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Thursday 29th May 1986 (day 5)

47426 Carlisle-Stranraer 1S06 2110 Euston-Stranraer (the only time I did the tain when it didnt have a pilot from Ayr)
47559 Stranraer-Glasgow C 1A02 0725 Stranraer-Glasgow C
47701 Glasgow QS-Haymarket 1O18 1030 Glasgow QS-Edinburgh
47644 Haymarket-Leuchars 2J05 1115 Edinburgh-Dundee
27056 Leuchars-Edinburgh 2J02 1230 Dundee-Edinburgh
47408 Edinburgh-Carstairs 1C69 1415 Edinburgh-Carstairs
85010 Carstairs-Mossend Yard 1S59 0725 Taunton-Inverness
47503 Mossend Yard-Cowlairs 1S59
37412 (47503 DOR) Cowlairs-Glasgow QS 1S59
47503 Glasgow QS-Dunblane 1S59
47491 Dunblane-Stirling 1B34 1430 Inverness-Edinburgh
47716 Stirling-Montrose 1A67 1725 Glasgow QS-Aberdeen
47703 Montrose-Glasgow QS 1T48 1845 Dyce-Glasgow QS
47709 Glasgow QS-Edinburgh 1O64 2200 Glasgow QS-Edinburgh
47462 Edinburgh-Inverness 1H01 2323 Edinburgh-Inverness
 
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FRIDAY 30th MAY 1986:

16 2207 Voss-Oslo Sentral
17 2223 Oslo Sentral-Hamar


BANK HOLIDAY MONDAY 30th MAY 1988:

No loco haulage on this date, but Network SouthEast held an open day at Woking, which included a shuttle service between there and Guildford operated by preserved 2-BIL EMU no. 2090 and preserved 4-SUB unit no.4732.

EMU Ryde Esplanade-Ryde Pierhead
Wightlink Seacat Ryde Pierhead-Portsmouth Harbour
EMU Portsmouth Harbour-Woking
2090+4732 Woking-Guildford
EMU Guildford-Portsmouth Harbour
Wightlink Seacat Portsmouth Harbour-Ryde Pierhead
EMU Ryde Pierhead-Ryde St John's Road
 
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47517 Inverness-Aberdeen 1A44 0555 Inverness-Aberdeen
47711 Aberdeen-Dundee 1T14 0845 Dyce-Glasgow QS
47571 Dundee-Edinburgh 2J10 1030 Dundee-Edinburgh
27056 Edinburgh-Dundee 2J11 1215 Edinburgh-Dundee
47715 Dundee-Perth 1T26 1300 Aberdeen-Glasgow QS
37261 Perth-Stirling 1T30 1230 Inverness-Glasgow QS
DMU Stirling-Larbert 1540 Dunblane-Glasgow QS
47715 Larbert-Stirling 1L37 1603 Glasgow QS-Arbroath
47440 Stirling-Inverness 1S59 0725 Taunton-Inverness
47459 Inverness-Keith 1A60 2055 Inverness-Aberdeen
47643 Keith-Inverness 1H37 2050 Aberdeen-Inverness
47440 Inverness-Glasgow QS 1T04 2330 Inverness-Glasgow QS
 

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Friday 30 May 1980
8TC+4REP EMU 1946 London Waterloo - Bournemouth (London Waterloo to Basingstoke)
73112 SL 1W95 (90) 2005 London Waterloo - Weymouth Quay Channel Islands Boat Express (Basingstoke to Bournemouth)
33108 EH + 4TC EMU 2035 London Waterloo - Weymouth (Bournemouth to Moreton)
33114 EH 1W50 2238 Weymouth Town - London Waterloo Up TPO (Moreton to Eastleigh)

Wednesday 30 May 1984
47559 CF 1N05 2330 (29/05) Glasgow Queen Street - Inverness (Perth to Pitlochry)
47406 GD 1T04 2350 (29/05) Inverness - Glasgow Queen Street (Pitlochry to Glasgow Queen Street)
37022 ED + ETHEL 2 1S07 2210 (PD) London Euston - Fort William (Glasgow Queen Street to Fort William)
banked up Cowlairs Bank by 47708 HA
98507 as 5407 LMS 5MT Black Five 4-6-0 1B13 1110 Fort William - Mallaig (Fort William to Mallaig)
98507 as 5407 LMS 5MT Black Five 4-6-0 1B11 1340 Mallaig - Fort William (Mallaig to Fort William)
37022 + ETHEL 3 1M15 1740 Fort William - London Euston (Fort William to Glasgow Queen Street)
47595 ED 1M15 1740 Fort William - London Euston via Stirling (RM) (Glasgow Queen Street to Mossend)
banked up Cowlairs Bank to Eastfield Up & Dn Pass Loop by 37022 ED with ETHEL 3

