Back in the day...

[D6130]

When there is engineering work at the southern end of the GEML the usual arrangement for rail replacement buses is Ingatestone to Newbury Park on the Central Line because it is a simple journey on the A12 and Ingatestone has a big car park with space for the buses. Lots of rail replacement buses at Shenfield would be a nightmare.

Thanks. That makes perfect sense.

 

[Bald Rick]

Fair enough....but why? I don't recall there ever having been an Ingatestone-Norwich timetabled service!

It’s done whenever there’s an all line block between Shenfield and London. Ingatestone is much better for the bus transfer.

 

[CW2]

Friday 4th May 2007

90034 1651 Euston - Birmingham New St
90034 1900 Birmingham New St - Euston

I lived in Rugby and worked in Euston at this time, so you might be able to guess my regular commuting trains were 0620 Rugby - Euston via Northampton and 1650 Euston - Birmingham (as far as Rugby).
That day I had 90034 in the morning, but wasn't on it in the evening for some reason.

 

[1971martin]

It’s done whenever there’s an all line block between Shenfield and London. Ingatestone is much better for the bus transfer.

Fair enough....but why? I don't recall there ever having been an Ingatestone-Norwich timetabled service!

As others have said, it has been that way for several years. Large car park at Ingatestone for the buses and step-free access to both platforms via the level crossing. Also a decent sized car park at Newbury Park.

 

[1971martin]

Tuesday 5th March 2015

90003 1000 Liverpool St - Norwich
90003 1230 Norwich - Ipswich
90007 1343 Ipswich - Liverpool St

and a few GE EMUs on the same day

379001+379030 1458 Liverpool St - Cheshunt
317514 1544 Cheshunt - Northumberland Park
317666 1623 Northumberland Park - Stratford
317666 1647 Stratford - Tottenham Hale
317885+317719 1701 Tottenham Hale - Liverpool St

 

[D6130]

WEDNESDAY 6th MAY 1981:

Another overnighter at my parents' place near Garelochhead....with the added bonus of a good old 27 on the front, at a time when the Syphons had all but taken over the WHL duties:

303 043 Hyndland-Glasgow QS LL (08 01 Milngavie-Airdrie)
303 057/028 Glasgow QS LL-Hyndland (16 52 Airdrie-Helensburgh Central)
303 010/068 Hyndland-Glasgow QS LL (17 30 Balloch Central-Springburn)
27 017 18 21 Glasgow QS HL-Garelochhead (to Oban. Consist: SC4180/4205/4223/4553/21205 Load 5 VB/SH)

 

[1971martin]

Sunday 6th May 1990 Bescot Depot open day

87035 0940 Euston - Nuneaton
47810 1129 Nuneaton - Birmingham NS
86224 1948 Birmingham NS - Euston

Friday 6th May 2005

After a session of Southern Region EMU bashing I made my way to Euston for -

90028 1722 Euston - Watford Jn

This was the 1722 Euston - Northampton, fast to Leighton Buzzard. However it came to a stand just beyond Watford at 1739 with announcement of 'air problem'. At 1751 reversed into the station. At 1810 was declared a failure and terminated. At 1853 departed ECS to Wembley behind 57309. Another failure with this 90 to follow in a few weeks.

321431+321424 1917 Watford Jn - Euston

 

[Harvester]

Wednesday 7th May 2008

A visit to the North Norfolk Railway, while on holiday in Norwich. The WD 2-10-0 No. 90775 was in traffic.

156??? 10:45 Norwich-Sheringham
90775 12:00 Sheringham-Holt
90775 12:45 Holt-Sheringham
156??? 13:45 Sheringham-Norwich

 

[Falcon1200]

Saturday 7th May 1983 - The Evening Star Railtour

50007 0810 Oxford-Paddington (to Didcot)
92220 0740 Paddington-Hampton Loade (Didcot-Dorridge)
25235/25236 ditto (Dorridge-Bewdley)
777 1510 Bewdley-Hampton Loade (to Arley)
5164 1453 Hampton Loade-Bewdley (from Arley)
5164 1610 Bewdley-Hampton Loade
7812 1648 Hampton Loade-Paddington (to Bewdley)
25202/25269 ditto (Bewdley-Kidderminster)
47508 ditto (Kidderminster-Worcester Shrub Hill)
DMU (Worcester Shrub Hill-Oxford)

This was, so far, my only main line steam railtour.

