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Except for 40106, and that vile yellow 312 in the West Midlands. As for Stratford, I also remember seeing 47460 with wooden "Great Eastern" nameplates. ISTR BR stopped the fun with this one by transferring the loco to Haymarket...

The Tamworth and The Gloucester Old Spot are currently undergoing safety checks ready for a potential take off...

Streethouse, Featherstone, Pontecarlo Tanshelf? No direct service AFAIK to Wakefield Kirkgate from Manchester...

Don't know why those two were chosen, however ISTRC 47163 collided with 83004 at Wembley, leading to the latter being withdrawn. (Or was it 47164 taking out 83003??)

This trip was a couple of months ago, but I' ve only recently joined the forum, and been inspired by other reports in this section. On 18/01/2012 i decided to go after a couple of curves which I hadn't covered before. I bought a Lancashire Day Ranger and set off. I took the 11:02 from...

Some say that he drove a City Class 4-4-0 at 102 mph, and the descendents of his racing pigeons are currently in training as a replacement signalling system for Metrolink. He's not the Stig - he's Stig's Edwardian Great Uncle.

May I throw into the ring Sherborne (pop 9350) which has a station and was the seat of a diocesian (as opposed to suffragen) bishop in anglo-saxon times.

Had 33008 and 58037 on cross country services whilst nedding about on WM travelcards in 1985/6.

Just come across this thread, so, in the interrests of completeness : 18/01/2012 - 390020 21/01/2012 - 221139 25/01/2012 - 220027 All fall ons in the sense that I was catching that train anyway, regardless of the sticky digits!