Monday 30 May 1988 (part of a jaunt around the Nordic regions)
VR 3109 2130 Helsinki - Oulu (Pieksämäki to Iisalmi)
VR not recorded Dv12 + 2530 0615 Iisalmi - Ylivieska (Iisalmi to Ylivieska)
VR 3063 0715 Oulu - Helsinki (Ylivieska to Seinajoki)
VR 3067 0700 Helsinki - Rovaniemi (Seinajoki to Oulu)
VR 2802 0700 Helsinki - Rovaniemi (Oulu to Kemi)
Bus Kemi to Tornio
SJ 2*Y1 DMU 1635 Tornio
- Haparanda (Tornio to Haparanda)
SJ 2*Y1 DMU 1755 Haparanda to Boden (Haparanda to Boden)
SJ 1358 1350 Narvik - Luleå (Boden to Luleå)
 

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Saturday 31st May 1984 (day 7)

47701 Glasgow QS-Edinburgh 1O06 0730 Glasgow QS-Edinburgh
27005 Edinburgh-Dundee 2J15 1015 Edinburgh-Dundee
27005 Dundee-Edinburgh 2J02 1230 Dundee-Edinburgh
27051 Edinburgh-Dundee 2J13 1415 Edinburgh-Dundee
27051 Dundee-Edinburgh 2J44 1630 Dundee-Edinburgh
27056 Edinburgh-Markinch 2J31 1815 Edinburgh-Dundee
27005 Markinch-Edinburgh 2J50 1830 Dundee-Edinburgh
27051 Edinburgh-Kirkcaldy 2J33 2015 Edinburgh-Dundee
27056 Kirkcaldy-Edinburgh 2J26 2030 Dundee-Edinburgh
47614+47619 Edinburgh-Carstairs 1C79 2345 Edinburgh-Carstairs

Sunday 1st June 1984 (day 8)

47562 Carstairs-Preston 1V32 2350 Glasgow C-Bristol TM
47610 Preston-Crewe 1V32 via Manchester V & Stockport
47421+47610 Crewe-Birmingham NS 1V32 via Rugeley & Walsall
45101 Birmingham NS-Bristol TM 1V32 via Kidderminster
 

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150108 14:51 Long Eaton-Derby
HST 15:23 Derby-York
47538 17:48 York-Darlington

Saturday 31st May 1997

91003 12:00 Edinburgh-Doncaster
142??? 15:15 Doncaster-Sheffield
43060+43??? 15:54 Sheffield-Derby
 

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67030 0640 Reading – Penzance via Bath Spa, Bristol Temple Meads
5029 “Nunney Castle” + 5051 “Earl Bathurst” 1410 Penzance – Exeter St Davids
67030 2054 Exeter St Davids – Bristol Temple Meads
67020 2232 Bristol Temple Meads – Reading via Bath Spa
I don’t recall why we swapped 67s at Bristol, but I wasn’t complaining.
 

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Saturday 31st May 2014 - Mid Norfolk Railway Steam Gala

90006 0706 Stratford - Norwich
170207 0938 Norwich - Wymondham
170207 1815 Wymondham - Norwich
90002 1900 Norwich - Stratford

The gala featured 3 of the West Coast Railway Company locos making a rare appearance on a preserved line - Jubilee 45699 Galatea, Royal Scot 46115 Scots Guardsman & 8F 48151.

I had 48151 from Wymondham to Dereham, a round trip behind 45699, 45699+46115 from Dereham to Wymondham and a round trip behind 46115. Red pen required for all three steam locomotives!
 