 

[D6130]

THURSDAY 7th MAY 1985:

47 593 Hove-East Croydon (1M50 08 50 Hove to Manchester Piccadilly. Consist: W92043/5905/13564/6615/5703/6136/5704/17058 Load 8 AB/EH)
47 611 East Croydon-Gatwick Airport (1O62, 06 01 from Derby. Consist: M92227/13521/6529/5432/5532/5367/5427/5536/5541 Load 9 AB/EH)
47 611 Gatwick Airport-East Croydon (1M07, 13 22 to Manchester Piccadilly. Consist as above in reverse order)
47 623 East Croydon-Gatwick Airport (1O74, 09 58 from Manchester Picc. Consist: M92022/5524/13536/5522/5346/5366/5582/6524 Load 8 AB/EH)

Altered workings were still in force in connection with the Brighton remodelling and resignalling scheme being in full swing.

 

[D1537]

FRIDAY 8 MAY 1987
47569 York -Birmingham NS 1O09
47632 Birmingham NS - Banbury 1O09
47589 Banbury - Crewe 1M14
47422 Crewe - Banbury 1O12

we were going south for 1M63, but chap at Banbury informed us about ...

47143 Banbury - Birmingham NS 1M40

 

[1971martin]

Friday 7th May 1993

91013 0730 Kings X - Doncaster
91002 1256 Doncaster - Leeds
321903 1421 Leeds - Doncaster
91016 1737 Doncaster - Kings X

 

[Harvester]

Sunday 8th May 1988

Loco haulage ended with the May 1988 timetable change on the Nottingham to Norwich service. Class 156 units then took over.

150124 Nottingham-Grantham
31468 15:47 Grantham-Nottingham (13:10 Norwich-Sheffield)

 

[NorthWestRover]

Saturday 8th May 1982

I posted most of this a year ago, but I've now got the 87 and the details of the services I was on. Not a bad day, well afternoon and evening really.

87022 WBQ to Crewe, 1A40 09.35 Carlisle to Euston
85012 Crewe to Birmingham NS, 1V41 11.20 Liverpool to Paddington
50036 Birmingham NS to Leamington Spa, 1V41 11.20 Liverpool to Paddington
50049 Leamington Spa to Banbury, 1V48 14.38 Birmingham to Paddington
50026 Banbury to Birmingham NS, 1M15 15.50 Paddington to Birmingham
50032 Birmingham NS to Leamington Spa, 1V64 16.23 Manchester to Paddington
50035 Leamington Spa to Birmingham NS, 1M16 17.41 Paddington to Birmingham
One or two Cans back to WBQ

 

[xotGD]

Class 156 units then took over.

Progress? Not really.

50035 Leamington Spa to Birmingham NS, 1M16 17.41 Paddington to Birmingham

Machine!

 

[NorthWestRover]

Machine

I only had it twice. This was the day I scored it. I then had it from Oxford to Paddington in September 1989 when I was fleeing the country for a year.

 

[xotGD]

I only had it twice. This was the day I scored it. I then had it from Oxford to Paddington in September 1989 when I was fleeing the country for a year.

As well as having 35 many times for haulage it was the first Hoover I saw. Looking out of our front window one dinnertime, there it was passing Bensham on the Doncaster Works test train. Large logo livery meant that with binoculars I could read the number. I sighted 50040 and 50045 in the same manner.

 

[NorthWestRover]

Monday 9th May 1983

40068 WBQ to Man Vic, 1J39 16.52 Bangor to Manchester

 

[Harvester]

Tuesday 10th May 1983

A trip to Swindon Works. Almost 150 withdrawn locos of classes 08, 25, 40, 45 and 46 dumped in the North sidings, and around the Works and Scrapyard. The only overhauls being undertaken in A Shop were to a dozen Class 08s and King 6000.

47185 10:12 Derby-Birmingham NS
50016 11:15 Birmingham NS-Cheltenham
DMU 12:37 Cheltenham-Swindon
43037+43028 16:09 Swindon-Didcot
DMU 16:29 Didcot-Oxford
47549 17:12 Oxford-Birmingham NS
43177+43178 18:50 Birmingham NS-Derby

 

[D6130]

A wee bit of a catch-up after my overland journey to Italy (sorry to have to tell you that it's 25-27 degrees here, with wall-to-wall sunshine and blue sky!):


WEDNESDAY 8th MAY 1985:

