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Saturday 8th February 2014


90010 1300 Norwich - Colchester

90010 1530 Liverpool St - Ipswich


Monday 8th February 2016


90010 1209 Ipswich - Norwich

You may well have encountered someone I know on these particular moves, who rated 90010 as his 'machine' and had, last I heard, well over a quarter of a million miles behind it.
 
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Friday 8th February 1991 - Heavy snow in East Kent (& much of the rest of the country I believe!)

1557+3172 0611 Folkestone W - Dover Priory
1528+3209 0633 Dover Priory - Canterbury East (4Cep+4Cap)
5617+5616 1700 Canterbury East - Dover Priory (8EPB)
1588+73133 1750 Dover Priory - Folkestone W (Class 73 on Diesel, both working, lots of arcing!)
Excellent. EPBs made it down the Arun Valley to Bognor Regis during that snowy period.
 

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Tuesday 9th February 1993

47712 0835 Waterloo - Exeter St Davids
47712 1422 Exeter St Davids - Waterloo

Tuesday 9th February 2010

43033+43171 1015 Paddington - Bristol P
220032 1158 Bristol P - Bristol TM
57309+(57305) 1221 Bristol TM - Cardiff C
57305+(57309) 1400 Cardiff C - Bristol TM
67006+(67005) 1521 Bristol TM - Cardiff C
67005+(67006) 1700 Cardiff C - Filton Abbey Wood
150234 1748 Filton Abbey Wood - Bristol P
43002+43012 1801 Bristol P - Paddington

Saturday 9th February 2013

90010 1200 Liverpool St - Norwich
90015 1400 Norwich - Liverpool St
90013 1600 Liverpool St - Colchester
90004 1703 Colchester - Liverpool St

Monday 9th February 2015

90007 1030 Liverpool St - Manningtree
90002 1144 Manningtree - Norwich
90007 1300 Norwich - Ipswich
360115 1452 Ipswich - Colchester
90006 1533 Colchester - Liverpool St
68015 1750 Marylebone - Banbury (first haulage from this class)
168107 1932 Banbury - Marylebone

Tuesday 9th February 2016

90015 1100 Liverpool St - Ipswich
90008 1243 Ipswich - Colchester
90002 1323 Colchester - Ipswich
90015 1409 Ipswich - Liverpool St
90001 1530 Liverpool St - Chelmsford
90002 1621 Chelmsford - Liverpool St
 

1971martin

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You may well have encountered someone I know on these particular moves, who rated 90010 as his 'machine' and had, last I heard, well over a quarter of a million miles behind it.
90010 is my highest mileage class 90, though with just over 5000 miles, rather pathetic in comparison to your friend!

Of note I did have 90010 from Liverpool Street to Cambridge on one occasion before being dragged to Norwich by a class 47 during the Ipswich Tunnel blockade in Summer 2004.
 

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Excellent. EPBs made it down the Arun Valley to Bognor Regis during that snowy period.
Certainly a bit more interesting than usual. At that time I did not work weekends so I have no more snow stuff until the following Monday. I suppose I could have gone out but would have run the risk of getting stuck somewhere!
 

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Here’s my winter weekend.

Saturday 09th February 1991
43115 0600 Newcastle-London Kings Cross 1A03 from Retford to London Kings Cross 138m 49ch
+ 43097
Above 62 late.
TUBE Northern Line-Kennington from London Euston (d1135) to London Charing Cross 01m 46ch
1531 1150 London Charing Cross-Hastings from London Charing Cross to Orpington 13m 65ch
+ 1507
3475 1250 London Charing Cross-Hastings from Orpington to Tonbridge 15m 61ch
+ 3474
1527 1356 London Charing-Cross Ashford from Tonbridge to Ashford 26m 43ch
+ 1579
+ 73110 Pushing on Rear
73110 1533 Ashford-London Charing Cross from Ashford to Hither Green 48m 73ch
+ 1579 Via Tonbridge
+ 1527
Loco 73110 on Electric & Diesel Power
5482 1635 Orpington-London Charing Cross from Hither Green to London Bridge 05m 27ch
+ 5451
5487 1920 London Bridge-Dartford from London Bridge to Kidbrooke 06m 05ch
+ 5145
+ 56043 Pushing on Rear
73128 1950 London Bridge-Dartford from Kidbrooke to Eltham 01m 17ch
Loco 73128 Powering on Diesel
56043 2050 Dartford-London Bridge from Eltham to London Bridge 07m 22ch
+ 5145
+ 5487
TUBE Northern Line-Kennington from London Bridge (d2154) to Kennington 01m 41ch
TUBE Northern Line-High Barnet from Kennington (d2203) to London Euston 03m 29ch
Not much choice of overnights, just the one each way.
87035 2155 London Euston-Glasgow Central 1Z51 from London Euston to Crewe 158m 00ch