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SL 1W50 2238 (30/05) Weymouth Town - London Waterloo TPO (Eastleigh to Woking)
73140 SL 1B01 0245 London Waterloo - Bournemouth News (Woking to Eastleigh)
33114 EH 1T01 0428 Eastleigh - Portsmouth Harbour News detached from 1B01 (Eastleigh to Portsmouth Harbour)
33103 EH 2V56 0553 Portsmouth Harbour - Bristol Temple Meads (Eastleigh to Southampton Central)
47455 CD 1M20 0842 Poole - Liverpool Lime Street (Southampton Central to Winchester)
1*4VEP EMU 0842 London Waterloo - Bournemouth (Winchester to Southampton Central)
33105 EH 1E63 1140 Poole - Newcastle (Southampton Central to Basingstoke)
33119 EH 1O17 1104 Birmingham New Street - Weymouth Town (Basingstoke to Southampton Central)
47110 BS 1V28 1255 Weymouth Town - Cardiff Central (Southampton Central to Salisbury via Eastleigh)
50027 LA 1L94 1510 Salisbury - London Waterloo (Salisbury to London Waterloo)
45118 TO 1P13 1812 London Saint Pancras - Derby (London Saint Pancras to Bedford Midland)
45146 TO 1M64 1759 Sheffield - London Euston via Bletchley (Bedford Midland to London Euston)
73134 SL 1W55 2252 London Waterloo - Weymouth Town (London Waterloo to Eastleigh)

Tuesday 31 May 1988
SJ 1150 0140 Luleå - Kiruna (Luleå to Gällivare)
2* SJ Y1 DMU ---- Gällivare - Östersund Inlandsbanen (Gällivare - Östersund)
SJ 1295 1645 Trondheim - Stockholms Centralstation (Östersund to Stockholms Centralstation)
 

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91014 11:33 York-Doncaster
153??? 12:22 Doncaster-Sheffield
43073+43081 13:24 Sheffield-Derby
 

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Friday 1st June 2012

90016 1843 Euston - M Keynes
390026 1932 M Keynes - Euston

The Class 90 was clearly out of sorts on this run, very poor acceleration and lost time rapidly. Must have thought that she was doing the regular job of hauling a 75mph Freightliner!
 

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Saturday 2nd June 1984

47556 Peterborough-Newcastle (0005 Kings Cross-Edinburgh)
HST Newcastle-York (0646 Newcastle-Kings Cross)
45038 York-Blackpool North (0800 York-Blackpool)
45038 Blackpool North-York (1215 Blackpool-Newcastle)
HST York-Chesterfield (1606 York-Cardiff)
46035 Chesterfield-Leeds (1035 Penzance-Leeds)
45138 Leeds-Huddersfield (1750 Newcastle-Liverpool)
45103 Huddersfield-York (1732 Bangor-York)

Sunday 2nd June 1985

45121 St.Pancras-Sheffield (0005 St.Pancras-Sheffield)
37215 Sheffield-York (0853 Sheffield-Scarborough)
31207+31285 York-Leeds viaduct (1040 York-Carlisle) One of the 31s caught fire as usual. 47560 the last 400 yards into Leeds
45026 Leeds-Birmingham NS (1130 Leeds-Cardiff)
45138 Birmingham NS-York (1315 Weston Super Mare-York)
45138 York-Exeter St.Davids (2147 York-Plymouth)

Friday 2nd June 1989

150 Yeovil PM-Bristol TM (0908 Weymouth-Bristol)
47652 Bristol TM-Newton Abbot (0918 Manchester P-Plymouth)
HST Newton Abbot-Taunton (1405 Paignton-Paddington)
47471 Taunton-Penzance (1336 Paddington-Penzance)
47471 Penzance-Bristol TM (2145 Penzance-Paddington)

Sunday 2nd June 1991

47715 Bristol TM-Penzance (0005 Paddington-Penzance)
DMU Penzance-St.Ives
DMU St.Ives-St.Erth
HST St.Erth-Plymouth (0942 Penzance-Paddington)
47823 Plymouth-Newton Abbot (1200 Plymouth-Aberdeen)
HST Newton Abbot-Plymouth (1020 Paddington-Penzance)
47594 Plymouth-Bristol TM (1615 Plymouth-Liverpool)
HST Bristol TM-Taunton (1520 Paddington-Penzance)
47615 Taunton-Westbury (1409 Penzance-Paddington)
47709 Westbury-Bristol TM (1810 Weymouth-Cardiff)

Friday 2nd June 2000

47817 Newton Abbot-Taunton (1150 Plymouth-Liverpool)
47846 Taunton-Plymouth (1203 Paddington-Penzance)
47847 Plymouth-Newton Abbot (1555 Plymouth-Manchester)
47831 Newton Abbot-Penzance ( 0840 Glasgow Central-Penzance)
47846 Penzance-Bristol TM (2200 Penzance-Paddington)

