Back in the day...

[NorthWestRover]

Monday 4th August 1980

ALR Day 2 I was bound for Scotland and I was rewarded with two new 40s, a good day for me.

Wow!

5 x 40s
3 x Rats
Loads of McRats
And a Syphon thrown in for good measure
Oh, and two Roarers.

 

[Sultan1056]

Wow!

5 x 40s
3 x Rats
Loads of McRats
And a Syphon thrown in for good measure
Oh, and two Roarers.

Yes it was very good. The 47s were unavoidable!

 

[Sultan1056]

Thursday 5th August 1976

A spotting trip to Glasgow including a tour of St Rollox Works. This was my first experience of the class 27 push-pull service, usually a very good high speed thrash!

47471 York-Edinburgh (0718 York-Aberdeen)
27112+27209 Edinburgh-Glasgow QS (1130 Edinburgh-Glasgow QS)
EMU Glasgow QS-Springburn (1250 Milngavie-Springburn)
EMU Springburn-Glasgow QS-(1538 Springburn-Milngavie)
EMU Glasgow C-Motherwell via Hamilton (1615 Glasgow C-Motherwell)
EMU Motherwell-Glasgow C via Bellshill (1652 Motherwell-Glasgow C)
27101+27201 Glasgow QS-Edinburgh (1800 Glasgow QS-Edinburgh)
47471 Edinburgh-York (1620 Aberdeen-York)

Saturday 5th August 1978

45075 York-Sheffield (0700 Newcastle-Poole)
40019 Sheffield-Worksop (0845 Manchester Pic-Skegness)
DMU Worksop-Sheffield (0934 Lincoln-Sheffield)
37265 Sheffield-York (0740 Cardiff C-Newcastle)
40173 York-Seamer (0803 Glasgow QS-Scarborough)
31168 Seamer-Bridlington (1354 Scarborough-Hull)
47431 Bridlington-Scarborough (1112 Kings Cross-Scarborough)
DMU Scarborough-York (1354 Scarborough-Leeds)
55019 York-Doncaster (1040 Aberdeen-Kings Cross)
31111 Doncaster-Leeds (1345 Yarmouth-Leeds)
55022 Leeds-Doncaster (1855 Leeds-Kings Cross)
55006 Doncaster-Darlington (1800 Kings Cross-Newcastle)
31403 Darlington-York (2100 Newcastle-Kings Cross)

Tuesday 5th August 1980

Into East Anglia for a bit of class 37 action, however at Bishops Stortford I was distracted by “Apple 4” which was standing in the southbound bay on a goods train. IIRC it only consisted of two coal wagons and a brake van. I had my camera out and was setting myself up for a photo when the secondman called out to me. He was a fellow basher and he invited me across into the cab. I took a short cab ride to Harlow Town before I resumed my chase for 37s. By mid afternoon I went over to London Bridge to cover the East Grinstead commuters where unusually an Eastleigh 33 made an appearance. Over to Waterloo and the Channel Islands Boat Train turned up trumps again with a required 73, followed by 50008 to Andover. I was now aiming for Bristol for the 0114 to Milford and conveniently the 2300 Paddington-Bristol was scheduled to be loco hauled rather than its usual HST, so I worked my way over to Reading to intercept it. I was hoping that the train to Bristol would be hauled by a class 50 but was bowled by a Duff and to make matters worse it was one from the Eastern Region!

81001 Mossend Yard-Euston (2220 Perth-Euston)
37090 Liverpool St-Bishops Stortford (0736 Liverpool St-Cambridge)
31004 Bishops Stortford-Harlow Town (0850 Bishops Stortford-Temple Mills) Cab ride
37017 Harlow Town-Cambridge (1005 Liverpool St-Cambridge)
37022 Cambridge-Ely (1036 Liverpool St-Kings Lynn)
37097 Ely-Cambridge (1130 Kings Lynn-Liverpool St)
37017 Cambridge-Bishops Stortford (1239 Cambridge-Liverpool St)
37086 Bishops Stortford-Liverpool St (1327 Cambridge-Liverpool St)
S51+56 (1448 Bank-Waterloo)
5652+5653+5654 London Bridge-East Croydon (1520 Charing Cross-Tattenham Corner)
33061 East Croydon-Woldingham (1553 East Croydon-East Grinstead)
1114+1115+1123 Woldingham-East Croydon (1549 East Grinstead-Victoria)
5011 East Croydon-London Bridge (1610 Tattenham Corner-London Bridge)
33051 London Bridge-East Croydon (1720 London Bridge-Uckfield)
33015 East Croydon-Saunderstead (1750 London Bridge-East Grinstead)
33204 Saunderstead-Oxted (1818 London Bridge-East Grinstead)
1105+1319 Oxted-Clapham Jnc (1849 East Grinstead-Victoria)
508009 Clapham Jnc-Waterloo (1848 Waterloo-Waterloo via Kingston)
73116 Waterloo-Basingstoke (2005 Waterloo-Weymouth Quay)
50008 Basingstoke-Andover (2010 Waterloo-Salisbury)
33005 Andover-Basingstoke (2120 Salisbury-Basingstoke)
1404 Basingstoke-Reading (2059 Portsmouth H-Reading)
47520 Reading-Bristol TM (2300 Paddington-Bristol TM)

Wednesday 5th August 1981

During the school holidays the Scarborough Spa Steam Train was running twice a day from York. My interest was not in the Kettle (Sir Nigel Gresley) hauling the train but the loco that would take the stock forward to Leeds as an additional service. Today York kicked out non-boilered and required 31141.

