Sultan1056
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Thursday 26th August 1976
IIRC I was travelling on a 3D ticket, this allowed 3 day return trips to a selection of destinations within a 7 day period. Day one’s destination, Carlisle.
DMU York-Leeds (0703 Scarborough-Leeds)
DMU Leeds-Manchester Vic (0740 Hull-Liverpool LS)
40090 Manchester Vic-Warrington BQ (1020 Manchester Vic-Holyhead)
87019 Warrington BQ-Carlisle (1005 Birmingham NS-Glasgow C)
45036 Carlisle-Leeds (1610 Glasgow C-Nottingham)
DMU Leeds-York (1957 Manchester Vic-York)
Saturday 26th August 1978
I was travelling with a friend and the plan was to take the 0114 Milford Haven as far as Carmarthen and then return to Swansea by DMU. I believe we must have both been asleep when we arrived at Carmarthen where we had to quickly gather our possessions before getting off the train. As 37185 was released from the train giving way to 37190 I nipped off to the loo. I was only gone a couple of minutes and when I returned I walked up to the front of the train to watch 37190 couple up. There was no sign of my friend, I assumed he’d wandered down to the other end of the platform to watch the other 37. The train departed and there was still no sign of my friend other than his bag sat next to mine on a bench. I realised that he must have mistakenly got back onto the train and I was now left with his bag, wallet and ticket! I quickly worked out that he couldn’t get back to Carmarthen until about 8-30 on the first train from Milford, so I took the DMU to Llanelli to pick up the sleeper service from Paddington. I took this train to Whitland where I found my very relieved friend. He couldn’t remember getting back on the train at Carmarthen and the guard told him to leave the train at Whitland when he couldn’t produce a ticket or the means to purchase one. We worked our way to London and then down the MML to Derby. Here we took 25124 to Nottingham expecting to return with a pair of 25s on the Yarmouth-Derby. Not today, problems with the 25s so unfortunately 46004 did the honours.
37183 Bristol TM-Swansea (0114 Bristol TM-Milford Haven)
37185 Swansea-Carmarthen (0114 Bristol TM-Milford Haven)
DMU Carmarthen-Llanelli (0525 Carmarthen-Swansea)
37176 Llanelli-Whitland J (0050 Paddington-Milford Haven)
37190 Whitland J-Swansea (0725 Milford Haven-Swansea)
43040+43041 Swansea-Cardiff C (0942 Swansea-Paddington)
47343 Cardiff C-Newport (0910 Tenby-York)
43032+43033 Newport-Paddington (1042 Swansea-Paddington)
45135 St Pancras-Nottingham (1401 St Pancras-Sheffield)
M50692+50701 Nottingham-Derby (1615 Nottingham-Derby)
25124 Derby-Nottingham (1302 Llandudno-Nottingham)
46004 Nottingham-Derby (1415 Yarmouth-Derby)
46029 Derby-Sheffield (1505 Paignton-Leeds)
E50268+50751 Sheffield-Doncaster (1945 Manchester Pic-Hull)
E51204 Doncaster-York (2205 Doncaster-York)
Sunday 26th August 1979
In the days before the Humber Bridge there was a ferry service linking Hull to New Holland. This was the first of several trips for me across the Humber. However it wasn’t without potential problems as the ferry grounded itself on a sandbank. After several minutes of the boat thrashing around in the water and going nowhere I was beginning to think that I was going to miss out with 37040 on a Cleethorpes-Sheffield service. Fortunately the tide soon shifted the boat free and I was able to continue my journey. The drama didn’t finish there because the driver of 37040 took a wrong signal at Doncaster which routed the train into one of the bay platforms. I didn’t hang around to see how this issue was resolved because I headed off back home to York.
55008 York-Doncaster (1200 Newcastle-Kings Cross) Relief
55009 Doncaster-Hull (1205 Kings Cross-Hull)
Farringford 1610 Hull Corporation Pier-New Holland Pier
E51286 1642 New Holland Pier-Cleethorpes
47224 Cleethorpes-Grimsby Town (1736 Cleethorpes-Kings Cross)
37040 Grimsby Town-Doncaster (1757 Cleethorpes-Sheffield)
43080+43081 Doncaster-York (1800 Kings Cross-Newcastle)
Tuesday 26th August 1980
55018 York-Selby (1955 York-Kings Cross)
47411 Selby-York (1805 Kings Cross-York)
IIRC I was travelling on a 3D ticket, this allowed 3 day return trips to a selection of destinations within a 7 day period. Day one’s destination, Carlisle.
