55013's Contemporary Trip Reports

[FQ]

That is one amazing day in the capital! Congratulations on the 442s!

 

[backontrack]

What a great day! Congratulations on the 442s!

 

[Keith Jarrett]

Many congratulations on achieving a full house (or should that be sty) of piggies. You say that when you did Victoria to London Bridge on a previous occasion, was that via the South London Line or as you would have done this time, gone via the more circuitous route via Crystal Palace?

Bit of bad luck with the 91s though although I can sympathise - my last one has a knack of evading me every time I go anywhere near the East Coast.

 

[Techniquest]

What a brilliant day you had! Many congratulations on clearing the 442s, quite the achievement!

A nice bit of variety had there with a megaton of winners! I had wondered where you had been, I can sympathise as I have had a very busy few weeks lately. Sadly not on the rails but at work!

Most excellent a year end bash there. I suspect January will feature a London bash

 

[45135]

Ah, didn't realise you'd cleared the pigs! Sadly it looks like they won't be converted to hauled stock, more's the pity.

Any other railway moves for the year?

 

[55013]

Brilliantly productive day Phil! Well done.

That is one amazing day in the capital! Congratulations on the 442s!

What a great day! Congratulations on the 442s!

Thanks lads, it was a most enjoyable move indeed.

Many congratulations on achieving a full house (or should that be sty) of piggies. You say that when you did Victoria to London Bridge on a previous occasion, was that via the South London Line or as you would have done this time, gone via the more circuitous route via Crystal Palace?

Bit of bad luck with the 91s though although I can sympathise - my last one has a knack of evading me every time I go anywhere near the East Coast.

Cheers, it's funny how things work out - 91102 is now on 1600+ miles but 91101, which was the first one I ever had, is still on less than 500.

As for the route that the 456 took, I'm afraid I've no idea. My unit recording was very poor back then, I just consider myself lucky that I wrote it down at all!

What a brilliant day you had! Many congratulations on clearing the 442s, quite the achievement!

A nice bit of variety had there with a megaton of winners! I had wondered where you had been, I can sympathise as I have had a very busy few weeks lately. Sadly not on the rails but at work!

Most excellent a year end bash there. I suspect January will feature a London bash

Thanks again.
No London move for a few months now.
We're on holiday in North Wales in January so I'm planning on getting the Pwheli line in.
After that I plan on doing a couple of trips to somewhere other than the capital, it's not that I'm fed up with London, it's just that I'm missing Scotland, Cardiff, etc.

Ah, didn't realise you'd cleared the pigs! Sadly it looks like they won't be converted to hauled stock, more's the pity.

Any other railway moves for the year?

It's funny you should say that

I did say it was almost the finish because I had one more move lined up.
This was something a bit different to my usual unit bashing escapades, though.

Every December for a number of years my mates and I have had a Yuletide outing.
Initially this was in the form of Pathfinder’s Christmas tour but in more recent years we have grown increasingly weary of long days stuck on trains with little or no opportunity to stretch our legs and get some fresh air, so we have developed a habit of doing a Chiltern bash.

The move is always the same.
I drive as I don’t drink, I collect Mr 45135 and we head over to our mate’s house in Huddersfield.

He prepares a full English breakfast which we all eat whilst watching music and train videos on Youtube, then we go out to his shed, which is filled with railway memorabilia and we have a cigar each.

After that I drive us all to Solihull and we head to London on the loco hauled service that leaves Moor Street at 13.55.
Once in London it’s round to the Weatherspoon’s on Baker Street for a mixed grill (well, it is Chrstmas and we haven’t eaten for several hours) and a few pints before returning to Marylebone and catching the 18.10 service back to Solihull, then I drive us home.
That was the plan for Saturday the 12th of December.

Anyone who was out on Chiltern that day will suspect that things didn’t quite work out like that.