Sunday 10th February 1991
86212 2210 Glasgow Central-London Euston 1Z50 from Crewe (d0400) to London Euston 158m 00ch
TUBE Northern Line-Kennington from London Euston (d0743) to London Charing Cross 01m 46ch
47491 0800 London Charing-Cross Ashford from London Charing Cross to Orpington P4 13m 72ch
Via Lewisham
1527 0830 London Charing-Cross Ashford from Orpington to Tonbridge 15m 61ch
+ 1579
+ 73110 Pushing on Rear
1533 0904 Ashford-London Charing Cross from Tonbridge to London Charing Cross 29m 46ch
+ 1501
1501 1030 London Charing Cross-Ashford from London Charing Cross to London Bridge 01m 69ch
+ 1533
Taxi London Bridge-London Victoria from London Bridge to London Victoria 5.790 Km
33050 1103 London Victoria-Faversham from London Victoria to Faversham P4 51m 77ch
Above 62 late.
33050 1256 Faversham-London Victoria from Faversham to Sittingbourne 07m 18ch
Above 70 late.
33023 1203 London Victoria-Faversham from Sittingbourne to Teynham 03m 15ch
Above 133 late.
33042 1456 Faversham-London Victoria from Teynham to Newington 06m 30ch
Above 33 late.
1521 1303 London Victoria-Faversham from Newington to Faversham 10m 33ch
+ 1558
+ 33033 Pushing on Rear
Above 103 late.
1610 1700 Faversham-Dover Western Docks from Faversham to Dover Western Docks 26m 33ch
+ 1519
+ 33207 Pushing on Rear
Above 22 late.
33207 1854 Dover Western Docks-Faversham from Dover Western Docks to Faversham 26m 33ch
+ 1519
+ 1610
33023 1956 Faversham-London Victoria from Faversham to London Victoria 51m 77ch
+ 9001
+ 1526
+ 5623
Above 15 late.
Gen was out that 56001 was heading to the blocks.
5623 2203 London Victoria-Faversham from London Victoria to Bromley South 10m 71ch
+ 1526
+ 9001
+ 33033 Pushing on Rear
Above 15 late.

Monday 11th February 1991
56001 2156 Faversham-London Victoria from Bromley South to London Victoria P2 10m 71ch
Units = 1537 & 1559
Above 53 late.
Sociable guard who let everyone do the overnight move with or without tickets.
56001 0031 London Victoria-Faversham from London Victoria-Faversham 51m 77ch
Units = 1537 & 1559
Staff only train from Swanley.
Above 25 late.
56001 0335 Faversham-London Victoria from Faversham to London Victoria 51m 77ch
Units = 1537 & 1559
Staff only train to Swanley.
Above 25 late.
IIRC, the guard had obtained a TOPS list during the night and 56056 was down to work.
Not much chance of getting into work at York so I took the day off.
1S12 was starting at Doncaster anyhow.
33033 0520 London Victoria-Faversham from London Victoria to Bromley South 12m 00ch
Via Catford
Above 35 late.
56056 0530 Faversham-London Victoria from Bromley South to London Victoria P2 12m 0ch
Via Catford
Above 30 late.
1558 0850 London Victoria-Faversham from London Victoria to Bromley South 10m 71ch
+ 1521
+ 33002 Pushing on Rear
47206 0945 Ashford-London Victoria from Bromley South to London Victoria P1 10m 71ch
33021 1120 London Victoria-Ashford from London Victoria to Bromley South 10m 71ch
+ 1584
73101 1050 Faversham-London Victoria from Bromley South to London Victoria 10m 71ch
+ 9001
+ 1526
+ 5623
Went to Waterloo to see what was out there.(Not much)
TUBE Circle Line-Anti-Clockwise from London Victoria (d1221) to Embankment 01m 28ch
TUBE Piccadilly Line-Cockfosters from Embankment (d1230) to London Waterloo 00m 35ch
1204 1405 London Waterloo-Southampton Central from London Waterloo to Clapham Junction 03m 74ch
3147 1349 East Grinstead-London Victoria from Clapham Junction to London Victoria 02m 57ch
+ 3088
3500 1520 London Victoria-Ashford from London Victoria to Bromley South 10m 71ch
+ 73119 Pushing on Rear
5520 1547 Orpington-London Victoria from Bromley South to London Victoria 10m 71ch
+ 5525
5433 1630 London Victoria-West Sutton from London Victoria to Clapham Junction 02m 57ch
+ 6302
5736 1611 Shepperton-London Waterloo from Clapham Junction to London Waterloo 03m 74ch
+ 5906
TUBE Northern Line-Edgware from London Waterloo (d1729) to Leicester Square 00m 72ch
TUBE Piccadilly Line-Cockfosters from Leicester Square (d1738) to London Kings Cross 01m 44ch
91009 1736 London Kings Cross-Peterborough 1P26 from London Kings Cross to Peterborough 76m 29ch
Above 15 late.
91019 1830 London Kings Cross-Leeds 1D43 from Peterborough to Retford 62m 20ch
Above 45 late.
 