31141 York-Leeds (2100 York-Leeds) Additional
E50161+50169 Leeds-York (2200 Leeds-York)

 

[xotGD]

40173 York-Seamer (0803 Glasgow QS-Scarborough)

Platformed at York or another dodgy centre road move?

 

[Sultan1056]

Platformed at York or another dodgy centre road move?

Definitely platformed this time. I don’t think that I have any more centre road bails to report!

 

[Kirkoswald]

02/08/80

86232 23.30 Manchester Piccadilly - Brighton (Via Birmingham to Mitre Bridge Jcn). i strongly suspect 86232 had a dragging loco as was Sat night/Sunday morning. Can anyone reading this add any details? Thanks.

03/08/80

33039 23.30 23.30 (2nd) Manchester Piccadilly - Brighton (Mitre Bridge - Brighton)
33110 13.12 Southampton - Weymouth Town (from Bournemouth)
33104 15.30 Weymouth Quay - Waterloo (to Bournemouth)
73111 15.30 Weymouth Quay - Waterloo (from Bournemouth)
????? 20.00 Kings Cross - Aberdeen (another missing record) Does anyone have any info on the missing locos? I had the service through to Aberdeen so all gen welcome.

04/08/80

27021 07.37 Aberdeen - Inverness
26025 11.10 Inverness - Wick (with 26024 as pilot from Georgemas Jcn)
26042 17.49 Thurso - Inverness (Thurso - Georgemas Jcn)
26024 17.49 Thurso - Inverness (Georgemas Jcn - Inverness)
40024 23.50 Inverness - Queen Street

05/08/80

47266 07.05 Glasgow Central - Carlisle (via GSW)
87034 09.36 Carlisle - Crewe
86209 12.06 Crewe -New Street
47191 13.15 New Street - Cardiff
45074 16.35 Cardiff - Bridgend

 

[D1537]

Tuesday 5 August 1980

31183 Nuneaton-Peterborough
31224+55018 Peterborough-Doncaster (1D00, both working)
55013 Doncaster-Peterborough (1E10)
31322 Peterborough-Nuneaton

Wednesday 5 August 1987

87023 Coventry-B'ham NS (1S64)
47100 B'ham NS-Sheffield (1E67, relief, via Whitacre)
47313 Sheffield-Stockport (1M12)
87033 Stockport-B'ham NS (1V19)
47589 B'ham NS-Coventry (1V19)

 

[Kirkoswald]

06/08/80

50029 00.02 Paddington - Penzance
50027 09.15 Penzance - St Erth
43137/43138 St Erth - Paddington (with 47029 as pilot Plymouth - Exeter)
55010 16.05 Kings Cross - Grantham
DMU Grantham - Boston
20043/20075 xx.xx Boston - Nottingham (relief ex Skegness)
20081/20139 20.30 Nottingham - Beeston
47326 xx.xx Beeston - Derby (Cleethorpes - Burton return adex)
DMU Derby - Crewe

 

[Sultan1056]

Saturday 6th August 1977

47029 York-Birmingham NS (0808 Newcastle-Bristol TM)
EMU Birmingham NS-Bescot (1156 Birmingham NS-Walsall)
EMU Bescot-Birmingham NS (1215 Walsall-Birmingham NS)
45034 Birmingham NS-Sheffield (0820 Plymouth-Leeds)
47077 Sheffield-York (0900 Paignton-Newcastle)

Sunday 6th August 1978

47552 York-Darlington (0830 Leeds-Edinburgh)
46015 Darlington-York (0925 Newcastle-Liverpool LS)
47543 York-Doncaster (1205 York-Kings Cross)
55021 Doncaster-Wakefield W (1040 Kings Cross-Bradford Ex)
DMU Wakefield W-Sheffield (1404 Leeds-Sheffield)
45072 Sheffield-York (1335 Birmingham NS-Newcastle)
47298 York-Darlington (0850 Plymouth-Edinburgh)
45011 Darlington-York (1810 Newcastle-Liverpool LS)
40088 York-Darlington (1800 Manchester Vic-Newcastle)
47552 Darlington-York (1750 Edinburgh-Leeds)

Wednesday 6th August 1980

Having just been bowled with a Duff on my inbound train from Reading I was greeted by the unwanted sight of 47131 at the head of my train to Milford Haven. I decided to to stick with the train and was rewarded with three 37s in West Wales. Later in the day I went across to Southampton in the search of class 33s, when I came across 73134 unexpectedly working a Waterloo-Bournemouth service.