Initially, everything went like clockwork.
I picked 45135 up from Forster Square station, we drove to Steve’s and had a fine breakfast, watching footage of loco hauled services on the Dawlish Sea wall in the 1980s, then it was out to his shed to view the memorabilia and reminisce whilst his wife did the washing up

Solihull was reached in plenty of time and the train arrived with 68008 pushing, dud for me and 45135 but a winner for Steve.
A punctual departure was followed by an on time arrival at Dorridge.

And there we stayed.

Time ticked on.
We were talking and didn’t notice at first that we hadn’t moved.
Suddenly there was an announcement.
We weren’t going anywhere for a while as there was an obstruction on the line ahead.
Bah.
A few minutes later, another announcement.
The train was cancelled due to a person hit by a train near Leamington Spa.
Everyone off.

Nobody had a clue what was going on and chaos ruled.
We discussed our options.
We didn’t really have any.
By the time we got to London it would be too late for us to have our traditional meal.

68008 at Dorridge, massed ranks of befuddled passengers not visible:
68008_2015.12.12_Dorridge by Phil Wood, on Flickr

All we could do was return to Solihull, get our money back and purchase a Day Tripper instead.
This would give us the chance of getting to Leamington in order to pick up the train we originally intended to do from London.
Assuming, of course, that it actually ran.

Whilst we were debating, 68008 had pushed the empty stock out of the station and disappeared South.
A short while later it re-appeared heading North and stopped in platform 2.
It was, apparently, forming a service to Moor Street.

Chaos was still king and the guard had to make a couple of trips up and down the train, telling those that wanted to go to London that they needed to cram on board 165023, which was stood in platform 3, and do this to Leamington for a bus to Banbury.

We stayed on board and got another 3 miles on 68008 as we took it back to Solihull.
Our hope had been for a run of just over a hundred miles, instead we had got six.
Oh well, other people were having a worse day than us.

After sorting out the tickets it was 172344 to Moor Street, this was in the hope that 68008 would work something South as there was now a service to Marylebone that seemed to be going through and the announcements were saying that the line had re-opened.

Although our hopes of a bit more 68008 action were dashed there was a silver lining for me as the Marylebone service was formed of one of my last two 168s, 168106 and this was taken to Leamington Spa.
Just 168109 to go now.
Now it was a case of same plan, different location, as we headed to the Weatherspoon’s in Leamington.
I can’t quite remember its name; it’s something like the Jug and Kale.

After the obligatory mixed grill it was back to the station and our last train of the day.
We knew from RTT that it was running on time and had seen the gen that it was a requirement for all of us that was doing the work.

The day’s frustrations finally melted away when we observed that it was, indeed, 68009 on the front.
16 miles of Cat haulage was enjoyed before we headed for home.
So, in the end it turned out to be a good day for us, despite the unfortunate circumstances.

 

[FQ]

That sounds like a chaotic day indeed! Lucky that you managed to get 168106 from it though!

 

[45135]

I might be able to help with a couple of these...

As for the route that the 456 took, I'm afraid I've no idea. My unit recording was very poor back then, I just consider myself lucky that I wrote it down at all!

It took the 'Atlantic Lines' (now disconnected I think?) at Battersea Park then Wandsworth Road and Denmark Hill.

Now it was a case of same plan, different location, as we headed to the Weatherspoon’s in Leamington.
I can’t quite remember its name; it’s something like the Jug and Kale.

It was the Jug and Jester
Mini review: handy for the station, a fairly typical Spoons, very busy with plenty of comings and goings, beers in good condition if a tad on the strong side, bar miles too small.

 

[Techniquest]

I've done the Jug and Jester, nice place and decent staff.

Harsh on the plan going belly up, at least you all managed a decent pre-Frothmas time, jealous of 68008 and 68009 as I need both of those!

 

[Kristofferson]

I think your 442 jaunt is the most successful trip report I've read! All the 442s done and all DMUs seen? Now that's a way to end the year.