1971martin

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Saturday 10th February 1990

86259 0930 Liverpool St - Norwich
86215 1300 Norwich - Ipswich
86227 1443 Ipswich - Colchester
86246 1559 Colchester - Liverpool St

Wednesday 10th February 1993

91008 0730 Kings X - Newcastle
91030 1048 Newcastle - Glasgow C
156493 1320 Glasgow C - Uddingston
314205 1335 Uddingston - Motherwell
314201 1417 Motherwell - Glasgow C
90008 1505 Glasgow C - Euston

Tuesday 10th February 1998

87005 0800 Euston - Milton Keynes
90014 0909 Milton Keynes - Motherwell
101688 1339 Motherwell - Cumbernauld
101688 1408 Cumbernauld - Motherwell
314208 1450 Motherwell - Newton (via Hamilton)
303019 1510 Newton - Glasgow C (via Maxwell Park)
91028 1600 Glasgow C - Kings X

Saturday 10th February 2001 - The Southampton Docker - Hertfordshire Railtours

73108 1225 Victoria - Southampton Eastern Docks
73108 1759 Southampton Eastern Docks - Woking
Where it all fell apart. Full details at sixbellsjunction.co.uk

Others who did this tour will know all about it. Needless to say little information was available as to what would happen with this train.

Here's what I did to get home bearing in mind that nothing controlled by Wimbledon ASC was available.

South West Trains ran a special at 2120 to Twickenham using 4Cep 1512. From there a bus was taken to Richmond. From there the District line was used to Victoria. Connex conveyed me to Ashford on the 2348 using 4Vep 3806. From where a long-suffering father took me home in his Vauxhall Astra.

Tuesday 10th February 2015

90001 1200 Liverpool St - Manningtree
379013 1300 Manningtree - Harwich Town (Battery)
379013 1328 Harwich Town - Manningtree (AC)
360103 1412 Manningtree - Ipswich
90001 1509 Ipswich - Liverpool St
90006 1630 Liverpool St - Colchester
90008 1730 Colchester - Liverpool St
 

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Sunday 11th February 1990

156422 15:15 Nottingham-Chesterfield
43122+43043 16:36 Chesterfield-Derby
150119 17:21 Derby-Nottingham
 

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Sat 11/02/06 – dragging over the S&C

221 115 0708 Reading – Birmingham International
390 053 0841 Birmingham International – Preston
57301 (+390053 dead) 1055 Preston – Carlisle via Blackburn, S&C
390 053 1353 Carlisle – Glasgow Central
I then did some track bashing on EMUs around the Glasgow area before doing the 1820 from Queen Street to Oban with three 156s, running 90 minutes late. The reason for this trip to Oban will become apparent tomorrow …
 

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Saturday 11th February 1989 - Young Persons Railcard promotion

90012 0920 Euston - Crewe (first ever haulage from Class 90)
37407 1203 Crewe - Shrewsbury
156472 1315 Shrewsbury - Crewe
86102 1428 Crewe - Liverpool LS
37428 1714 Liverpool LS - Runcorn
86213 1745 Runcorn - Crewe
87010 1913 Crewe - Euston

Monday 11th February 1991 - Heavy Snow in East Kent

1574+1504 1206 Folkestone W - Dover Priory
33063+3179+3164 1247 Dover Priory - Canterbury East
3184+1525+33063 1800 Canterbury East - Dover Priory
1508+1513 1905 Dover Priory - Folkestone W

Saturday 11th February 2006

90013 0930 Liverpool St - Ipswich
90011 1052 Ipswich - Liverpool St
90011 1230 Liverpool St - Ipswich
90001 1352 Ipswich - Liverpool St
357210 1519 Liverpool St - Southend Central
357203 1650 Southend Central - Liverpool St
 
