Friday 03/03/78
45040 1706 Leeds – York
40057 1925 York – Leeds
46046 1906 Leeds – York
I’m a bit confused as to what order I had these in, whether some very late running was involved, or what. If I really had them in this order, then 46046 must have been a good hour late. Alternatively it might have been:
45040 1706 Leeds – York
DMU York - Leeds
46046 1906 Leeds – York
40057 1925 York – Leeds
DMU Leeds – York
Saturday 03/03/79
43078 + 43095 1620 Harrogate – Leeds
Normally the inward working was a through train from Kings Cross, but in this instance the set arrived ECS at 1628. On the journey we struck a pile of tubular steel chairs which had been deliberately placed on the track at Headingley. 15’->28’ late.
40028 1805 Leeds – Settle
40186 (+40023 dead) 1953 Settle – Leeds.
The 1610 Glasgow Central – Nottingham was 40023, but it had failed at Kilmarnock with a traction motor fault. It was shunted off at Kilmarnock to be replaced by 40186, but then it was put back on as 40186 didn’t have a working train heat boiler. At Carlisle the driver’s assistant declined the option to sit alone on 40023 as a boiler operator, so 40023 was shut down and dragged dead (and cold) the rest of the way. 140’ late. Quite a fester at Settle.
Monday 03/03/80
40159 2000 Kings Cross – York via Selby
3’->14’ late, replaced at York by 47408, due to vacuum difficulties. 92 mph achieved south of Peterborough, despite load 12.
Wednesday 03/03/82
I had navigated my way unsteadily from the
Three Legs of Man to Piccadilly station and poured myself onto the 0120 Cleethorpes papers:
40044 0120 Manchester Piccadilly – Doncaster
Amazingly I woke up as planned at Doncaster, and headed south, ready for another day at work:
47130 0311 Doncaster – Kings Cross
Monday 03/03/86
Still on my desperate bash flapping haphazardly around bits of England:
33030 0548 East Croydon – Uckfield
33030 0711 Uckfield – London Bridge
87026 0905 Euston – Birmingham New Street
87011 1110 Birmingham New Street – Crewe “The Clansman”, via Aston, Bescot, Wolverhampton
Prototype Sprinter 150 001 Crewe – Stoke
85015 1354 Stoke on Trent – Stockport
55006 (Bubble Car) Stockport – Stalybridge
45146 1503 Stalybridge – Leeds
47625 1605 Leeds – Carlisle
87027 1943 Carlisle – Glasgow Central
Friday 03/03/95
… still en route to my meeting in Mossend …
87025 0600 Carstairs – Motherwell, 133’ late.
91016 1614 Motherwell – Kings Cross via Edinburgh, Hambleton
43127 + 43187 2230 Paddington – Reading
Friday 03/03/00
I was at work in London when I got the tip that the 1418 Brighton – Blackpool North was going to be a 37 today, following a failure:
2413 Waterloo – Haslemere
37602 1459 Haslemere – Reading via Guildford, Wokingham
