Back in the day...

[QJ]

Monday 03 May 1982 (3rd day of an All Line Railrover)
86227 WN 1V61 2355 (PD) Glasgow Central - Bristol Temple Meads (Carstairs to Birmingham New Street) after 47534 had worked in on 1C97 2340 Edinburgh - Carstairs through coaches attachment
2*101(3) DMU Leamington Spa - Aberystwyth ADEX (Birmingham New Street to Shrewsbury via the Abbey Foregate curve to English Bridge Junction and reverse into Shrewsbury station on top of 1042 Shrewsbury - Aberystwyth)
2*101(3) DMU Leamington Spa - Aberystwyth ADEX + 1*101(2)+1*108(2) 1042 Shrewsbury - Aberystwyth (Shrewsbury to Aberystwyth) - ten coach DMU lash up
VofR 98008 (8 Llywelin) 2J98 1335 Aberystwyth - Devils Bridge
VofR 98008 (8 Llywelin) 2J98 1635 Devils Bridge - Aberystwyth
25044 KD + 25048 BS 1705 Aberystwyth - Manchester Piccadilly ADEX (Aberystwyth to Crewe) - as a Plymothian trust me to get partly bowled by an ex Laira rat

Farce developed at Devil's Bridge and 1600 and 1635 to Aberystwyth from Devil's Bridge were combined departing at 1703 as a ten coach train. 1705 ADEX from Aberystwyth to Manchester Piccadilly was retimed to depart at 1905 and also acted as the 1900 service train from Aberystwyth to Shrewsbury.

85024 CE 1S05 2050 London Euston - Inverness (Crewe to Carstairs) then onto Mossend (mp92¼) as 1T02 Carstairs to Glasgow Queen Street (for attaching to 1B07 0600 Glasgow QS to Fort William)

 

[1971martin]

Saturday 4th May 2013 - Mid Norfolk Railway 1980s gala day 1

90015 0930 Liverpool St - Norwich
170204 1140 Norwich - Wymondham
50019 1230 Wymondham - Dereham
47579 1340 Dereham - Thuxton
47596 1402 Thuxton - Dereham
37003 1445 Dereham - Wymondham
170206 1616 Wymondham - Norwich
90011 1730 Norwich - Liverpool St

 

[D6130]

MONDAY 5th May 1986:

DMU. Thornaby-Darlington
45 137 Darlington-Chester
47 629 Chester-Holyhead
MV "St David" Holyhead-Dún Laoghaire
EMU Dún Laoghaire-Bray

 

[1971martin]

Sunday 5th May 2013 - Mid Norfolk Railway 1980s gala day 2

90004 1036 Stratford - Norwich
170202 1303 Norwich - Wymondham
47596 1340 Wymondham - Dereham
50019 1445 Dereham - Wymondham
170202 1554 Wymondham - Norwich
90012 1700 Norwich - Stratford

 

[CW2]

Thursday 06/05/04
5029 “Nunney Castle” 1345 Paddington – Bristol Temple Meads via Bath Spa
180 114 1740 Bristol Temple Meads – Reading via Bath Spa

 

[Harvester]

Saturday 7th May 1977

45407+4472 Carnforth-Ravenglass
2-8-2 ‘River Esk‘ ? Ravenglass-Eskdale-Ravenglass
45407+4472 Ravenglass-Carnforth

This railtour was from Nottingham to Sellafield via Woodhead, with stops for shed visits at Dinting and Carnforth. Slides taken that day indicate a Duff (unrecorded) was used to Carnforth and back. The visit to the R&E Railway was an option instead of Sellafield, which was a dire choice on the day with open stock and rainfall. 4472 was substituting for a Class 5, hence the unusual steam combination!


Monday 7th May 1990

47832 13:55 Derby- Sheffield
43057+43068 15:54 Sheffield-Derby

 

[xotGD]

Saturday 7th May 1977

45407+4472 Carnforth-Ravenglass
2-8-2 ‘River Esk‘ ? Ravenglass-Eskdale-Ravenglass
45407+4472 Ravenglass-Carnforth

This railtour was from Nottingham to Sellafield via Woodhead, with stops for shed visits at Dinting and Carnforth. Slides taken that day indicate a Duff (unrecorded) was used to Carnforth and back. The visit to the R&E Railway was an option instead of Sellafield, which was a dire choice on the day with open stock and rainfall. 4472 was substituting for a Class 5, hence the unusual steam combination!


Monday 7th May 1990

47832 13:55 Derby- Sheffield
43057+43068 15:54 Sheffield-Derby

I thought that the Six Bells Junction website might provide the missing Duff gen for your railtour but sadly not.