Shame the Xmas bash didn't work out quite as planned - sounds like an excellent time usually and like you say, not exactly a bad time this year

 

[FQ]

Jealous of 68008 and 68009 as I need both of those!

Both of those are pushing on 300 miles for me! Oh, and 014? 851.25 miles! You'll get them soon enough though.

 

[47403]

Another great read again 55013, What an absolute downer with the Chiltern Kitties, at least you got a winner out of it, if not the kitty miles, albeit a very very scant consolation but huge congrats on getting all the 442's. Its great when days like that, come together and work out.

Not that I've cleared many for haulage, I did have all the original 143's 001-025, having family on Wearside and if you add on whizzing down to Seaham, every few weeks for my Dad and his friends fishing bait(was my dads friends shop, so they threw a fair bit business his way, especially if they had a tournament on, for a bit discount), however there was a catch(no pun intended) with that favour, I'd agreed to go and collect this mega bundle of worms and stuff with a cooler box, on 1 condition, they stumped up the fare, for a day return to Thornaby, if I had to ride a bloody 143, they had to make it worthwhile, that certainly helped me get a few 143's in the bag and get to see stuff on Thornaby, that chore, became even better when the fault on the 143's materialised and it became a loco hauled turn. Then I'd be asking them if they wanted me to go for bait, my dad, certainly knew the score, he'd be getting the loco hauled turns himself to and from my grandmothers and became an inadvertant gen source.

Unfortunately somebody had the infinite wisdom, to bloody re-numbered the 143's and the race was on to get em all for sight again, nevermind, getting them all for haulage, the latter was a feat I obviously failed at but in truth it was a right pain in the ass, re-hunting them down for sight again, fortunately I managed to get them all, before they all actually buggered off as far away from the North East as humanly possible to get them. Not that I complained until the 142's appeared I didnt anyway.

Like you, many moos back, I would never have envisaged chasing units, it took me a dogs age to recover from the class 47 hauled pennine services being replaced by 158's. I remember walking out of Central Station totally disgusted at seeing the 158's on the Liverpool turn.

However on recent trips, I've went for any unit, that weren't hauled by pacer and on the North West Rover, on the last day, I found myself being totally pre-occupied looking for 350403, to clear them for haulage.

 

[Kite159]

Congrats on the Pigs and a good day in London

 

[backontrack]

Looks like you had a good trip! You were unlucky with the chaos though.

 

[CC 72100]

It was the Jug and Jester
Mini review: handy for the station, a fairly typical Spoons, very busy with plenty of comings and goings, beers in good condition if a tad on the strong side, bar miles too small.

Ah - was in there yesterday, found ourselves in Leamington for the same reason

 

[55013]

Thanks chaps.

That sounds like a chaotic day indeed! Lucky that you managed to get 168106 from it though!

It was somewhat shambolic, that's for sure.
168106 was pretty good compensation for losing some 68 miles, I must admit.

It took the 'Atlantic Lines' (now disconnected I think?) at Battersea Park then Wandsworth Road and Denmark Hill.

Ah, cheers matey. I curse my poor recording back then.

It was the Jug and Jester

That's it! Don't know why I was thinking of curly kale

I did have all the original 143's 001-025,

Unfortunately somebody had the infinite wisdom, to bloody re-numbered the 143's and the race was on to get em all for sight again, nevermind, getting them all for haulage, the latter was a feat I obviously failed at but in truth it was a right pain in the ass, re-hunting them down for sight again, fortunately I managed to get them all, before they all actually buggered off as far away from the North East as humanly possible to get them. Not that I complained until the 142's appeared I didnt anyway.

I don't worry about re-numberings, so that was never a problem. I have been lucky with the 143s, at one point I'd had three of them - 143602, 143613 and 143615.
613 and 615 were, of course, the first (and so far only) two to be withdrawn.
I've now had them all, so I don't care what the third withdrawal is

Like you, many moos back, I would never have envisaged chasing units, it took me a dogs age to recover from the class 47 hauled pennine services being replaced by 158's. I remember walking out of Central Station totally disgusted at seeing the 158's on the Liverpool turn.

