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14/2/98 86221 Norwich - Liverpool Street (1P01 0505 Norwich - Liverpool Street) 87015 Euston - Birmingham New Street (1G17 0735 Euston - Wolverhampton) D9000 Birmingham New Street - Leeds (1E55 0955 Birmingham - Leeds relief) 321901...

Pretty much all of BR in the period before the Sprinters took over. Loco haulage on Summer Saturdays in East Anglia with rare 37s and NB 47s. Devon banks with 50s,45s,33s. Also a soft spot for 1998/99 in particular - top and tail 31s on the Bletchley to Bedfords, North Wales Coast 37s, D9000 on...

Couple of non-league clubs Wroxham FC - adjacent to the Bittern line (Norwich - Sheringham) Witham Town FC - adjacent to the GEML. Used to be able to see the trains going in and out of Norwich from the back rows of the South Stand at Carrow Road, but not anymore after the hotel was built in...

12/12/1981 55002 Norwich - York (BR Special) 55002 York - Norwich (BR Special) As per Sultan1056s post - saw 55016 while at York, together with 55007 which was on Transpennine duties I believe.

Norwich to Windermere return ticket. Was valid via Manchester or WCML so went out via Manchester and back via WCML. Great Yarmouth - Grindleford return.

Cowbridge in the Vale of Glamorgan,

Saturday 28 September 1985 - NENTA "The Cambrian Explorer" 47570 Norwich - Shrewsbury (Abbey Foregate Jn) via Peterborough, Leicester, Nuneaton, Sutton Park, Walsall & Wolverhampton 25303 & 25323 Shrewsbury (Abbey Foregate Jn) - Aberystwyth VOR #8 Aberystwyth - Devils Bridge VOR #8 Devils...

Saturday 24 Sept 1988 156428 Norwich Peterborough (1M67 0640 Norwich - Birmingham NS) 47277 Peterborough - Norwich (1L82 0650 Manchester Picc - Great Yarmouth) 47307 Norwich - Great Yarmouth (1L82 0650 Manchester Picc - Great Yarmouth) 31449 Great Yarmouth - Brundall (1P57 1312 Great...

Hellfire!

At the end of Magnetic Fields IV by Jean-Michel Jarre, there's the sound of a fast train passing. The sounds were recorded by Michel Geiss (Jarre's long-time collaborator

You're right. I did a quick check and realised that I'd copied the wrong details across when updating the spreadsheet. My mileage log shows 37103 !

Saturday 11 Aug 1984 47440 Norwich - Ipswich (1C21 0642 Norwich - Liverpool Street) 47518 Ipswich - Peterborough (1S85 0717 Harwich PQ - Glasgow) 47200 Peterborough - Norwich (1E71 0802 Manchester Picc - Great Yarmouth) 37107 Norwich - Great Yarmouth (1E71 0802 Manchester Picc - Great Yarmouth)...

In Norwich 36, 37,38 & 39 serve Aylsham Road as far as Mile Cross Library

It may be worth checking out the Sanders Coaches website as they run most of the services north of Norwich

Another way would be FEC X29 Bus Norwich - Fakenham, Sanders service 9 Fakenham - Holt NNR station, NNR Holt - Sheringham & then GA from Sheringham - Norwich. The first leg runs out along the A1067, which passes through several places formerly served by the former M&GN branch from Norwich City...

63635 BK24 AAE Wright GB Kite Electroliner 63636 BK24 AAF Wright GB Kite Electroliner 63637 BK24 AAJ Wright GB Kite Electroliner 63638 BK24 AAO Wright GB Kite Electroliner 63639 BK24 AAU Wright GB Kite Electroliner 63640 BK24 AAV Wright GB Kite Electroliner 63641 BK24 AAX Wright GB...

Had it on the Shapeshifter tour - Sept 1998 in a pair with 37238. Hellfire run on the GWML Paddington to Swindon

755s are the best regional train by far, but for a mainline ride, I have to concur with those who nominate the HST. Much better than the IEPs

Both Chesterton locos survive, one at Mountsorrel & the other at the Ashover light Railway

21/4/84 Nenta traintours to Keighley & Carlisle 47487 Norwich - Keighley 34092 Keighley - Haworth 34092 Haworth - Keighley 47487 Keighley - Carlisle 47487 Carlisle - Norwich Both outward & return via S & C Notable sightings that day at Carlisle were 92220 Evening Star, 40028 & 27056