47131 Bristol TM-Swansea (0124 Bristol TM-Milford Haven)
37182 Swansea-Carmarthen (0124 Bristol TM-Milford Haven)
37181 Carmarthen-Milford Haven (0124 Bristol TM-Milford Haven)
37181 Milford Haven-Carmarthen (0730 Milford Haven-Swansea)
37187 Carmarthen-Swansea (0830 Milford Haven-Swansea)
43048+43049 Swansea-Cardiff C (1045 Swansea-Paddington)
25220 Cardiff C-Newport (1150 Cardiff C-Crewe)
31163 Newport-Bristol TM (1210 Cardiff C-Portsmouth H)
33002 Bristol TM-Southampton C (1210 Cardiff C-Portsmouth H)
33105 Southampton C-Poole (0752 Newcastle-Poole)
33115 Poole-Bournemouth (1530 Weymouth-Waterloo)
3009 Bournemouth-Southampton C (1702 Bournemouth-Waterloo)
73134 Southampton C-Brockenhurst (1646 Waterloo-Bournemouth)
7710 Brockenhurst-Southampton C (xxxx Bournemouth-Waterloo)
33002 Southampton C-Warminster (1815 Portsmouth H-Cardiff C)
33010 Warminster-Salisbury (1923 Bristol TM-Portsmouth H)
33033 Salisbury-Andover (2120 Salisbury-Basingstoke)
47027 Andover-Basingstoke (2020 Exeter St D-Basingstoke)

 

[CD]

Saturday 6th August 1983

45125 Leeds-Bristol TM (1V56 2231 Bradford-Paignton)
45048 Bristol TM-Paignton (1V56 2231 Bradford-Paignton)
45048 Paignton-Exeter St.Davids (1E60 1005 Paignton-Leeds)
45017 Exeter St Davids-Plymouth (1V64 0741 Derby-Penzance)
45059 Plymouth-Sheffield (1E18 1220 Newquay-Leeds)
HST Sheffield-Leicester
46025 Leicester-Chesterfield (1E40 1735 Paignton-York)

Tuesday 6th August 1985

45111 Luton-Leicester (1P06 0423 St Pancras-Leicester)
45104 Leicester-Leeds via Notts (1E05 0740 Leicester-Leeds)
DMU Leeds-Huddersfield (1041 Leeds-Marsden)
47408 Huddersfield-York (1E08 0921 Bangor-Newcastle)
45123 York-Leeds (1M26 1255 Scarborough-Bangor)
45060 Leeds-Newcastle (1E99 1114 Bangor-Newcastle)
45107 Newcastle-Huddersfield (1M19 1750 Newcastle-Liverpool)
47106 Huddersfield-Leeds (1E93 1703 Holyhead-York)
31443 Leeds-Selby (2E70 1935 Lancaster-Hull)
DMU Selby-Doncaster (2145 York-Doncaster)
DMU Doncaster-Sheffield (2249 Doncaster-Sheffield)
45104 Sheffield-Bedford (1M10 2352 Sheffield-St Pancras)

Wednesday 6th August 1986

47563 Luton-Bedford (1F10 0427 St Pancras-Leicester)
45029 Bedford-Derby (1P07 0606 Bedford-Derby)
HST Derby-York (0715 Birmingham NS-Newcastle)
45135 York-Leeds (1O09 0812 Newcastle=Poole)
45115 Leeds-Huddersfield (1M58 0820 Newcastle-Llandudno)
45128 Huddersfield-Scarborough (1E79 1003 Liverpool-Scarborough)
45128 Scarborough-Dewsbury (1M75 1353 Scarboriugh-Liverpool)
45112 Dewsbury-York (1E74 1403 Liverpool-Scarborough)
45113 York-Leeds (1M77 1553 Scarborough-Liverpool)
47532 Leeds-York (1E63 1040 Poole-Newcastle)
45112 York-Scarborough (2P20 1810 York-Scarborough)
45112 Scarborough-Leeds (1M80 1958 Scarborough-Holyhead)
DMU Leeds-Sheffield (2146 Leeds-Sheffield)
45106 Sheffield-Luton (1M10 2355 Sheffield-St Pancras.