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Saturday 12/02/05
43175 + 43182 0858 Reading – Paddington
87002 1000 Euston – Crewe via Northampton, New Street, Soho, Perry Barr, Bushbury
57316 1300 Crewe – Preston via Styal, Piccadilly, Salford Crescent, Bolton
57316 1558 Preston – Crewe via Bolton, Salford Crescent, Piccadilly, Styal
87002 1748 Crewe – Coventry via Bushbury, Perry Barr, Soho, New Street
221 113 1924 Coventry – Reading
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Sunday 12/02/06
The Fort William sleeper portion was amended to start from Oban because of engineering work north of Bridge of Orchy, thus providing the first sleeper service out of Oban for several decades.
As 67s weren’t cleared to Oban, a 37/4 was the power:
37406 1943 Oban – Edinburgh Waverley via Crianlarich, Westerton, Falkirk High.
I would add that a Sunday in Oban in February does not have a lot to commend it.

By the way, I gently tip my hat to those of you picking up outrageous diesel haulage of EMUs around the Southern Region in the depths of the great freeze of 1991. It was all I could do to keep going to / from work, without picking up new haulage too.
 

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Friday 12th February 1993

90002 0725 Euston - Crewe
87022 0946 Crewe - Liverpool LS
304021 1035 Liverpool LS - Crewe
86233 1435 Crewe - Preston
47828 1528 Preston - Manchester P
86234 1800 Manchester P - Birmingham NS
86249 2018 Birmingham NS - Euston

Thursday 12th February 1998

90004 0755 Euston - Milton Keynes
86248 0839 Milton Keynes - Stafford
47825 0908 Stafford - Stockport (was reported running 128 minutes late so had hoped for something more interesting on the front. Oh well you can't have everything!)
90002 1238 Stockport - Stoke
86227 1331 Stoke - Manchester
90007 1430 Manchester P - Stoke
86229 1522 Stoke - Stafford
90005 1540 Stafford - Crewe
87005 1625 Crewe - Stafford
86260 1707 Stafford - Manchester P
87035 1830 Manchester P - Milton Keynes
87024 2025 Milton Keynes - Euston
 

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Saturday 13th February 1988 - Young Persons Railcard Promotion

86243 0930 Euston - Crewe
304003 1242 Crewe - Manchester P
47434 1412 Manchester P - Crewe
81017 1712 Crewe - Euston (1st and only haulage to date from this class. On seeing it approach I assumed that it was a class 85.)
 

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Tuesday 13/02/01
Another Doncaster work trip:
43152 + 43xxx 0802 Reading – Paddington
91001 0930 Kings Cross – Doncaster
E* 3312 + E* 3311 1808 Doncaster – Kings Cross
43127 + 43041 2100 Paddington – Reading
____________________________________________________________________________
Wednesday 13/02/02
An after-work move …
DEMU 1001 1910 Charing Cross – Hastings
DEMU 205 001 Hastings – Ashford
EMU 1839 + 1599 Ashford – Charing Cross
____________________________________________________________________________
Sunday 13/02/05 – Sleepers to Scotland!
43041 + 43020 1836 Reading – Paddington
90029 2000 Euston – Crewe via Stechford, Bushbury
67028 2325 Crewe – Preston via Styal, Piccadilly, Salford Crescent, Bolton
This was a very substantial load (16 Mk 3s + 90029 dead) for a single class 67, and way over the nominal ETH limit. It coped very well.
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Monday 13/02/06
90017 0105 Edinburgh Waverley – Rugeley Trent Valley
90017 failed on the Up Fast at Rugeley Trent Valley. We sat there blocking the line for a very long time until assistance arrived …
90028 (0851) Rugeley Trent Valley – Euston via Northampton. 193’ late into Euston. I was a tad late for work that morning.
 

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Saturday 14th February 2004

43108+43006 1015 Kings X - York
91111 1332 York - Kings X
86234 1700 Liverpool St - Colchester
90017 1801 Colchester - Liverpool St

Monday 14th February 2005

73202 1215 Victoria - Gatwick Apt
73202 1305 Gatwick Apt - Victoria
90030 1722 Euston - Northampton
321418 1842 Northampton - M Keynes
90035 1905 M Keynes - Northampton
321423+321428 1932 Northampton - Bletchley
321338+321335 2002 Bletchley - M Keynes
87002 2024 M Keynes - Euston
 

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Monday 14/02/05
90029 0102 Preston – Edinburgh Waverley
67008 0440 Edinburgh Waverley – Aberdeen
43039 + 43116 0755 Aberdeen – Edinburgh Waverley
43105 + 43197 1025 Edinburgh Waverley – Kirkcaldy
43099 + 43038 1143 Kirkcaldy – Edinburgh Waverley
90021 1234 Edinburgh Waverley – North Berwick
90021 1317 North Berwick – Wallyford
90037 1345 Wallyford – North Berwick
90037 1420 North Berwick – Edinburgh Waverley
43167 + 43119 1633 Edinburgh Waverley – Inverness via Stirling
67027 2040 Inverness – Edinburgh Waverley via Stirling