Saturday 2nd June 2001

47813 Bristol TM-St.Erth (2350 Paddington-Penzance)
47811 St.Erth-Taunton (0800 Penzance-Paddington)
47750 Taunton-Dawlish (0810 Liverpool-Paignton)
47854 Dawlish-Bristol TM (1303 Paignton-Manchester)
47828 Bristol TM-Bristol Pwy (1535 Bristol-Edinburgh)
47747 Bristol Pwy-Paignton (0840 Glasgow Central-Paignton)
47747 Paignton-Bristol TM (1845 Paignton-Derby)
HST Bristol TM-Exeter St.D (1550 Newcastle-Plymouth)
 

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Saturday 2nd June 2012

90011 0930 Liverpool St - Ipswich
90012 1109 Ipswich - Liverpool St
317656+317885 1250 Liverpool St - Bishops Stortford
317502+317512 1358 Bishops Stortford- Liverpool St
UID 317+317889 1450 Liverpool St - Cheshunt
317885+317656 1521 Cheshunt - Liverpool St
 

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Saturday 2nd June 2001

47828 Oxford - Stafford (1M09 0600 Paddington - Manchester Piccadilly)
47701 Stafford - Bournemouth (1O09 0819 Manchester Piccadilly - Bournemouth)
47701 Bournemouth - Stafford (1M14 1418 Bournemouth - Manchester Piccadilly)
47750 Stafford - Oxford (1V98 1810 Liverpool Lime St - Paddington)
 

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Monday 02/06/03
A work trip to Crewe:
180 109 0659 Reading – Paddington
90009 0810 Euston – Crewe
87008 1410 Crewe – Euston
Option A: Go straight home.
Option B: More 87 mileage. I opted for B …
87013 1730 Euston – Crewe
87034 2010 Crewe - Euston

Friday 03/06/05
390 040 1310 Euston – Birmingham New Street
87019 1530 Birmingham New Street – Euston
90022 1722 Euston – Northampton
321 434 1858 Northampton – Rugby
87002 1946 Rugby – Crewe (Relief)
390 024 2106 Crewe – Euston
57604 2350 Paddington – Reading
 

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Saturday 3rd June 2006

170??? 11:31 Nottingham-Grantham
91126 12:16 Grantham-Doncaster
43119+43008 13:14 Doncaster-Darlington
 

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Friday 3rd June 2011

90048 1443 Euston - Birmingham NS
90048 1630 Birmingham NS - Euston
90048 1843 Euston - M Keynes
390039 1932 M Keynes - Euston
 

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WEDNESDAY 4th JUNE 1986:

To Hell and back!

3 617+3 623 Bodo-Fauske
3 617 Fauske-Stjordal
9262+9212 (DMU) Stjordal-Hell
Walk/hitch Hell-Stjordal
 

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I had moved to Rugby and worked at Euston, so there was one obvious loco-hauled commuting move, provided I was willing to get up early enough:
90018 0620 Rugby – Euston via Northampton
The return leg of the diagram was the 1651 Euston – Birmingham New St.
During June 2007 I did the 0620 on 6 occasions with 90018 and 3 with 90039.
The 1651 I did 3 times with 90018 and 4 times with 90039.
The same pattern carried on for several more months (which I shan’t bother to list), with the same loco usually lasting 2 – 3 weeks at a time.
 

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Required!
The Freightliner 90s were used by Anglia between 2002-2004 and by Virgin between 2010-2012. As a result I was able to clear all 11 locos there (I include 90050 here). They also appeared on the Sleepers a few years ago. Probably not much use if you're in the wrong part of the country though! I think you are Yorkshire or North East England?
 

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Saturday 4th June 2011

91102 0800 Kings X - Darlington
91104 1055 Darlington - York
91127 1555 York - Kings X
 

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THURSDAY 5th JUNE 1986:

9260+9210 (DMU) Stjordal-Trondheim
3 643 Trondheim-Kongsvinger
11 2091 Kongsvinger-Oslo Sentral
?? ???? Oslo Sentral-Goteborg Central (overnight sleeper - loco not recorded)


FRIDAY 5th JUNE 1987:

EMU Ryde St John's Road-Ryde Pierhead
Wightlink catamaran Ryde Pierhead-Portsmouth Harbour
EMU Portsmouth Harbour-Portsmouth & Southsea
50 049 Portsmouth & Southsea-Guildford
EMU Guildford-Portsmouth Harbour
Wightlink catamaran Portsmouth Harbour-Ryde Pierhead
EMU Ryde Pierhead-Ryde St John's Road
 
