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Yes Roger & I we’re the first TRI’s appointed in 1988 by David Sawyer East Coast fleet engineer in the then nationalised rail industry.

Sea Containers who were the owners of GNER took on the seven year franchise in 1996, in 2002 the renewed the contract for a further seven years but in 2007 they handed it back to the government because of huge losses, we all thought at the time they had overbid.

If I remember correctly Brian Burdsall Eastern Region GM formed a management buy out team to compete for the ECML franchise, all members of staff were to be offered shares in the new company to be known as East Coast with the sun rise logo as in attached picture, in the end Sea Containers won...

Yep from 1988 to 2007.

Started railway career on GWR before moving to the ECML .

Some memories from my time as a locomotive technician on the ECML. I’m in the right in the photograph of the arrival into KX following the first revenue earning Mk 1V set from Newcastle.

Don’t I know it, I was involved with the commissioning of the HST’s on the ECML in 1977 and worked with them until my retirement in 2007, the Valenta was prone to loosing coolant & high water temperature that would return the engine to idling speed until it had cooled down. The loss of coolant...

When first introduced to the ECML there were three types of catering vehicles, TRFB, TRSB & TRUK

I was employed on the technical side by British Rail and then GNER who we were awarded the first privatisation franchise, Inter City was the last brand name under BR.

Ok that explains it, I got a promotion to Gateshead in 1970 but never saw them on the buffer beam.

I have just purchased an Accurascale model Deltic and am confused that their 9014 The Duke Of Wellington Regiment has its warning horns on the buffer beam, I worked on the maintenance of the five Deltic’s allocated to Gateshead TMD and I can’t remember any of the fleet having them in that...