 

[D1537]

Friday 7 August 1987

47565 Coventry-Wolverhampton (1M88 0625 Poole-Manchester)
43096+43098 Wolverhampton-B'ham NS (1V55)
47377 B'ham NS-Cheltenham (1Z42 1103 Derby-Bristol relief)
47532 Cheltenham-Derby (1E65 1225 Bristol-York relief)
47281 Derby-Nottingham (1M51 1121 Blackpool-Nottingham)
47316 Nottingham-Blackpool N (1M26 1544 Nottingham-Blackpool)
47316 Blackpool N-Nottingham (1M54 1944 Blackpool-Nottingham)
47450 Nottingham-Nuneaton (1O30 2205 York-Portsmouth)

 

[Sultan1056]

Saturday 7th August 1976

A family holiday to St Ives and I had persuaded my Dad to travel via London to reach our destination. The first loco may have been rather disappointing but the second certainly wasn’t. WESTERN RELIANCE would become my highest mileage Class 52! (299 miles if you are interested).

47542 York-Kings Cross (1910 Aberdeen-Kings Cross)
D1068 Paddington-St Erth (0730 Paddington-Penzance)
W51575+51584 St Erth-St Ives (1400 St Erth-St Ives)

Monday 7th August 1978

47525 York-Selby (0800 York-Kings Cross)
31168 Selby-York (0812 Doncaster-York)
40197 York-Darlington (0848 Doncaster-Edinburgh)
47004 Darlington-York (1001 Newcastle-Liverpool LS)
40138 York-Darlington (1010 Liverpool LS-Newcastle)
43061+43071 Darlington-York (1110 Edinburgh-Kings Cross)
47320 York-Darlington (0850 Plymouth-Edinburgh)
43078+43079 Darlington-York (1310 Edinburgh-Kings Cross)
47430 York-Darlington (1325 Kings Cross-Newcastle)
47549 Darlington-York (1616 Newcastle-Kings Cross)
DMU York-Scarborough (1738 Leeds-Scarborough)
40108 Scarborough-York (1920 Scarborough-Wakefield W)

Thursday 7th August 1980

After spending the previous afternoon and evening covering the Portsmouth-Bristol services I found myself on the Waterloo-Weymouth Mail trains again. And again with having little sleep I missed the Eastleigh stop and awoke in Bournemouth. It didn’t really cost me anything because I soon picked up a couple of required 33s before I headed back to York for a laundry change. Less than three hours at home and I was heading back to London, aiming for the 2300 Paddington-Bristol which today was hauled by 50046.

73113 Basingstoke-Eastleigh (2252 Waterloo-Weymouth)
33110 Eastleigh-Southampton C (2252 Waterloo-Weymouth)
33112 Southampton C-Eastleigh (2238 Weymouth-Waterloo)
73113 Eastleigh-Woking (2238 Weymouth-Waterloo)
73111 Woking-Bournemouth (0245 Waterloo-Bournemouth)
7701+7715+7821 Bournemouth-Southampton C (0552 Bournemouth-Waterloo)
33004 Southampton C-Salisbury (0553 Portsmouth H-Bristol TM)
33020 Salisbury-Southampton C (0653 Bristol TM-Portsmouth H)
7827+7853 Southampton C-Basingstoke (0812 Bournemouth-Waterloo)
50011 Basingstoke-Waterloo (0737 Exeter St D-Waterloo)
S53+56 1130 Waterloo-Bank
55004 Kings Cross-Doncaster (1205 Kings Cross-Hull)
47421 Doncaster-York (1220 Kings Cross-York)
55015 York-Kings Cross (1810 York-Kings Cross)
50046 Paddington-Bristol TM (2300 Paddington-Bristol TM)

 

[Kirkoswald]

07/08/80

86033 00.15 Crewe - Mallaig (Crewe - Mossend)
????? 00.15 Crewe - Mallaig (Mossend - Cowlairs)
????? 00.15 Crewe - Mallaig (Cowlairs - Queen Street)

We were in a sleeper and, having imbibed at Crewe, were asleep until Craigendoran so if anyone can advise locos for the Mossend - Cowlairs and Cowlairs - Queen Street legs I'd be very grateful.

27042 00.15 Crewe - Mallaig (now a portion of 06.00 Queen Street - Mallaig)
27203 06.00 Queen Street - Mallaig (Fort William - Mallaig)

Ferry 12.30 Mallaig - Kyle of Lochalsh

At the time it wasn't obligatory to travel via Armadale and then bus to Kyleakin, there was a direct sailing 12.30 Thursday/Friday only.

26042 17.55 Kyle of Lochalsh - Inverness.

We paid the supplement (£2? I think) to travel in the ex Caledonian Saloon No 41.
Originally built 1893. though much modified since, it was well worth the extra. The hostess providing a commentary was English, Lancastrian I think. Apparently the Scottish lady she had replaced had too strong an accent to be understood by Americans.

40167 23.50 Inverness - Stirling

 

[xotGD]

Saturday 7th August 1976

A family holiday to St Ives and I had persuaded my Dad to travel via London to reach our destination. The first loco may have been rather disappointing but the second certainly wasn’t. WESTERN RELIANCE would become my highest mileage Class 52! (299 miles if you are interested).