 

[barrowjack]

Saturday 07 May 1988 – SVR Gala Weekend



108xxx Barrow In Furness - Lancaster
87011 Lancaster - Crewe
87035 Crewe - Birmingham New Street
1553xx Birmingham New Street - Kidderminster
20170 Kidderminster - Highley
37427 Highley - Arley
St 7819 Arley - Kidderminster
118xxx Kidderminster - Birmingham New Street
86xxx Birmingham New Street - Stafford
870xx Stafford - Lancaster
108xxx Lancaster - Barrow In Furness

At the time I didn’t record unit numbers, assume the 2 108’s be the “prison” units from Kingmoor, no idea why I didnt record the two electrics even though i did photo he 87! Some images below from the day



Photos
1) 20170
2) 59001
3) 55015
4) 870xx arriving at Stafford

 

[xotGD]

Saturday 07 May 1988 – SVR Gala Weekend

I was there that day too. See my post up thread...

 

[Harvester]

Saturday 8th May 2010

HST 07:28 Nottingham-St Pancras
Piccadilly line to Heathrow

First leg of a long dreary journey to New York. The flight took over ten hours, being rerouted to avoid volcanic ash, via north Iceland, Greenland and Quebec

 

[43096]

Saturday 8th May 2010

43079+43??? 07:28 Nottingham-St Pancras
Piccadilly line to Heathrow

First leg of a long dreary journey to New York. The flight took over ten hours, being rerouted to avoid volcanic ash, via north Iceland, Greenland and Quebec

Well, whatever you had it wasn't 43079 - that had been a FGW power car for over 5 years by that date. So the top gen is that you had 43???+43???...

 

[D6130]

WEDNESDAY 6TH MAY 1987:

47 489 Portsmouth Harbour-Guildford


WEDNESDAY 7th MAY 1986:

162 Bray-Dublin Connolly
155+182 Dublin Heuston-Kilkenny
182+155 Kilkenny-Dublin Heuston
157 Dublin Connolly-Bray


THURSDAY 8th MAY 1986:

EMU Bray-Dublin Connolly
088 Dublin Heuston-Mallow
088 Mallow-Dublin Heuston
EMU Dublin Connolly-Bray

 

[CW2]

Thursday 06/05/04
5029 “Nunney Castle” 1345 Paddington – Bristol Temple Meads via Bath Spa
180 114 1740 Bristol Temple Meads – Reading via Bath Spa

Saturday 08/05/10
350 267 0804 Rugby – Stafford
57601 0920 Stafford – Crewe
46233 “Duchess of HamiltonSutherland” 1015 Crewe – Carlisle
46233 “Duchess of HamiltonSutherland” 1610 Carlisle – Crewe
Diverted via Walton Old Junction to allow a late-running service train to overtake.
221 109 2001 Crewe – Wolverhampton
390 013 2045 Wolverhampton – Rugby

Monday 09/05/05
After work, a couple of friends and I set off to Ipswich:
90009 1730 Liverpool Street - Ipswich
The purpose of this was to attend a recording of “I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue”. Madness!

 

[Harvester]

Well, whatever you had it wasn't 43079 - that had been a FGW power car for over 5 years by that date. So the top gen is that you had 43???+43???...

So it looks like my OP needs amending, plain ‘HST’ should suffice!

 

[D6130]

46233 “Duchess of Hamilton” 1015 Crewe – Carlisle
46233 “Duchess of Hamilton” 1610 Carlisle – Crewe

"Duchess of Sutherland", I think!


FRIDAY 9th MAY 1986:

EMU Bray-Dublin Connolly
112 Dublin Connolly-Belfast Central
DMU Belfast York Road-Larne harbour
M.V. "Galloway Princess" Larne-Stranraer
47 635 Stranraer-Kilwinning
EMU Kilwinning-Stevenston

 

[CW2]

Oops, I'd better change that pronto!
Thanks for spotting it!

 

[D6130]

SATURDAY 10th MAY 1986:

EMU Stevenston-Glasgow Central
47 704 Glasgow Queen Street-Edinburgh via Falkirk High
HST Edinburgh-Darlington
DMU Darlington-Eaglescliffe

 

[CD]

Saturday 12th May 1984.

Very rare diversion over the GW mainline for a Pompey-Cardiff.