DMU York-Leeds (0703 Scarborough-Leeds)
DMU Leeds-Manchester Vic (0740 Hull-Liverpool LS)
40090 Manchester Vic-Warrington BQ (1020 Manchester Vic-Holyhead)
87019 Warrington BQ-Carlisle (1005 Birmingham NS-Glasgow C)
45036 Carlisle-Leeds (1610 Glasgow C-Nottingham)
DMU Leeds-York (1957 Manchester Vic-York)
Saturday 26th August 1978
I was travelling with a friend and the plan was to take the 0114 Milford Haven as far as Carmarthen and then return to Swansea by DMU. I believe we must have both been asleep when we arrived at Carmarthen where we had to quickly gather our possessions before getting off the train. As 37185 was released from the train giving way to 37190 I nipped off to the loo. I was only gone a couple of minutes and when I returned I walked up to the front of the train to watch 37190 couple up. There was no sign of my friend, I assumed he’d wandered down to the other end of the platform to watch the other 37. The train departed and there was still no sign of my friend other than his bag sat next to mine on a bench. I realised that he must have mistakenly got back onto the train and I was now left with his bag, wallet and ticket! I quickly worked out that he couldn’t get back to Carmarthen until about 8-30 on the first train from Milford, so I took the DMU to Llanelli to pick up the sleeper service from Paddington. I took this train to Whitland where I found my very relieved friend. He couldn’t remember getting back on the train at Carmarthen and the guard told him to leave the train at Whitland when he couldn’t produce a ticket or the means to purchase one. We worked our way to London and then down the MML to Derby. Here we took 25124 to Nottingham expecting to return with a pair of 25s on the Yarmouth-Derby. Not today, problems with the 25s so unfortunately 46004 did the honours.
37183 Bristol TM-Swansea (0114 Bristol TM-Milford Haven)
37185 Swansea-Carmarthen (0114 Bristol TM-Milford Haven)
DMU Carmarthen-Llanelli (0525 Carmarthen-Swansea)
37176 Llanelli-Whitland J (0050 Paddington-Milford Haven)
37190 Whitland J-Swansea (0725 Milford Haven-Swansea)
43040+43041 Swansea-Cardiff C (0942 Swansea-Paddington)
47343 Cardiff C-Newport (0910 Tenby-York)
43032+43033 Newport-Paddington (1042 Swansea-Paddington)
45135 St Pancras-Nottingham (1401 St Pancras-Sheffield)
M50692+50701 Nottingham-Derby (1615 Nottingham-Derby)
25124 Derby-Nottingham (1302 Llandudno-Nottingham)
46004 Nottingham-Derby (1415 Yarmouth-Derby)
46029 Derby-Sheffield (1505 Paignton-Leeds)
E50268+50751 Sheffield-Doncaster (1945 Manchester Pic-Hull)
E51204 Doncaster-York (2205 Doncaster-York)
Sunday 26th August 1979
In the days before the Humber Bridge there was a ferry service linking Hull to New Holland. This was the first of several trips for me across the Humber. However it wasn’t without potential problems as the ferry grounded itself on a sandbank. After several minutes of the boat thrashing around in the water and going nowhere I was beginning to think that I was going to miss out with 37040 on a Cleethorpes-Sheffield service. Fortunately the tide soon shifted the boat free and I was able to continue my journey. The drama didn’t finish there because the driver of 37040 took a wrong signal at Doncaster which routed the train into one of the bay platforms. I didn’t hang around to see how this issue was resolved because I headed off back home to York.
55008 York-Doncaster (1200 Newcastle-Kings Cross) Relief
55009 Doncaster-Hull (1205 Kings Cross-Hull)
Farringford 1610 Hull Corporation Pier-New Holland Pier
E51286 1642 New Holland Pier-Cleethorpes
47224 Cleethorpes-Grimsby Town (1736 Cleethorpes-Kings Cross)
37040 Grimsby Town-Doncaster (1757 Cleethorpes-Sheffield)
43080+43081 Doncaster-York (1800 Kings Cross-Newcastle)
Tuesday 26th August 1980
55018 York-Selby (1955 York-Kings Cross)
47411 Selby-York (1805 Kings Cross-York)