We were on holiday in St Ives a couple of weeks after you. I definitely saw Westerns - I even wrote the names down - but I will never know if I had any for haulage.

 

[Sultan1056]

We were on holiday in St Ives a couple of weeks after you. I definitely saw Westerns - I even wrote the names down - but I will never know if I had any for haulage.

That’s a shame that you cannot remember if you were hauled by any. This reminds me of my first family holiday to Newquay in 1971. My older brother had taken me spotting sometime in late 1970/early 1971 so I was soon able to identify several types of locomotive. I was however intrigued by the different types of locos that could be seen away from home. In particular was a battered looking Warship in maroon livery. I remember its name “Druid”. For many years I thought that it must have been at Bristol Temple Meads. It pulled up alongside us for sometime as we waited to change trains. However after going through some family possessions after my Mum passed away I found a post card that I had sent to my Gran. I could now work out the exact date that we travelled. It would have been the Friday 20th August evening / Saturday 21st August morning. I could then work out the trains we had travelled on. These would have been 1820 Newcastle-Penzance and the 2028 Manchester Piccadilly-Newquay. I then realised that I had seen Druid at Plymouth rather than Bristol. Furthermore I strongly suspect that D815, as I now know its identity, was probably waiting to re-engine my train to Newquay. However unless someone can confirm this I will never know if I had a Warship for haulage on the mainline.

 

[Kirkoswald]

08/08/80

Having had 40167 on the 23.50 (7th) Inverness - Queen Street as far as Stirling we took the Edinburgh portion forward for what then became a very disjointed and disrupted day. My travelling companion became separated from his luggage which we then pursued up the ECML, breaking the journey several times in order to enquire and retrieve. This he eventually did at Peterborough that afternoon.

We did however achieve two planned elements of the day. We travelled past Toton on The Master Cutler which (I think) was the only passenger service so routed at the time. Also the deliberate inclusion of the only class 03 service train move at Ipswich in the small hours.

26037 05.55 Stirling - Edinburgh (portion off the 23.50 Inverness - Queen Street)
47206 07.02 Edinburgh - Inverkeithing (Aberdeen service)
DMU 07.xx Inverkeithing - Haymarket
47710 08.18 Haymarket - Edinburgh (ex Queen Street)
40129 08.55 Edinburgh - Haymarket (Aberdeen service)
43092/43110 09.15 Edinburgh - Newcastle
45021 11.40 Newcastle - Darlington
47421 12.39 Darlington - York
43059/43xxx 13.36 York - Doncaster
43096/43xxx 14.24 Doncaster - Peterborough
55018 15.41 Peterborough - Kings Cross
45121 17.20 St Pancras - Alfreton and Mansfield Parkway (via Toton)
45120 19.33 Alfreton and Mansfield Parkway - Nottingham
DMU 20.xx Nottingham - Grantham
55011 21.19 Grantham - Peterborough
31321 23.20 Peterborough - Ipswich
03179 Shunting the above onto the Norwich - Liverpool Street service.

 

[Sultan1056]

Friday 8th August 1975

46038 York-Plymouth (2120 Newcastle-Newquay)
47474 Plymouth-Newquay (2120 Newcastle-Newquay)

Tuesday 8th August 1978

47459 York-Selby (0800 York-Kings Cross)
45074 Selby-York (0812 Doncaster-York)
45066 York-Sheffield (0800 Newcastle-Bristol TM)
31149+31156 Sheffield-York (0740 Cardiff C-Newcastle)
47518 York-Darlington (1050 Kings Cross-Newcastle)
47138 Darlington-York (1335 Newcastle-Swansea)
47466 York-Selby (1613 York-Kings Cross)
47545 Selby-York (1404 Kings Cross-York)
DMU York-Scarborough (1624 Sheffield-Scarborough)
31175 Scarborough-Seamer (1844 Scarborough-Sheffield)
40199 Seamer-York (1920 Scarborough-Wakefield W)

Friday 8th August 1980

I worked my way out of South Wales after a good morning chasing 37s. In the evening I continued on towards Birmingham to get myself into a good position to cover class 40s working the Saturday services in North Wales. However in retrospect it looks like that I’ve started Duff bashing!