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Sunday 05/06/05
Another Highland sleeper trip, with an exceptionally unusual diversion in mind …
90017 2012 Euston – Stockport via Hixon
67019 2331 Stockport – Preston via Manchester Oxford Road, Salford Crescent, Atherton, Wigan North Western
This was load 16 plus dead class 90, and was probably the biggest passenger train via Daisy Hill in years. Heavily delayed at Wigan awaiting a possession being given up.
Monday 06/06/05
90017 0043 Preston – Edinburgh Waverley 142’ late.
37427 0450 Edinburgh Waverley – Fort William via Falkirk High, Cowlairs, Westerton. 120’ late.
My plan to do the steam from Fort William to Mallaig was scuppered by the late arrival, so I took a unit to Mallaig to salvage what I could from the day:
156 492 + 156 447 1210 Fort William – Mallaig
61264 1410 Mallaig – Fort William
37427 1955 Fort William – Edinburgh Waverley via Westerton, Cowlairs, Falkirk High
Tuesday 07/06/05
90034 0110 Edinburgh Waverley – Euston
40’ late due to emergency Single Line Working Lancaster to Preston.
 

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FRIDAY 6th JUNE 1986:

(Oslo Sentral)-Goteborg-Helsingborg -train ferry-Helsingor-Kobenhavn H. (Overnight sleeper-haulage not recorded)
Mz 1412 Kobenhavn H-Korsor
Train ferry "Prins Joachim" Korsor-Nyborg
Mz 1433 Nyborg-Fredericia
Mr 4005 Fredericia-Flensburg
218 165-9 Flensburg-Hamburg Altona
110 309-1 Hamburg Altona-Hamburg Hbf
103 160-8 Hamburg Hbf-Bremen Hbf
 

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SATURDAY 7th JUNE 1986:

103 205-1 Bremen Hbf-Wiesbaden Hbf via Osnabruck, Munster, Dortmund, Duisburg, Dusseldorf, Koeln, Koblenz & Mainz-Mombach
 

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Saturday 6 June 1981
47454 CD 1A04 0107 Holyhead - London Euston (Bangor to Crewe)
83008 LG 1M10 2150 (05/06) Glasgow Central - London Euston (Crewe to London Euston)
87010 WN 1H04 0650 London Euston - Manchester Piccadilly (London Euston to Crewe)
1*310 EMU 1005 Crewe to Crewe District Electric Depot Halt and 1015 Crewe District Electric Depot Halt to Crewe
(just when I thought I had screwed up and wasn't going to get back to London in time for a railtour in rolls....)
87026 WN Additional from unknown start to London Euston (Crewe to London Euston)
7 car SF DMU lashup RCTS East London No 5 Railtour 1325 from London Liverpool Street (made by the skin of my teeth in part to it leaving 7 minutes late)
the route included Victoria Park Jn to Poplar High Street and the Stratford Western curve


Monday 6 June 1988 (another epic day track bashing in France)
SNCF 22342 2017 (05/06) Nice - Saarbrücken (Lyon Perrache to Nancy)
via Dijon Yard, Dijon Avoiding line, Culmont Chalindrey avoiding line
1*SNCF Z11500 EMU 0636 Nancy - Réding (Nancy to Sarrebourg)
1*SNCF X4700 DMU 0753 Sarrebourg - Sarreguemines (Sarrebourg to Sarreguemines)
1*SNCF X4300 DMU 0907 Bitche - St Avold (Sarreguemines to St Avold)

SNCF 15015 0752 Frankfurt (Main) Hbf - Paris Est EC Victor Hugo (St Avold to Metz)
SNCF 15059 2005 (05/06) Ancona - Bruxelles Midi (Metz to Thionville)
SNCF 16675 1221 Thionville - Nancy (Thionville to Nancy)
1*SNCF X4300 DMU 1346 Nancy - Remiremont (Nancy to Remiremont)
1*SNCF X4300 DMU 1636 Remiremont - Cornimont (Remiremont to Cornimont)
1*SNCF X4300 DMU 1731 Cornimont - Remiremont (Cornimont to Remiremont)
1*SNCF X4300 DMU 1742 Épinal - Bussang (Remiremont to Bussang)
SNCF bus Bussang to Remiremont
(officially timed to depart before the arrival of the train but thankfully it hadn't departed. IIRC the train crew caught it)
1*SNCF X4300 DMU 2005 Remiremont - Épinal (Remiremont to Épinal)
SNCF 66415 2134 Épinal - Culmont Chalindrey (Épinal to Culmont Chalindrey)
followed by a shunt into the carriage sidings as I had fallen asleep prior to arriving at Culmont Chalindrey; I assume shunted in by 66415. I woke up after all the south bound trains had long departed towards Lyon. Oops!
 

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