47 512 Hove-East Croydon (1M50, 08 50 to Manchester Piccadilly. Consist: W92077/5886/5853/13597/6600/5877/5865/6063/17107 Load 9 AB/EH)
47 524 East Croydon-Gatwick Airport (1O62, 06 01 from Derby. Consist: M92022/5524/13536/5522/5346/5366/5582/6524 Load 8 AB/EH)
47 524 Gatwick Airport-East Croydon (1M07, 13 22 to Manchester Piccadilly: Consist as above in reverse order)
47 501 East Croydon-Gatwick Airport (1O74, 09 58 from Manchester Piccadilly. Consist: M92172/6526/5372/5368/13527/5403/5502/5505/5415 Load 9 AB/EH)


THURSDAY 9th MAY 1985:

47 446 Hove-East Croydon (1M50, 08 50 to Manchester Piccadilly. Consist: W92043/5905/5850/13564/6615/5703/6136/5704/17058 Load 9 AB/EH)
47 560 East Croydon-Gatwick Airport (1O62, 06 01 from Derby. Consist: M92172/6526/5372/5368/13527/5403/5502/5505/5415 Load 9 AB/EH)
47 560 Gatwick Airport-East Croydon (1M07, 13 22 to Manchester Piccadilly. Consist as above in reverse order)
47 524 East Croydon-Gatwick Airport (1O74, 09 58 from Manchester Piccadilly. Consist: M92022/5524/13536/5522/5346/5366/5582/6524/5356 Load 9 AB/EH)


WEDNESDAY 10th MAY 1978:

Another after-work Crompton bash:

7819/7830/7420 Petersfield-Waterloo (06 23 from Portsmouth Harbour)
7417/7409 08 08 Waterloo-Wimbledon (to Woking)
5125/7809 Wimbledon-Waterloo (17 30 from Guildford via Woking)
33 103 19 00 Waterloo-Woking (to Exeter SD. Consist: W5363/3087/1772/14069/14080/5457/5489/5471/5482 Load 9 AB/EH)
7809/5125 Woking-Guildford (18 52 from Waterloo)
7747/7056 Guildford-Petersfield (19 20 Waterloo-Portsmouth Harbour)


SUNDAY 10th MAY 1981:

85 008 Euston-Motherwell (22 35 to Perth. Consist: M34665/25881/26003/15652/25597/2830/2623/2010/2822/81181 Load 10 VB/DH)


FRIDAY 10th MAY 1985:

47 432 Hove-East Croydon (1M50, 08 50 to Manchester Piccadilly. Consist: W92077/5886/5853/13597/6600/5877/5865/6063/17107 Load 9 AB/EH)
47 434 East Croydon-Gatwick Airport (1O62, 06 01 from Derby. Consist: M92022/5524/13536/5522/5346/5366/5582/6524/5356 Load 9 AB/EH)
47 434 Gatwick Airport-East Croydon (1M07, 13 22 to Manchester Piccadilly. Consist as above in reverse order)
47 560 East Croydon-Gatwick Airport (1O74, 09 58 from Manchester Piccadilly. Consist: M92172/6526/5372/5368/13527/5403/5502/5505/5415
Load 9 AB/EH)

 

[Harvester]

Saturday 13th May 1978

Travelled on the “Border Venturer“ railtour to Carlisle with 92220 Evening Star working northbound over Ais Gill. Our train ran in conjunction with another charter, the “Western Border Venturer“ on which 92220 worked back to Leeds.

45032 Derby-Leeds
92220 Leeds-Carlisle
47474 Carlisle-Leeds
45032?? Leeds-Derby (failed to log the loco, but most likely 45032 again)

The well known railway photographer Eric Treacy died at Appleby station on this day, while waiting to photograph 92220.

 

[NorthWestRover]

Thursday 13th May 1982

My antipenultimate entry of my moves on this thread.

40008 Wigan NW to WBQ - I don't know what service this was on. Neither the motherlist nor RailGen can help. An unusual place for a midweek 40 working.
40029 Colwyn Bay to WBQ, 1J31 19.25 Bangor to Man Vic. That is a bit more familiar, lol.