37268 Bristol TM-Swansea (0124 Bristol TM-Milford Haven)
37182 Swansea-Carmarthen (0124 Bristol TM-Milford Haven)
37191 Carmarthen-Milford Haven (0124 Bristol TM-Milford Haven)
37191 Milford Haven-Carmarthen (0730 Milford Haven-Swansea)
37186 Carmarthen-Swansea (0830 Milford Haven-Swansea)
43054+43055 Swansea-Cardiff C (1045 Swansea-Paddington)
25245 Cardiff C-Newport (1150 Cardiff C-Crewe)
31132 Newport-Bristol TM (1210 Cardiff C-Portsmouth H)
33016 Bristol TM-Salisbury (1210 Cardiff C-Portsmouth H)
50014 Salisbury-Sherborne (1310 Waterloo-Exeter St D)
50008 Sherborne-Basingstoke (1420 Exeter St D-Waterloo)
1131 Basingstoke-Reading (1726 Basingstoke-Reading)
47142 Reading-Didcot (1730 Paddington-Banbury)
47076 Didcot-Oxford (1733 Paddington-Oxford)
47234 Oxford-Reading (1522 Liverpool LS-Poole)
47250 Reading-Cheltenham Spa (1950 Paddington-Cheltenham Spa)
47008 Cheltenham Spa-Birmingham NS (2130 Bristol TM-Edinburgh)

Saturday 8th August 1981

I was heading for Edinburgh with a Deltic but first the distraction of a big NB 37 on the Newcastle-Yarmouth.

37173 York-Doncaster (0835 Newcastle-Yarmouth)
55022 Doncaster-Edinburgh (0940 Kings Cross-Edinburgh)

Friday 8th August 1988

I had been at work in London and was planning to catch the 1730 to York. By now my red pen was in semi-retirement, however I dusted it down and delaying my return home I had “The Badger” for the first time.

89001 Kings Cross-Peterborough (1736 Kings Cross-Peterborough)

 

[Kirkoswald]

09/08/80

Having had the 03179 move at Ipswich, on the 23.20 ex Peterborough service, we continued into and back out of Liverpool Street in darkness, prior to our main object of the day photographing the remaining Class 03 duties in East Anglia. We had heard rumours of their impending demise.

47117 02.xx Ipswich - Liverpool Street (service ex Norwich)
47156 04.30 Liverpool Street - Ipswich

DMUs Ipswich - Lowestoft - Norwich - Yarmouth - Norwich (11 different 03's photted).

31134 13.16 Norwich - March
37086 15.59 Ely - Kings Lynn
37086 17.30 Kings Lynn - Liverpool Street
87032 20.30 Euston - Crewe

This was the last day of our 1980 ALR so, as the BBC used to say, there will now be a short intermission....

 

[Sultan1056]

Friday 9th August 1974

46050 York-Plymouth (2120 Newcastle-Newquay)
47490 Plymouth-Newquay (2120 Newcastle-Newquay)

Wednesday 9th August 1978

47547 York-Selby (0800 York-Kings Cross)
47523 Selby-York (0812 Doncaster-York)
40057 York-Darlington (0848 Doncaster-Edinburgh)
47522 Darlington-York (0920 Newcastle-Kings Cross)
45057 York-Sheffield (1010 Newcastle-Cardiff C)
47484 Sheffield-Chesterfield (1300 Sheffield-St Pancras)
45114 Chesterfield-Sheffield (1053 St Pancras-Sheffield)
DMU Sheffield-Doncaster (1245 Manchester Pic-Doncaster)
47458 Doncaster-York (1225 Kings Cross-York)
47257 York-Sheffield (1335 Newcastle-Swansea)
45122 Sheffield-Chesterfield (1150 Glasgow C-Nottingham)
45005 Chesterfield-Darlington (1139 Poole-Newcastle)
55005 Darlington-York (1700 Edinburgh-Kings Cross)

Saturday 9th August 1980

My plan was to head into North Wales however I didn’t quite get there, managing to pick up three required 40s without the need of visiting the Principality. In the evening I went to Shrewsbury to cover the 25s on the returning service from Aberystwyth. I nearly came to grief here because the train was running late and I only just made the last train out of Wolverhampton by a couple of minutes.

86210 Birmingham NS-Wolverhampton (2130 Bristol TM-Edinburgh)
85014 Wolverhampton-Stafford (2142 Bristol TM-Glasgow C)
81005 Stafford-Carlisle (2215 Euston-Carlisle)
81005 Carlisle-Preston (0120 Stranraer H-Blackpool N)
M50477+50529 Preston-Manchester Vic (0613 Carnforth-Manchester Vic)
40098 Manchester Vic-Preston (0845 Manchester Vic-Glasgow C)
81022 Preston-Warrington BQ (0903 Blackpool N-Crewe) Relief
M50629+51907 Warrington BQ-Chester (0940 Manchester Vic-Llandudno)
40134 Chester-Crewe (0935 Llandudno-Euston)
40109 Crewe-Chester (1118 Crewe-Holyhead)
47438 Chester-Crewe (1009 Holyhead-Euston)
40191 Crewe-Chester (1418 Crewe-Holyhead)
40036 Chester-Manchester Vic (1342 Llandudno-York)
47012 Manchester Vic-Bolton (1342 Manchester Vic-Glasgow C)
40098 Bolton-Manchester Vic (1320 Glasgow C-Manchester Vic)
86256 Manchester Pic-Crewe (1812 Manchester Pic-Euston)
25220 Crewe-Shrewsbury (1928 Crewe-Cardiff C)
25263+25299 Shrewsbury-Wolverhampton (1755 Aberystwyth-Wolverhampton)
86225 Wolverhampton-Crewe (1900 Paddington-Manchester Pic)

