaster 43080+91109 Doncaster to Wakefield Where it terminated so back on to...

Still catching up 6th September 1978 was a swift after work move Winning pair of 20178+20190 Nottingham to Long Eaton for the inevitable Class 120 DMU back to Nottingham. Ditto for 7th September 1978 Winners of 20070+20199 Nottingham to Long Eaton. Guess what? A class 120 back to Nottingham! 8th...

And now on to 5th September 1981 This should have been a simple move from Salisbury to Bristol following a week walking the South Coast Path. The Railway Gods had other ideas 33056 Salisbury - Bath Spa 31230+31259 Bath Spa - Salisbury 33033 Salisbury - Bristol TM 50012 Bristol TM - Gloucester...

I managed to miss my posting for OTDIH for 3rd September so let's whizz back in the Time Machine to 1982 when it was solid 50s all the way 50047 Waterloo - Gillingham 50008 Gillingham - Woking 50029 Woking - Yeovil Junction 50047 Yeovil Junction - Salisbury 50010 Salisbury - Sherborne 50040...

I managed to see all of them but never been hauled by one so that will be a "treat" for me. I started bashing a bit too late to get any 44s - February 1978 was when I really started going all out for haulage. But I do not ever remember seeing any turn a wheel ion anger apart from on a farewell...

Not wanting to leave you guys in suspenders with my alighting from 55009 at Peterborough in the wee hours of the 1st September 1979, here were the moves that day 55012 Peterborough - Retford 31185 Retford - Lincoln Class 114 DMU (50001) Lincoln - Sheffield 31203 Sheffield - Chesterfield 31276...

31 August 1979 I was working in Nottingham at the time and to make any decent moves after work, it required a lift into town and a prayer that the traffic was light. Especially when you were aiming for the Harwich Boat Train 47168 Nottingham - Peterborough 31216 Peterborough - March 31309 March...

It's 1982 again! Post 28 (for the 27th of August 1982) saw me bagging the massive 47361 en route to a couple of days with my parents in Bristol. On the 29th, 50005 did the honours of returning back to the smoke on the legendary 16:45 Plymouth-Paddington. This train was advertised non-stop from...

Nobody is going to shout at you for your 159 mileage! Pretty commendable that you have a decent rack of runs with, in my opinion, one of the best DMUs currently running on the network (cannot stand their 158 cousins though) Even though I see 159s most days, my mileage is a lot lower with none...

Yes, LSG, I am a 50 man through and through. 47s though also showing reasonably well although no match for 55013 - around 40k from memory. While I've had well over 450 different class 47s, there's still one around which I need. Must go and get it sometime But I'd often take a break from the 50s...

AJM580 - nice little trip out there although shame you missed the second pair of 37s. I'll continue with another delve into "The Haulage Book", this time, it's 1994 and I fancied a session reducing my Networker requirements. 3482 Wimbledon - Waterloo 465218+466023 Waterloo East - London Bridge...

OK here's my offering for the 27th of August. But you'll all be bored of me leaping around the Midlands so here's what happened in 1982 when I was travelling back from London to my parents for the weekend 47227 Paddington to Reading 50038 Reading to Paddington 50033 Paddington to Oxford 47361...

Thankfully since the late 1970s, everything has been accurately recorded in my part of town - only noted down the month before then. Anyway, back to the time machine ... 26th August 1979 and there was only one place to go when you lived in Nottingham. Why, Skeggy of course! 20147+20195...

And diesel / electric changes would have taken place at Carstairs with Edinburgh portions. Plus Carlisle for anything to/from the Glasgow and South Western. I'm also young enough to remember traction changes at Preston with Liverpool and Barrow portions

Con tinuing on from where I left off on the other thread The clock had ticked past midnight by the time I had bailed from 81001 at Preston so here's the moves from 24th August 1980 40079 Preston - Crewe via Manchester Victoria, Ashton Moss, Denton Junction, Stockport 82008 Crewe - New Street...

Like the "On this day feature" so I'll add my two pence worth. The time machine will take us back to Saturday 23rd August 1980 83009 New Street - Wolverhampton 86207 Wolverhampton - New Street 46035 New Street - Sheffield Assemble on Platform 5 for the gen 31127 Sheffield - Rotherham...

Well done on getting some more shacks scratched as AB rather than just A or B. Nice bonus with 800003 at the end of proceedings ....

I suspect that the North West & Midlands Quail will be one of the next to be updated - the former Western Region one was the last one to be updated and I took that into stock a couple of weeks ago. The previous Quails to be updated were Scotland and the Eastern Region. The TrackAtlas will give...