However on recent trips, I've went for any unit, that weren't hauled by pacer and on the North West Rover, on the last day, I found myself being totally pre-occupied looking for 350403, to clear them for haulage.

I don't regret any loco move I did in the old days - a dud loco beat a winning unit, but I do wish I'd properly recorded the units that I did have.

Talking of the Pennines, after covering them for many years it was a real shock to the system when they finished.
Did you do them on the last day?

My moves for 20/01/1991 (nearly 25 years ago!) were:
47443 Huddersfield - York
47422 York - Leeds
47597 Leeds - York
47640 York - Leeds
47492 Leeds - Newcastle
47443 Newcastle - Huddersfield

And that was that. I remember it very well - 47443s train was a paltry load 4 due to an earlier service failing (47704 I believe) and was absolutely wedged with cranks.

 

[jayalongtheway]

My moves for 20/01/1991 (nearly 25 years ago!) were:
47443 Huddersfield - York
47422 York - Leeds
47597 Leeds - York
47640 York - Leeds
47492 Leeds - Newcastle
47443 Newcastle - Huddersfield

Didn't we take it all for granted? A couple of Scottish beasties in there. Something about Scottish Brush - especially with ploughs!

 

[55013]

Didn't we take it all for granted? A couple of Scottish beasties in there. Something about Scottish Brush - especially with ploughs!

Take it all for granted? Didn't we just.

Even though we had lost a lot by 1991 there was still plenty to keep us amused.
To illustrate that, the day before the Pennine finale my moves were:

19/01/1991:
91027 Wakefield - Kings Cross
47708 Waterloo - Basingstoke
50048 Basingstoke - Woking
50043 Woking - Basingstoke
47576 Basingstoke - Woking
50048 Woking - Basingstoke
50049 Basingstoke - Woking
50001 Woking - Andover
47708 Andover - Waterloo
91027 Kings Cross - Wakefield

Another former Scottish machine amongst that lot

 

[47403]

Regrettably 55013 I wasnt on the last day workings of the Trans Pennine turn, I was working daft shifts at a hotel and couldn't get time off. I know it was late in a month but for some reason, I thought it was May, I know, I was also entering, to coin Lord Trams phrase, entering normaldon, I was in a relationship, drinking like a loon too, going to gigs, as you do in your late teens, early 20's, as women, beer, gigs and footy were replacing trains ever rapidly, especially with loco hauled travel dwindling, due to the HST's rapidly taking over, my interest was dwindling big time.
However near the end of the turns, a week, maybe a fornight before the end, 47642 Strathisla, in Intercity ScotRail livery, I think anyway, 47635 Jimmy Milne, large logo livery, with the domino headbox, a highland stag, sure it was a stag but could've quite easily been an ED scotty dog, looked the nuts, i loved the large logo livery and black dominos, always a bonus and also large logo liveried 47512, all materialised on a solo mission of my own between Newcastle and York. Strathisla, if I remember rightly was a winner for haulage, 47635, I'd had from Queen St to somewhere like Stirling, I have a poor photo of it, tucked in the cover of my NREA, to this day and 47512 was a local stalwart. Funny though the 1st two weren't what you'd call regulars of the Trans Pennine turns, more akin to Loco's that worked the 1S15, 17.15 Newcastle-Edinburgh stopper. Anything remotely Scottish on Gateshead with ETH normally got sent home to the Scottish Capital via this turn, however another thing about that turn, just about anything could work it, 31's, 37's, peaks, 47's and in the earlier days, even Deltics and 40's were used, I wasn't old enough for the latter loco's, anyway I digress. Them 3 47's, were the very last time, I was to EVER ride a loco on the Liverpool turns. I knew 47443 North Eastern worked the last one (a lad i knew was on it) obviously it had gained 47401's, nameplates by then too, quite apt, as the GD generators were named and done up for the Liverpool turns, so at least, it left with a bit of nostalgia too.