33031 Sherborne-Salisbury (1002 0650 Yeovil Jn-Waterloo)
33030 Salisbury-Fareham (1O61 0834 Salisbury-Portsmouth Hbr)
33009 Fareham-Bristol TM (1V22 0820 Brighton-Cardiff) via Botley, Reading West Curve, Bath.
45116 Bristol TM-Cardiff (1V22)
45116 Cardiff-Bristol TM (2B38 1400 Cardiff-Bristol)
33009 Bristol TM-Portsmouth Hbr (1O83 1510 Bristol-Portsmouth Hbr) via Bath, Reading West Curve, Botley.
33020 Portsmouth Hbr-Salisbury (1V35 1810 Portsmouth Hbr-Salisbury)
50006 Salisbury-Yeovil Jn (1V19 1910 Waterloo-Exeter)

 

[D6130]

Saturday 12th May 1984.

Very rare diversion over the GW mainline for a Pompey-Cardiff.

33031 Sherborne-Salisbury (1002 0650 Yeovil Jn-Waterloo)
33030 Salisbury-Fareham (1O61 0834 Salisbury-Portsmouth Hbr)
33009 Fareham-Bristol TM (1V22 0820 Brighton-Cardiff) via Botley, Reading West Curve, Bath.
45116 Bristol TM-Cardiff (1V22)
45116 Cardiff-Bristol TM (2B38 1400 Cardiff-Bristol)
33009 Bristol TM-Portsmouth Hbr (1O83 1510 Bristol-Portsmouth Hbr) via Bath, Reading West Curve, Botley.
33020 Portsmouth Hbr-Salisbury (1V35 1810 Portsmouth Hbr-Salisbury)
50006 Salisbury-Yeovil Jn (1V19 1910 Waterloo-Exeter)

That certainly was a rarity. At that time I was a guard at Brighton and regularly swapped shifts to work 1V22 as far as Salisbury, albeit usually on a Monday-Friday. I was once diverted via Eastleigh as a result of a fatality, but don't recall a Reading diversion. Maybe I was on leave in Italy at the time?

 

[D1537]

Thursday 14 May 1987

47401 (GD) Leeds-Manchester Vic 1M26
47407 (GD) Manchester Vic-Huddersfield 1E19
47425 (GD) Huddersfield-Manchester Vic 1M76
47402 (GD) Manchester Vic-York 1E16
47418 (GD) York-Leeds 1M19
47401 (GD) Leeds-Newcastle 1E93

Looks like a normal day, but it was an unusual one - the first day of loco-haulage on the Transpennine route since who knows when that there were no 45s in use. The new sectorised service, supposedly with PTPA pool 47s, had started earlier in the week, but until the Thursday, Gateshead and Allerton had been throwing 45/1s that they had lying around out on trains, presumably hoping to get rid of them. On this day, all the trains were hauled by the "correct" locomotives, and Gateshead pushed their 45/1 out on the Newcastle-Poole, where it promptly failed at Tyne Yard. With an evil sense of humour, Saltley still found 45113 and sent it back on the Poole-Newcastle.

 

[D6130]

THURSDAY 14th MAY 1987:

East Anglian Canfest:

EMU Guildford-Waterloo
W&C Waterloo-Bank
Walk Bank-Liverpool Street
86 243 Liverpool Street-Colchester
86 220 Colchester-Manningtree
86 208 Manningtree-Ipswich
86 236 Ipswich-Stowmarket
86 253 Stowmarket-Diss
86 257 Diss-Norwich
DMU Norwich-Ely
47 634 Ely-Cambridge
86 206 Cambridge-Liverpool Street
Underground Liverpool Street-Waterloo
EMU Waterloo-Portsmouth Harbour
Wightlink Seacat Portsmouth Harbour-Ryde Pierhead
EMU Ryde Pierhead-Ryde St Johns Road

 

[QJ]

Sunday 15 May 1994

Union Pacific City of Los Angeles excursion from Las Vegas NV departing at 0830 to Ontario CA 297.6 miles of UP 3985 ALCO 4-6-6-4 Challenger steam loco assisted by GM E9 diesels 949+963+951.

 

[QJ]

That certainly was a rarity. At that time I was a guard at Brighton and regularly swapped shifts to work 1V22 as far as Salisbury, albeit usually on a Monday-Friday. I was once diverted via Eastleigh as a result of a fatality, but don't recall a Reading diversion. Maybe I was on leave in Italy at the time?

Seems to have been a 1984 thing. I have in my notes:
33061 10/02/1984 1Z63 1618 Cardiff Central to London Paddington additional (sadly I was at work that day so only managed Reading to London Paddington on this train)
33008 13/05/1984 1O93 1755 Cardiff Central to Portsmouth Harbour (I had from Bristol TM to Basingstoke via Bath, Swindon and Reading West Junction to Oxford Road Junction curve)
33018 29/07/1984 1O81 1230 Taunton to Portsmouth Harbour (via Bath, Swindon, Reading West Junction, Reading General (RM)) which I only had from Reading to Basingstoke as I had been at work that day

As an aside I managed the Berks and Hants route by jumping on an eastbound train at Newton Abbot hauled by 33008 on 12 April 1980. It turned out to be hauling a returning ADEX from Plymouth to Clapham Junction non stop back to the SR by way of the Frome and Westbury avoiding lines to Reading then Ascot and Richmond. Oops! An unexpected (cough) 197 miles!

