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4/4/19. A Southland Raid, Day 1 It's dangerous when payday occurs when you're out on the rails. Particularly when you have done a decent amount of overtime, and you are sitting in the wifi-connected Spoons in Nottingham, replete with steak and kidney pudding, and getting slightly bored with...

33053 was preserved at the Mid Hants Railway a few years ago - and rather entertaining when powering up the hill. 33035 seems to be a regular on the Diesel Gala circuit in the last couple of years. Also a fine performer.

Welcome back from me, too. Always enjoy your reports, particularly the nostalgic ones!

And the trip was successfully completed today, with the new track being from Oxford to Bicester and Aylesbury to its Vale Parkway. 7 new shacks were visited and 25 winners picked up (plus 4 tube winners). And classes 313 and 165 were cleared for sight (only took 40 years for the former - I...

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5/4/19 Bicester Village Aylesbury Vale Parkway

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4/4/19 Bognor Regis Portslade Walmer St Leonards Warrior Square Haywards Heath

Been on a rather spanking blue and grey one today! :) Last bit of new track was sneaked in at 23:50. St Pancras to Finsbury Park, which sounds totally wrong to a traditionalit like me...

And further odd bits of track highlighted now include Hove to Brighton, Normans Bay to Bo Peep Jc and Lewes to Haywards Heath. One more bit to go before midnight...

My Lords! Southern 313s have wifi! All on track so far, with new track from Three Bridges to Horsham and Barnham to Bognor scored. The curve from Ford Jc to Littlehampton Jc will follow in a couple of minutes... :)

27/03/19 - New Trackery in the Near East Wednesday started the same way as Tuesday, with sausage cob and coffee at Beeston Hauptbahnhof. 170521 then appeared for a run into Nottingham, before 156408 turned up on the Lincoln train. Then followed some semi-new track, as I'd never previously...

26/03/2019 - Derbyshire day Today's ticket was a Derbyshire Wayfarer, with handy Beeston add - on. First priority after getting my ticket was an excellent sausage cob and coffee from the shop at the station. Then 170104 purred in, and I set off westward, noting 08417, 08588 and 73962 at Derby...

28/3/19 Normanton Glasshoughton

27/3/19 East Midlands Parkway (tumbleweed blowing past) Kettering (nice old station roofs)

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26/3/19 Willington (lovely walk by canal) Cromford (high on a hill) Ambergate (can hear but not see main line) Matlock Bath (pleasant spot, nice gift shop) Spondon (bleak industrial estate) Uttoxeter (slightly down at heel market town) Tutbury & Hatton (dunno, was dark!)

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25/3/19 (continued). After booking in, dropping my bag off at my room and 30 minutes chilling, I wandered back to Beeston station. Dud Meridian 220013 took me back into Nottingham, then dud 156497 took me out to a shack score at Carlton. 45 or so minutes here, but the adjacent pub is a...

East Midlands Day 1 (Monday 25th). Made a later than planned start, so decided to abandon the 3 Day Rover idea in favour of Day tickets. A Spoons breakfast in Rochdale and a walk up to the station resulted in my first pacers of the year, with 142030/051 rattling me speedily to Manchester...