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The Manchester book you show is the post war one. the pre war one is called the " The track of the 25's", that being the time of departure from St Pancras. £75 for that Coronation book mine cost me £6.

The London to Manchester book was called " The Track of the Twenty-Fives". Also the LMS did "The Track Of The Coronation Scot" and the LNER did a Coronation book but this was more about the train. 2 1777585916 Sorry about the big space above something went...

Yea Carlisle has only ever had three through platforms.

My one trip on a 810 the air con was so noisy like having a vac. cleaner over your head !

222011 on 1C20 failed at Leicester this morning.

Looks to be running Ok now, held 15 mins at Nuneaton maybe some MPs or etc. were late turning up.

Is there a problem at Nuneaton ?

Yes still 8 cars at Kilby Bridge Jn. :D

Yes had a look at the 1952 film had to hold on to my seat at home :D

A loco came from Derby arrived at 2019 see 0O87.

Does that mean that 5873 was the last one to go north, I've got a fair few shots of them now in the Leicester area.

I got my info from my set of GBTT's I've got the lot from the first all line TT in 1974 I got it the year it came out and got every one after that. they are all stacked up on a shelf. I think I need to get out more !:|

11.09 Leeds - Birmingham NS arr. 13.24. Did leave Sheffield at 12.00.

Had a look the other day, the change to diesel power is about a mile north of Kibworth. Its about the same spot where Wistow signal box was, on the road from Kibworth to Wistow Park and Kilby village you can see the lower pantograph sign a few hundred yards to the North.

The Bristol, birmingham, Derby route was up to Derby being the Midland HQ. With Derby soon to be the HQ of Great British Railways perhaps all line over the country should be up to Derby, the Midland wins at last:D

Some of the semi-fasts ran on Sats. only to Leicester with the ECS then going empty to Derby. But with the DMU still running to Derby!

Yes my only trip on a 810 was accompanied by the deafening sound of the air con. like having a vac. cleaner above your head.

Yes I have it too, the "Starting Something Big at Bristol" came from words on posters put up at stations telling people about what was going on.

Was it due to the Bristol area resignalling, some of the platforms at Temple Meads were out of use.

Kelsey's Pub. On Shed Vol 6 tells use that the 3 road servicing shed demolished and the new HST shed opened in Sep. 1981. The new shed went the full length of the depot, have a look on Google maps. The 2nd pic. cannot be the new HST shed.