Like I said before, I walked onto Central one day for a look round about a month or so later and there was the unit to replace the 47, a 158 on the Liverpool turn, was like stealing a huge chunk of my past, I walked out, totally disheartened and about a month or two later, I barely looked at a train again for at least 5yrs, when I saw an N-Power liveried 59 on a coal train, even then it still took a good while, then I heard about 47's on the Bristol turns, I'd take that down to Darlo, now and again, just for them but still didnt, get into the hobby for a good while after that, even after the Bristol turn was lost too, I somehow had the urge to come back, why? because once this hobby's in your blood, its hard bloody hard to eradicate it altogether, plus, when I split up with my ex, this hobby occupied my mind and got me away from all the crap that was going on too.

My sincere apologies if I've hijacked this thread 55013.

 

[55013]

My sincere apologies if I've hijacked this thread 55013.

No apology necessary!
I enjoy reading all the trip reports on here, but especially the ones from the old days and any bit of reminiscing is alright by me, regardless of which thread it ends up in.
I well remember those ex Scottish 47s appearing.
In fact, I've just dug out a shot of 47635, complete with dominoes and stag, in your neck of the woods.
December 1990, little more than a month before the end.

47635_1990.12.11_Newcastle by Phil Wood, on Flickr

I'd just done it from Leeds and shortly after did it back

Anyway, on with the show.

It turns out I managed to get one last trip in during 2015.
After visiting relatives on Christmas day and spending Saturday and Sunday relaxing at home, my wife suggested that I might like a few hours out on Monday the 28th whilst she tidied the house.
“No thanks, love, I’ll stay here and give you a hand” I said.
Actually, that’s not what I said

As on previous occasions this year when presented with a last minute opportunity for a few hours out, I decided to get a few more West Yorkshire stations ticked off.
My original plan was to drive to Apperley Bridge but a quick check on RTT showed that nothing was running between Leeds and Shipley, due to flooding.
West Yorkshire’s newest station (for now) will just have to wait until 2016.
Several times this year I had left work intending to stay on board my train home and take it to Micklefield.
On all but one of those occasions my train had reached Bradford and I had thought “Ah, stuff it, I can do Micklefield another day” and gone home instead.
On the one occasion I did make a serious attempt at it (getting out of work early especially for the task) the 153/155 pairing I was on suffered a fault and an emergency brake application saw the train stop for a lengthy spell before crawling on to Bradford and terminating.
So I went home.
Just for the avoidance of doubt, this was a unit problem and not a driver issue – it had happened earlier in the journey, between Manchester and Halifax, as well.

Now I was determined that it was Micklefield or bust.
As Apperley Bridge was out, I drove to Bradford and took 158756 from Interchange to Leeds.
Although this train stopped at Micklefield I had something else on the agenda.
In over thirty years of enthusing I had, as far as I can recall, never done a train out of platform 14 at Leeds.
This is one of two East facing bays and only sees a couple of trains a day.
I had noticed on RTT that the 09.50 Leeds to Selby was one of the trains that’s booked to use it and what’s more, the 09.50 stopped at Micklefield, so I could kill two birds with one stone.
I’m not a BLS type but I do like to get little bits of track in if they interest me and the only required platform at Leeds fitted the bill.
It was 144023 that had the task of taking me from platform 14 to Micklefield and in true BLS style I sat as near to the buffer stops as possible before departure

Platform 14:
DMU 144023_2015.12.28_1_Leeds by Phil Wood, on Flickr

The down side of doing this service is that it has a plus zero for something back and sure enough 150270 was just pulling into platform 2 as I bailed out of 144023 at Micklefield.
Obviously I knew about this and considered the prospect of a half hour fester to be worth it to get platform 14.
As it’s a staggered platform I had no chance of getting over for the 150.
So a half hour fester is what I got.
To be fair, it wasn’t too bad, with several units passing through which kept my camera busy.

