Back in the day...

[1971martin]

Sunday 25th April 2004 - day 7 of a 7 day all line rail rover. (All Southern units today I'm afraid)

3574+3570 0733 Folkestone W - Waterloo E (68.50)
3558+3581 0945 Waterloo - Guildford (via Cobham) (30.00)
1308+1304 1055 Guildford - Woking (6.00)
2405+2422 1119 Woking - Guildford (6.00)
3402+3430 1218 Guilford - Surbiton (via Cobham) (18.00)
2315+1311 1247 Surbiton - Waterloo (12.00)
1905+3482 1432 Victoria - Brighton (51.00)
1752+3902 1559 Brighton - Victoria (51.00)
1860 1726 Victoria - E Croydon (10.50)
1721 1758 E Croydon - Clapham Jn (7.75)
2317+1313 1813 Clapham Jn - Woking (20.50)
3520+1312 1853 Woking - Waterloo (24.50)
3562+3449 1957 Waterloo E - Folkestone W (68.50)
Day 7 374.25 miles
Total mileage for week 4190

Wednesday 25th April 2007

90034 1651 Euston - Birmingham NS
90034 1900 Birmingham NS - Euston

Monday 25th April 2022 - My first ever trip to Wales on an electric train

387151+387164 0712 Paddington - Cardiff C
387164+387151 0951 Cardiff C - Paddington

 

[1971martin]

Monday 26th April 2010

43016+43026 0906 Paddington - Taunton
57309+(57302) 1102 Taunton - Cardiff C
57302+(57309) 1400 Cardiff C - Taunton
57309+(57302) 1616 Taunton - Bristol TM
43198+43009 1730 Bristol TM - Paddington

Friday 26th April 2019

90001 1000 Liverpool St - Norwich
90002 1200 Norwich - Diss
90013 1229 Diss - Norwich
90014 1300 Norwich - Diss
90009 1329 Diss - Norwich
90009 1430 Norwich - Liverpool St
315838+315849 1636 Liverpool St - Stratford
317666+317513 1717 Stratford - Angel Road (station closure imminent)
317502+317660 1753 Angel Road - Stratford
321423+321311+321340 1809 Stratford - Witham
321332+321335+321317 1858 Witham - Colchester
90013 1930 Colchester - Stratford

Friday 26th April 2022

91106 0906 Kings X - Doncaster
331111 1126 Doncaster - Wakefield W
91110 1201 Wakefield W - Leeds
91110 1245 Leeds - Doncaster
91109 1347 Doncaster - Kings X

 

[1971martin]

Tuesday 27th April 2010

43069+43012 1130 Paddington - Reading
43026+43031 1211 Reading - Cardiff C
57302+(57309) 1400 Cardiff C - Filton Abbey Wood
153370 1448 Filton Abbey Wood - Bristol P
43134+43181 1507 Bristol P - Cardiff C
57310 1615 Cardiff C - Newport
67022+(67017) 1715 Newport - Filton Abbey Wood
158749 1748 Filton Abbey Wood - Bristol P
43015+43174 1801 Bristol P - Paddington

Wednesday 27th April 2022

91107 1033 Kings X - Grantham
91109 1218 Grantham - Kings X
91109 1403 Kings X - Doncaster
801104+801108 1617 Doncaster - Kings X

 

[CW2]

Tuesday 27/04/04
After a work visit to Ipswich, I had the afternoon free to travel home. Naturally I chose to use my time productively …
90021 1339 Ipswich – Norwich
90031 1440 Norwich – Liverpool Street
90031 1700 Liverpool Street – Ipswich
86232 1841 Ipswich – Liverpool Street

 

[37166]

Sunday 28 April 1991

47491 Kettering-London St Pancras 1C29 1830 Nottingham-London St Pancras
73201 London Victoria-Gatwick Airport 1D88 2100 London Victoria-Gatwick
47805 Gatwick Airport-Brighton 1O90 1210 Glasgow Central-Brighton

 

[QJ]

Saturday 28 April 1979 (another overnight for a railtour)
47524 IM 1L22 2300 (PD) London Kings Cross - Bradford Interchange (Peterborough to Grantham)
55018 FP 2120 (PD) Bradford Interchange -London Kings Cross (Grantham to Peterborough)
47405 GD 0115 London Kings Cross - Leeds (Peterborough to Doncaster)
31201 FP 0405 London Kings Cross - Leeds (Doncaster to Leeds)

Railtour from Leeds to Port Clarence Low Level Sidings, Skinningrove and Saltburn and return to York (DMU lash up)

47411 FP 1816 York - London Kings Cross (York to Peterborough)
1*HST 1655 Berwick on Tweed - London Kings Cross (Peterborough to London Kings Cross)

 

[Harvester]

Monday 29th April 2002

91013 11:34 York-Doncaster
142??? 12:02 Doncaster-Sheffield
43050+43060 13:27 Sheffield-Derby

 

[QJ]