 

[D6130]

Here's one I missed out yesterday:

FRIDAY 12th MAY 1978:

7710/7814/7820 Petersfield-Waterloo (06 23 from Portsmouth Harbour)
7412/7377 08 08 Waterloo-Wimbledon (to Woking)
4633/4627 Wimbledon-Waterloo (17 15 from Horsham)
33 031 19 00 Waterloo-Woking (to Exeter SD. Consist: W5363/3087/1772/14069/14069/5457/5489/5471/5482 Load 9 AB/EH)
7836/7056 Woking-Petersfield (19 20 Waterloo-Portsmouth Harbour)



SATURDAY 13th MAY 1978:

7057/7419 Petersfield-Havant (08 20 Waterloo-Portsmouth Harbour)
33 006+33 037 Havant-Fareham (08 53 Brighton-Exeter SD. Consist: S4074/3759/3988/34643/3923/4076/35010/13399/1872/4059/4058/4389 Load 12
AB/EH)
1124 Fareham-Portsmouth & Southsea (09 49 from Southampton)
7770 Portsmouth & Southsea-Havant (20 13 Portsmouth Harbour-Brighton)
7419/7057 Havant-Petersfield (20 29 Portsmouth Harbour-Waterloo)


FRIDAY 13th MAY 1983:

86 257 Euston-Crewe (10 00 to Holyhead. Consist: M9506/5908/5995/6169/6062/6058/1667/3352/3423/3168/81450 Load 11 AB/EH)
47 456 Crewe-Holyhead (10 00 from Euston. Consist as above)
MV "St Columba" 15 00 Holyhead-Dun Laoghaire
005 Dun Laoghaire-Bray (18 20 Dublin Connolly-Rosslare Harbour)
003 Bray-Dublin Pearse (17 45 Rosslare Harbour-Dublin Connolly)


MONDAY 13th MAY 1985:

73 117 4B66, 17 54 Brighton-London Bridge (via Quarry) parcels & mail. (Consist: M84024/S268/260/93724/93804 Load 5 VB)

 

[xotGD]

73 117 4B66, 17 54 Brighton-London Bridge (via Quarry) parcels & mail.

I assume that you were working the train, rather than hiding in a mail bag!

 

[D6130]

I assume that you were working the train, rather than hiding in a mail bag!

You assume correctly!

 

[NorthWestRover]

Saturday 14th May 1983

A year ago, I said I didn't know the 86 or 87 that got in the morning. I now know it was

87001 WBQ to Wolves

Then followed by this Goyle fest...

This set of moves is from my class listings and so I do not know the 86/87 that got me from Warrington to Birmingham, then...

31421 Birmingham NS to Leicester
31409 Leicester to Birmingham NS
31246 Birmingham NS to Leicester
31419 Leicester to Nuneaton
31409 Nuneaton to Melton Mowbray
31414 Melton Mowbray to Nuneaton
31279 Nuneaton to Leicester
31421 Leicester to Birmingham NS
85032 Birmingham NS to Crewe
86/87 back to WBQ

 

[Falcon1200]

Saturday 14th May 1983
50021 1930 Oxford-Paddington
86001 2215 Euston-Glasgow C (to Carlisle)

 

[D6130]

TUESDAY 14th MAY 1985:

73 121 4B66, 17 54 Brighton-London Bridge (via Quarry) parcels & mail. (Consist: M84024/S268/260/93724/93804/251 Load 6 VB)

 

[barrowjack]

Saturday 14th May 1988.
As far as I can remember this was the last day of Class 31 hauled services on the Liverpool to Sheffield route, so I set out to do some. Obviously again have gone for quantity, the bonus being having the "Roarer" twice. There must have been a reason for doing the 'duff' back from Stockport on the first run

108xxx​	Barrow In Furness	Lancaster
85028​	Lancaster	Preston
150xxx​	Preston	Manchester Victoria
31453​	Manchester Piccadilly	Stockport
47560​	Stockport	Manchester Piccadilly
31431​	Manchester Piccadilly	Manchester Oxford Road
31452​	Manchester Oxford Road	Stockport
31439​	Stockport	Manchester Oxford Road
31448​	Manchester Oxford Road	Manchester Piccadilly
150xxx​	Manchester Victoria	Preston
85028​	Preston	Lancaster
108xxx​	Lancaster	Barrow In Furness

Little did I know then that not long after 31 hauled trains would be a common site on my local line!

 

[Falcon1200]

A day late with this;
Saturday 13th May 1989
47611 1800 Oxford-Paddington
1532 2040 Victoria-Newhaven Harbour
Ship (which a friend unkindly called a Sealink Tub) Newhaven-Dieppe

Which trip continued;
Sunday 14th May 1989
67440 0438 Dieppe Maritime-Paris St Lazare
BB7261 0751 Paris Austerlitz-La Rochelle (to Poitiers)
Z7327 1114 Poitiers-Bordeaux (to Angouleme)
CC6537 0930 Paris Austerlitz-Hendaye (Angouleme-Bordeaux)
BB9259 1438 Bordeaux-Marseilles (to Toulouse)