I don't think I can make it:
DMU 150270_2015.12.28_1_Micklefield_& 144023 by Phil Wood, on Flickr

Now it was a trip to the other side of the county as I had another couple of things lined up.
It was dud for the day 158756 that I took back to Leeds where I intended to get the next Doncaster bound EMU.
This was 322482, but as I had already cleared all four coaches of it and a sub thousand mile 91 was due to leave five minutes before it I opted for the loco instead.
I took 91105, still below the thousand, but now a little bit closer, to Wakefield and then five minutes later boarded the 322.
When I had been stood at Leeds waiting for the doors to be opened on 144023 I had observed the “ePacer”, 144012, waiting to head to Sheffield.
I fancied trying it out and so had done a bit of research.
My plan all along had been to do the 322 to Fitzwilliam and catch the service from Sheffield back.
It was a happy coincidence that the train I intended to do and the one that I expected 144012 to work were one and the same.
322482 was duly taken to Fitzwilliam, a station that I had actually visited before, photographing, but never by train.
As anticipated, after a short wait it was 144012 that arrived.
My verdict?
It’s alright, I suppose.

A 21st century pacer, apparently:
DMU 144012_2015.12.28_2_Wakefield Westgate by Phil Wood, on Flickr

Anyway, I bailed off 144012 at Westgate and then gave some thought to what I could do next.
A large chunk of the stations that I need in the area are on the Huddersfield to Sheffield line and so I thought about catching the next service over.
Unfortunately, when I had a look at the timetable it turns out the hourly Sheffield train leaves Huddersfield three minutes before the one from Wakefield arrives.
My other option was to take the next Doncaster service to South Elmsall.
This was a station I hadn’t bothered doing before because it involves a fifty-minute fester when coming from the Wakefield direction as you have to wait for the same unit coming back.
I decided that if it was a unit with two required coaches then I would bite the bullet and get it in the book.
There were only two EMUs that fitted the bill, 322481 and 322483.
It was 322483 that turned up and so I boarded in coach 78165 and headed to the salubrious surrounds of South Elmsall.
I thoroughly enjoyed my fifty minutes soaking up the opulent atmosphere of South Elmsall.
That’s a lie.
The place is a dump.
The station was full of youths, smoking dope and spitting all over the place (I hate spitting!) as well as adults who were smoking ordinary cigs and spitting and a lone cyclist who was just spitting.
South Elmsall – not for the faint hearted

South Elmsall, early arrivals for the cannabis party can be seen skinning up in the shelter opposite (no joke!):
EMU 322483_2015.12.28_South Elmsall by Phil Wood, on Flickr

I had a bit of a wander around the town but didn’t see much to improve my opinion of the place, so I mooched back and joined the meeting of the South Elmsall spitting society on the platform.
Eventually 322483 re-appeared and I went in 63139 for the run through to Leeds.
That leaves me needing four coaches from West Yorkshire’s EMU fleet – one each from 321901 and 322485 and two from 322481.

My plan now was to get two more shacks in then go home.
Once at Leeds it was round to platform 1 and the pairing of 153324/150226 which I took to Headingley.
A short wait saw an identical pairing appear, this time 153304 leading 150228.
I did these to Leeds and then back out again to Burley Park.

Fifth and final winning shack of the day:
DMU 150228_2015.12.28_Burley Park_& 153304 by Phil Wood, on Flickr

150114 was the traction back to Leeds and then I was thinking of heading home.
158790 was on a Huddersfield via Bradford service and so I did that.
Due to the flooding mentioned earlier, the train was wedged as everyone going to Bradford was having to come this way.
I realised that this train met my usual train home from work at Halifax and knowing this was almost always a 142 I decided to stay on 158790 when it emptied at Interchange.
I’m still after two Northern 142 coaches, one each from 142060 and 142061, so hoped it would be one of them for my last run.
In the event, it was 142025 that produced for a carbon copy of my commute home.
Once back at Interchange it was over to my car and home before five.