Tuesday 15/02/05
90033 0108 Edinburgh Waverley – Euston
At this point I was just about ready to go home, but 87002 was sitting there on the 0810 Euston – Birmingham. Well, it would be rude to refuse …
87002 0810 Euston – Birmingham New Street
87002 1000 Birmingham New Street – Euston
43150 + 43135 1205 Paddington - Reading
 

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Never had that one....although I did have 81 001 (from Glasgow to Euston) and 81 003 (from somewhere to somewhere else....can't remember now!).
 

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A brief walk along the Thames Path necessitated the following journeys:

458521/458532: 2K13 STW-TWI
458524/458528: 2C21 TWI-RDG
387172/387155: 2N22 RDG-GOR
387144/387143: 2P54 CHO-RDG
387147/387171: 2N38 RDG-GOR
387155/387172: 2P58 GOR-RDG
458536/458513: 2C50 RDG-RMD
455705/455715: 2O47 RMD-STW
 

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Saturday 14th February 2004

43108+43006 1015 Kings X - York
91111 1332 York - Kings X
86234 1700 Liverpool St - Colchester
90017 1801 Colchester - Liverpool St

Monday 14th February 2005

73202 1215 Victoria - Gatwick Apt
73202 1305 Gatwick Apt - Victoria
90030 1722 Euston - Northampton
321418 1842 Northampton - M Keynes
90035 1905 M Keynes - Northampton
321423+321428 1932 Northampton - Bletchley
321338+321335 2002 Bletchley - M Keynes
Scratches head - 73s on GatEx in 2005 ?.
 

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Monday 15th February 1988

43165+43??? 09:21 Beeston-St Pancras
43110+43163 16:00 St Pancras-Beeston

Saturday 15th February 1992

158777 10:53 Long Eaton-Derby
47832 11:45 Derby-York
43087+43??? 14:09 York Darlington
 

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Never had that one....although I did have 81 001 (from Glasgow to Euston) and 81 003 (from somewhere to somewhere else....can't remember now!).
You'll have to cross your fingers for a "Roarer Revival" railtour to get it in the book!
 

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Saturday 15th February 2003

87006 0725 Euston - M Keynes
90033 0906 M Keynes - Euston
86233 1100 Euston - M Keynes
321424 1212 M Keynes - Cheddington
321406 1242 Cheddington - M Keynes
86229 1317 M Keynes - Birmingham Int
90023 1502 Birmingham Int - Crewe
43093+43121 1646 Crewe - Stafford
90037 1716 Stafford - Wilmslow
323239 1830 Wilmslow - Crewe
87011 1910 Crewe - M Keynes
86212 2106 M Keynes - Euston

Friday 15th February 2008

90021 1650 Euston - Birmingham NS
90021 1900 Birmingham NS - Euston
 

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Saturday 16th February 2002

91120 0810 Kings X - Grantham
91110 0942 Grantham - Doncaster
91101 1034 Doncaster - Newcastle
91024 1229 Newcastle - Doncaster
91127 1434 Doncaster - Newcastle
91013 1626 Newcastle - Newark
91120 1839 Newark - Peterborough
91128 1937 Peterborough - Kings X

Saturday 16th February 2008

86101 0934 Kings X - near New Southgate
86101 near New Southgate - Wood Green
86101 Wood Green - Retford
Due to the failure of the previous train at New Barnet (0930 ex KX loco 91128), we had to set back from New Southgate to cross to the down slow line.

Then a bit of new track bashing
144013 1223 Retford - Lincoln
144013 1327 Lincoln - Sheffield
142088 1530 Sheffield - Retford

Back to the ECML
221104 1617 Retford - Grantham
91108 1640 Grantham - Newark
91122 1708 Newark - Peterborough
43119+43077 1745 Peterborough - Doncaster
86101 1910 Doncaster - Kings X
 

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Saturday 16th February 2008
86101 0934 Kings X - near New Southgate
86101 near New Southgate - Wood Green
86101 Wood Green - Retford
Due to the failure of the previous train at New Barnet (0930 ex KX loco 91128), we had to set back from New Southgate to cross to the down slow line.


I have 6 Mile Post.
Then,
Set back to KX457 Signal (4.75 Mile Post)
DN Fast to DN Slow at Wood Green South Jn
DN Slow to DN Fast to New Barnet North Jn
 

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