Monday 29 April 1989 (Brittany track bash)
72057 6932 1804 Toulon - Nantes (Bordeaux St Jean to Nantes)
67442 + 67430 3735 0632 Nantes - Redon (Nantes to Redon)
72020 3730 0545 Quimper - Paris Montparnasse (Redon to Rennes)
22358 141 0708 Paris Montparnasse - Brest (Rennes to St Brieuc)
67539 + 67427 141 0708 Paris Montparnasse - Brest (St Brieuc to Guingamp)
1*X2100 DMU 1138 Guingamp - Carhaix (Guingamp to Carhaix)
Bus from Carhaix to Loudeac
1*X2100 DMU 1810 Loudeac - St Brieuc (Loudeac to St Brieuc)
72081 1436 Paris Montparnasse - Brest (St Brieuc to Morlaix)
Bus to Roscoff (fortunately branch covered by train 05/02/1988)
Brittany Ferries mv Quiberon (IMO7362110) sailing from Roscoff to Plymouth

This was the last day of a week rambling around the SNCF network. Sailing to my home town wasn't planned. Having got to St Brieuc from Loudeac I realised I wouldn't be able to get to a short crossing port before my ticket validity expired. So in mild panic I headed to Roscoff in the hope of getting on the ferry to Plymouth. Thankfully my get out of jail card was accepted and a relieved QJ headed for Millbay breathing a sigh or three of relief. It was just a case of then sorting getting the hell out of Plymouth tout suite back to London for work.

 

[1971martin]

Saturday 29th April 2000

90025 0810 Kings X - Leeds
90025 1105 Leeds - Kings X
86237 1400 Liverpool St - Ipswich
86221 1542 Ipswich - Liverpool St
86221 1730 Liverpool St - Manningtree
321354 1839 Manningtree - Colchester
86232 1902 Colchester - Liverpool St

Monday 29th April 2019

91102 1130 Kings X - Peterborough
91121 1230 Peterborough - Kings X
90039 1406 Kings X - Newark
90039 1556 Newark - Kings X

I am now back where I started one year ago, however the missing book that covers between late 2010 & 2015 has been found, so I will look through that.

 

[xotGD]

I am now back where I started one year ago, however the missing book that covers between late 2010 & 2015 has been found, so I will look through that.

Thank you for sharing. It is great to look back at what we all got up to over the years.

 

[NorthWestRover]

Need some other newbies...

 

[NorthWestRover]

On this day in 1986 (37 years ago eek), I was doing Ned leaps in the West Midlands.

Two Duffs, two Cans and three Roarers (85002, 81007, 81008).

 

[D6130]

Missed a day due to having been away travelling around Italy:

SATURDAY 28th APRIL 1988:

EMU Ryde St Johns Road-Ryde Pierhead
Wightlink seacat Ryde Pierhead-Porstmouth Harbour
33 119 Portsmouth Harbour-Salisbury
50 050 Salisbury-Exeter St Davids
43 190+43 ??? Exeter St Davids-Penzance

 

[CW2]

Friday 30/04/04
A day off to do a Fridays Only working I’d long had my eye on:
180 104 1110 Reading – Bristol Temple Meads
31452 + 31454 1252 Bristol Temple Meads – Brighton via Westbury, Fareham.
The train was load 4, with the locos top and tail, working in multiple, 31452 leading.
319 005 + 319 370 1629 Brighton – Farringdon
43189 + 43034 2000 Paddington – Reading

 

[QJ]

Saturday 30 April 2004 (last day of a 4 day excursion from Calgary AL to Vancouver BC)
CPR 2816 (Steam CPR H-1b MLW 4-6-4) Kamloops CP to to Vancouver CP

 

[Harvester]

Monday 1st May 1978 - the first early May Bank Holiday

DMU Nottingham-Grantham
47410 Grantham-Doncaster
47424 13:14 Doncaster-York
DMU 16:34 York-Sheffield
45123 18:03 Sheffield-Nottingham

 

[CW2]

Sunday 01/05/05
Another Scottish Sleeper trip …
43186 + 43027 1750 Reading – London Waterloo via Richmond
(GWML closed at Maidenhead for points renewal, so hourly HST service from West Country diverted to Waterloo).
The sleepers were running from Euston via the ECML again, and were booked to be dragged as far as Peterborough. I arrived at Euston confidently expecting to see a 67 on the buffers, which would be dragged out to Wembley, then work the train to Peterborough. Wrong. 66002 was attached to the train. I hazarded a guess that it had just been used to bring the stock in, and that a 67 would be waiting at Wembley. Wrong again – they had run out of serviceable 67s, so 66002 worked the train to Peterborough!
90037 2006 Euston – Wembley Yard (+ 66002 on rear)
66002 2049 Wembley Yard – Peterborough (+ 90037 on rear) via Camden, Kings Cross Incline
90037 2249 Peterborough – Edinburgh Waverley
60’ late ex Peterborough due to delays in detaching the 66, energising then running round the 90, and getting us ready to depart.