So, not a bad day at all, with five shacks scratched, not to mention finally getting something out of platform 14 at Leeds and another ten miles on 91105.
I now need twelve West Yorkshire stations (plus two that should open within the next few months), not bad when you consider that I required about 35 at the start of 2015.
No prizes for guessing that one of my aims for 2016 is to clear my home county!

 

[Techniquest]

Congratulations on getting all platforms griced at Leeds, I'm only 3 or 4 behind. And yes, 14 is required!

Quite a decent little day out, except for the less than pleasant conditions in South Elmsall. I must remember my wits for the day I visit!

 

[backontrack]

Looks like you had a great trip! I like the photos.

 

[FQ]

Sounds like a fun day away! Why not catch a train from the Donny direction to get South Elmsall because if it's a plus 50 from the Leeds way then wouldn't it be a +10 from the Donny way?

 

[ash39]

An interesting read as always. Platform 7 is the other east facing bay at Leeds which rarely seems to get used from what I've seen, when/how did you get that one in?

 

[47403]

55013 shared this whopper, oh wow-

No apology necessary!
In fact, I've just dug out a shot of 47635, complete with dominoes and stag, in your neck of the woods.
December 1990, little more than a month before the end.

47635_1990.12.11_Newcastle by Phil Wood, on Flickr
I'd just done it from Leeds and shortly after did it back

(shakes uncontrolably, frothing at the mouth)
NURRRRSSSSEEEE !!!!!!!!

 

[55013]

Congratulations on getting all platforms griced at Leeds, I'm only 3 or 4 behind. And yes, 14 is required!

Quite a decent little day out, except for the less than pleasant conditions in South Elmsall. I must remember my wits for the day I visit!

Looks like you had a great trip! I like the photos.

Sounds like a fun day away! Why not catch a train from the Donny direction to get South Elmsall because if it's a plus 50 from the Leeds way then wouldn't it be a +10 from the Donny way?

Thanks lads.
I would advise doing it from Doncaster for the shorter wait.
That was my initial idea but I decided to do it from within West Yorkshire so it didn't cost me any money

An interesting read as always. Platform 7 is the other east facing bay at Leeds which rarely seems to get used from what I've seen, when/how did you get that one in?

I got platform 7 on a Sunday morning trip to York with Mrs 13, back in April.
I believe it was the 09.15 Leeds to Scarborough TP service, which I see is now booked from 14!

55013 shared this whopper, oh wow-

(shakes uncontrolably, frothing at the mouth)
NURRRRSSSSEEEE !!!!!!!!

Glad you like it

 

[47403]

Thanks lads.
I would advise doing it from Doncaster for the shorter wait.
That was my initial idea but I decided to do it from within West Yorkshire so it didn't cost me any money



I got platform 7 on a Sunday morning trip to York with Mrs 13, back in April.
I believe it was the 09.15 Leeds to Scarborough TP service, which I see is now booked from 14!




Glad you like it

Like it, I nearly fainted 55013 That brings back a few memories, many many thanks for sharing that. REGRETTABLY, I havent even read the trip report yet, I will endeavour to read it honest.

 

[Keith Jarrett]

Sounds like a productive day in home territory. That +0 at Mickleford must be frustrating - now if it had been an island platform, no trouble!

 

[Kite159]

Sounds like a productive day in home territory. That +0 at Mickleford must be frustrating - now if it had been an island platform, no trouble!

At least it was only a +30 rather than a +60

From that picture it looks to be a tight station to get between platforms

 

[Techniquest]

It is a bit, a +3 would have been the ideal minimum from memory