 

[xotGD]

297.6 miles of UP

That's a very long hill!

 

[37166]

Thursday 16th May 1991

09009 Brighton P5 to Brighton P5 1M50 1420 Brighton-Manchester Piccadilly

 

[D6130]

09009 Brighton P5 to Brighton P5 1M50 1420 Brighton-Manchester Piccadilly

Was that a shunt release move for the train loco (presumably a class 47)?

 

[QJ]

xotGD: Steam loco number Union Pacific Thirty-nine Eighty-five. Does that help. There were plenty of gradients on the route of AMTKS Desert Wind though the steepest, Cajon Pass, was downhill. The E9 diesels were provided for additional brake force for the 21 coach Union Pacific excursion train. UP3985 did tackle the 2.2% grade a few days later as a separate excursion.​

Monday 16 May 1994 (part of a rail trip from Seattle WA to San Diego CA and return)

Metrolink 866 (GM F59 PH 1992) train #405 0720 Riverside CA - Los Angeles Union (Ontario CA to Los Angeles Union)
AMTK 237 (GM F40PH) train #570 San Diegan 0840 Los Angeles Union - San Diego CA (Los Angeles Union - San Diego CA)

 

[QJ]

Friday 16 May 1980 (just when I was heading home off a night shift my last required for haulage class 50 tempted me away...)
50040 BR 1M11 0850 London Paddington - Manchester Piccadilly (London Paddington to Birmingham New Street)
50040 BR 1V41 1122 Liverpool Lime Street - London Paddington (Birmingham New Street to London Paddington)

Saturday 16 May 1987 (for something a bit different)
1*101(2) DMU 0801 Darlington - Hartlepool (Stockton to Billingham)

1 (6wDH TH 296V 1981) brake van charter around the ICI Billingham rail network

1*101(2) DMU 1432 Hartlepool - Darlington (Billingham to Darlington)
1*HST 1525 Newcastle - Plymouth (Darlington to Sheffield)
31439 1525 Liverpool Lime Street - Cleethorpes (Sheffield to Doncaster)
1*HST 1755 Leeds - London Kings Cross (Doncaster to London Kings Cross)
1*4VEP EMU 2112 London Waterloo to Basingstoke (plus (1*4VEP detached at Woking for Alton)

Saturday 16 May 1992 (Rive Droite du Rhône freight line red penning in France)
SNCF 7327 0726 Lyon Perrache - Montpellier (Lyon Perrache to Nîmes)
(via Valence - Livron - le Pont du Rhône - La Voulte sur Rhône - Le Tiel - Pont d'Avignon - Remoulins - Lédenon - Grezan)
1*TGV (set 86) ???? Montpellier - Paris Lyon (Nîmes to Paris Lyon)
SNCF 15049 ???? Paris Est - Nancy (Paris Est to Nancy)
SNCF 16690 ???? Nancy - Metz (Nancy to Metz)

Sunday 16 May 2004 (The Golden Arrow 75th Anniversary RTC Railtour)
SNCF 231K8 Paris Nord - Calais Ville (Paris Nord to Calais Ville with a break at Noyelles to visit the Baie de Somme)
CF de Porto Rico No2 (1000mm Cail 2-6-0T 2269 1889) ???? Noyelles - St Valery Port (Noyelles to St Valery Port)
3714 Beton Bazouches (1000mm Buffaud Robatel 0-6-2T 1909) ???? St Valery Port - Noyelles (St Valery Port to Noyelles)
P&O ferry Pride of Aquitaine (IMO 8908466) Calais Maritime to Dover Eastern Docks
(was known as RTM Prins Filip now known as Calais Seaways)
37689 TO ???? Dover Priory - London Victoria (Dover Priory to London Victoria) Unexpected red pen in the bagging area owing to the failure of the booked steam loco
(via Folkestone Central - Tonbridge - Redhill - East Croydon - Clapham Junction - Stewarts Lane Junction)

 

[37166]

Was that a shunt release move for the train loco (presumably a class 47)?

Yes, i knew the shunter there and he would let me stay on for the shunt release.

 

[1971martin]

Sunday 18th May 2014

91125 1020 Kings X - Peterborough
43272+43309 1919 Peterborough - Kings X

for the NVR Diesel Gala featuring D335, D1501, D9529, 37324 & 60074