 

[D1537]

Friday 1 May 1987 - Saturday 2 May 1987

47411 (GD) Newcastle-Leeds (1M73)
47407 (GD) Leeds-Sheffield (1V76)
dmu Sheffield-Doncaster
43195+43067 Doncaster-York (1N06)
47189 (CD) York-Grantham (1A66)
47422 (GD) Grantham-Doncaster (1L82)
47528 (GD) Doncaster-Darlington (1N83)
47466 (GD) Darlington-Doncaster (1A33)
---
47401 (GD) Doncaster-Newcastle (1N16)
47653 (GD) Newcastle-Middlesboro (2B01) (vice-pacer)
47653 (GD) Middlesboro-Carlisle (2M35) (vice-pacer)
47200 (KD) Carlisle-Preston (1M20) (via S&C, Blackburn)
47545 (CD) Preston-Hellifield (1P63)
dmu Hellifield-Leeds (1Z33)
47526 (GD) Leeds-Newcastle (1E59)

 

[1971martin]

Thank you for sharing. It is great to look back at what we all got up to over the years.

Thanks. Agreed good to look back. It's been a bit nostalgic for me going through the old books and seeing from other people what I missed while I was out.

 

[xotGD]

1st May 2023

Today the KWVR provided an opportunity to sample 37075, so it would have been rude not to. However, as I was not on my own I had to settle for one round trip, combined with a walk to the Bronte Bridge and a fish finger sandwich in Haworth.

Not a bad day all round.

A number of other cranks were there for the Syphon, so more revenue for the railway compared to a steam only operation.

 

[D6130]

37075

An ex-Thornaby loco IIRC?

 

[xotGD]

An ex-Thornaby loco IIRC?

Started life at Thornaby, had a later spell at Thornaby, but had a stint allocated to March in between.

Here it is straight out of the box:

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[D6130]

Here it is straight out of the box:

Nice. I don't remember her ever being that clean when I saw her trundling around Teesside with unfitted mineral trains back in the 1970s and 80s.

 

[CW2]

Monday 02/05/05
67004 0428 Edinburgh Waverley – Aviemore via Stirling
43096 + 43116 0829 Aviemore – Newcastle
91131 1308 Newcastle – Edinburgh Waverley
This was my first run on a “Mallard” refurbished Mk4 set, yes 18 years ago!
43112 + 43111 1500 Edinburgh Waverley – Leuchars
43117 + 43114 1620 Leuchars – Edinburgh Waverley
43099 + 43108 1834 Edinburgh Waverley – Aberdeen
67002 2140 Aberdeen – Edinburgh Waverley
Tuesday 03/05/05
90037 0110 Edinburgh Waverley – Euston via Carstairs avoider, Newton-le-Willows, Earlestown (a rare bit of bonus loco-hauled track)
… and straight into work!


... and as for 37075, it was unusual amongst Thornaby locos in that it had a working train heat boiler. So it was occasionally purloined for passenger work. The spell at March put that to good use.

 

[D6130]

FRIDAY 2nd MAY 1986:

33 110 Brighton-Havant (09 20 Brighton-Exeter St Davids)

 

[Falcon1200]

The spell at March put that to good use.

Yes indeed, during my two years at Harlow Town 37075 was a regular performer on the Cambridge main line. The glorious sound of a 37 accelerating a Down train out of Liverpool Street and rounding the curve at Bethnal Green is still with me now!

 

[CW2]

Monday 03/05/04 – a Bank Holiday spent mainly on HSTs:
43136 + 43175 0925 Reading – Paddington
43094 + 43123 1100 Euston – Manchester Piccadilly via Hixon
43123 + 43094 1427 Manchester Piccadilly – Euston via Hixon
43122 + 43065 1725 Euston – Tamworth
90010 1919 Tamworth – Euston
43026 + 43018 2133 Paddington - Reading

Monday 03/05/10 – another Bank Holiday, quietly doing some new track:
1369 1315 Chinnor – Thame Jn
1369 1345 Thame Jn - Chinnor

 

[AJM580]

Fri 3 May - Sunday May 5 1985

NENTA - The Western Highlander

47478 Norwich - Carlisle via Peterborough, Newcastle & Hexham
86216 Carlisle - Mossend Yard
37051 + 37266 Mossend Yard - Fort William
44767 Fort William - Mallaig
44767 Mallaig - Fort William
37051 + 37266 Fort William - Carstairs
81019 Carstairs - Carlisle
47478 Carlisle - Norwich (as per outward route)

 

[Magdalia]

Started life at Thornaby, had a later spell at Thornaby, but had a stint allocated to March in between.

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... and as for 37075, it was unusual amongst Thornaby locos in that it had a working train heat boiler. So it was occasionally purloined for passenger work. The spell at March put that to good use.

A batch of 24 EE Type 3s were new to Thornaby, D6755-78. 24 Thornaby EE Type 3s gave up their boilers in 1964/65, by which time they had D6779 and D6780, with D6758 and D6775 the two locomotives that escaped, going to Dairycoates in summer 1964.

37075 was based at March for roughly 10 years 1974-84 and was common on passenger work in East Anglia during that period.

 

[xotGD]

3rd May 2023

A work trip to Manchester today. This morning was plastic, but 1U71 has produces this evening to take me back to Leeds: