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Wouldn't mind seeing St Pancras-Leicester-Sheffield-Leeds-Carlisle-Dumfries-Kilmarnock-Glasgow Class 45 & Glasgow-Carlisle-Crewe 2 x Class 50 Crewe-Euston Class 86. A Thames-Clyde/Royal Scot combination.
Probably need 2 days though!
But only if you leave Norwich on the last service of the day on Friday as it would otherwise be possible to complete the whole outward journey on the same day. An overnight break on the outward journey is only permitted when it is not possible to complete the journey the same day.
I'm looking specifically for mid 80s (I travelled about a dozen times in 1985/6 from Preston to Glasgow). The 2045 arrival was rescheduled, I believe to provide more reliable timekeeping due to no longer having to pass the 1545 Euston to Carlisle north of Preston. That backfired, though, when...
Well, this takes me back - days out from Liverpool to Colwyn Bay, sitting behind the driver with a view out the front as the DMU shook itself to bits at 70mph!
Bagillt.
In the mid 1980s the APT ran 3 times per week from Glasgow to London and back calling at Motherwell and Preston in each direction. During this period what was the public scheduled arrival time at Glasgow Central on the return journey?
Any tickets from Marston Vale stations to Bedford bought on the train won't work the barriers at Bedford and haven't for at least 4 years. It's annoying really, especially when there's a queue on either side of the single manual gate and a row of barriers that aren't being used.
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