Sunday 9th August 1981

55022 Edinburgh-Kings Cross (2035 Aberdeen-Kings Cross) ex8/8
via Carlisle,Stockton & Hertford N
55016 Kings Cross-York via Hertford N (1005 Kings Cross-York)
43063+43094 York-Newcastle (1100 Kings Cross-Aberdeen)
55004 Newcastle-York (1457 Newcastle-Kings Cross)
55021 York-Doncaster (1457 Newcastle-Kings Cross)
55022 Doncaster-York (1605 Kings Cross-York)

 

[D1537]

Saturday 9 August 1986

A weird old Summer Saturday chasing alleged big 47s around that never turned up.

47409 Coventry-Reading (1O34)
47148 Reading-Paddington (1F27)

148 was a bonus, but the alleged 47314 on the next train was ...

47646 Paddington-Oxford 1F20
47534 Oxford-B'ham NS 1M14
47373 B'ham NS-Burton 1E78

I can't remember exactly what happened here but we bailed off 373 to go back to Brum for something that didn't happen so ...

150xxx Burton-B'ham NS
47529 B'ham NS-Banbury 1O12
47085 Banbury-B'ham NS 1M40
47588 B'ham NS-Coventry 1V99

Sunday 9 August 1987

47544 Nuneaton-Crewe 1D58
47606 Crewe-B'ham NS 1G12 via Salop
56016 B'ham NS-Nuneaton 1A46
150103 Nuneaton-B'ham NS
47329 B'ham NS-Derby 1E64
47624 Derby-B'ham NS 1V94
47456 B'ham NS-Coventry 1V99

 

[Sultan1056]

Friday 10th August 1973

The family holiday to our favoured destination. Tonight the train was hauled by green liveried 1895 (47376), my first Duff for haulage. At the time it was allocated to Thornaby and more at home hauling oil tanks than coaching stock. 1895 gave way at Plymouth to Peak 47 (45116).

1895 York-Plymouth (2120 Newcastle-Newquay)
47 Plymouth-Newquay (2120 Newcastle-Newquay)

Tuesday 10th August 1976

W51575+51584 Carbis Bay-St Erth (1013 St Ives-St Erth)
47258 Hayle-St Erth (0740 Leeds-Penzance)
W51575+51584 St Erth-Carbis Bay (1625 St Erth-St Ives)

Wednesday 10th August 1977

47524 York-Newcastle (1900 Kings Cross-Newcastle)

Sunday 10th August 1980

Another disappointing night for me on the Preston-Crewe drags with 47463 appearing on my train. I decided to leave the train at Rugby and drop back to Birmingham where the daytime Euston services were due to be dragged to Nuneaton. Things didn’t improve for me with another 47/4 making an appearance. I decided to cut my losses and moved onto Skegness. After a successful evening there I headed into London and onto Paddington. I was intending to head west on the Down Midnight, however a required 50017 was turned out on the Sundays only 2300 to Plymouth. There was a problem; the train was made up of air-conditioned stock, it was wedged and it’s scheduled arrival into Plymouth would be around 4am. I could have left the train at Reading but didn’t want to take the risk of being bowled by a Duff on the “Down Midnight”. So another uncomfortable night with little sleep!

81008 Crewe-Preston (2050 Euston-Stranraer H)
47463+(86210) Preston-Crewe (2200 Stranraer H-Euston)
via Manchester Pic & Styal
86210 Crewe-Rugby (2200 Stranraer H-Euston)
Bus Rugby-Birmingham International
013 Birmingham Int-Birmingham NS (0854 Birmingham Int-Birmingham NS)
47538+(87018) Birmingham NS-Nuneaton (1000 Wolverhampton-Euston)
87018 Nuneaton-Euston (1000 Wolverhampton-Euston)
55012 Kings Cross-Grantham via Hertford N (1405 Kings Cross-York)
E50030+50037+51286 Grantham-Skegness (1448 Nottingham-Skegness)
20042+20087 Skegness-Boston (1815 Skegness-Derby)
20070+20077 Boston-Sleaford (1830 Skegness-Leicester)
37103 Sleaford-Grantham (1853 Skegness-Cambridge)
55012 Grantham-Kings Cross (1910 York-Kings Cross)
50017 Paddington-Plymouth via Bath & Bristol TM (2300 Paddington-Plymouth)

Monday 10th August 1981

55022 York-Selby (2019 York-Kings Cross)
55015 Selby-York (1740 Kings Cross-York)

 

[Harvester]

Tuesday 10th August 1999

66013 21:00 Crewe-Plymouth (‘Eclipse Venturer’ - overnight charter)

One of many specials that ran to Devon and Cornwall for the solar eclipse. Returned, same loco and stock, on Wed 11th (16:41 ex Plymouth).

 

[D1537]

Monday 10 August 1987

310068 Coventry-B'ham NS
47613 B'ham NS-Cheltenham 1V59
47293 Cheltenham-Derby 1E67 (relief)
47316 Derby-Stockport 1M26
87030 Stockport-Nuneaton 1A77

 

[Sultan1056]

Thursday 11th August 1977

A spotting trip to Glasgow via Dundee with the highlight being a pair of class 27s on the first Dundee-Glasgow service.

47413 Newcastle-Dundee (2000 Kings Cross-Aberdeen)
27005+27012 Dundee-Perth (0650 Dundee-Glasgow QS)
DMU Perth-Edinburgh (0758 Perth-Edinburgh)
DMU Edinburgh-Cowdenbeath (1023 Edinburgh-Cowdenbeath)
DMU Cowdenbeath-Haymarket (1110 Cowdenbeath-Edinburgh)
27106+27112 Haymarket-Glasgow QS (1200 Edinburgh-Glasgow QS)
EMU Glasgow QS-Springburn (1250 Milngavie-Springburn)
EMU Springburn-Glasgow QS (1636 Springburn-Helensburgh C)
EMU Glasgow C-Glasgow C via Hamilton & Motherwell (1713 Glasgow C circular)
27206+27207 Glasgow QS-Edinburgh (1830 Glasgow QS-Edinburgh)
47433 Edinburgh-York (1630 Aberdeen-York)

Saturday 11th August 1979

A typical mixed bag of new engines on a summer Saturday.

55005 York-Doncaster (0606 York-Kings Cross)
E50635 Doncaster-Sheffield (0600 Hull-Manchester Pic)
31237 Sheffield-Chesterfield (0747 Sheffield-Skegness)
31250 Chesterfield-Sheffield (0834 Chesterfield-Skegness)
37195 Sheffield-York (0730 Birmingham NS-Newcastle)
40009 York-Leeds (0935 Newcastle-Blackpool N)
40182 Leeds-York (0910 Blackpool N-Newcastle)
47534 York-Leeds (1128 Newcastle-Liverpool LS)
E50198+50204 Leeds-Selby (1220 Manchester Vic-Hull)
37219 Selby-York (0915 Yarmouth-Newcastle)
55005 York-Doncaster (1550 York-Kings Cross)
55011 Doncaster-York (1405 Kings Cross-York)
45037 York-Leeds (1749 York-Liverpool LS)
43100+43101 Leeds-Wakefield W (1815 Bradford Exchange-Kings Cross)
45034 Wakefield W-Leeds (1026 Penzance-Bradford Exchange)
31255 Leeds-New Pudsey (1026 Penzance-Bradford Exchange)
E50018+50134+51210 New Pudsey-Leeds (2000 Bradford Exchange-Leeds)
47401 Leeds-York (1905 Liverpool LS-York)

Monday 11th August 1980

ALR Day 9. Having travelled overnight to Plymouth with my 45th class 50, today I scored with my 46th & 47th. 50006 was substituting for an HST. After nine consecutive overnights I decided to head back to York for a night in bed.

45012 Plymouth-Exeter St D (0626 Plymouth-Liverpool LS)
50008 Exeter St D-Andover (0737 Exeter St D-Waterloo)
50011 Andover-Gillingham (0910 Waterloo-Exeter St D)
33030 Gillingham-Andover (0940 Exeter St D-Waterloo)
50009 Andover-Salisbury (1110 Waterloo-Exeter St D)
33001 Salisbury-Bristol TM (1215 Portsmouth H-Bristol TM)
50006 Bristol TM-Paddington via Bath (1520 Bristol TM-Paddington)
55012 Kings Cross-York (1805 Kings Cross-York)

Saturday 11th August 1984

47611 York-Leeds (0735 Newcastle-Blackpool N)
45137 Leeds-York (0905 Liverpool LS-Scarborough)

 

[D1537]

Monday 11 August 1986

87014 Coventry-B'ham NS 1G27
47242 B'ham NS-Sheffield (1E51, relief)
47207 Sheffield-B'ham NS (1V06, relief)
47242 B'ham NS-Cheltenham (1V18, relief)
43021+43016 Cheltenham-B'ham NS (1E13)
47479 B'ham NS-Stafford (1M23)
47590 Stafford-Coventry (1V99)

 

[AJM580]

Saturday 11 Aug 1984

47440 Norwich - Ipswich (1C21 0642 Norwich - Liverpool Street)
47518 Ipswich - Peterborough (1S85 0717 Harwich PQ - Glasgow)
47200 Peterborough - Norwich (1E71 0802 Manchester Picc - Great Yarmouth)
37107 Norwich - Great Yarmouth (1E71 0802 Manchester Picc - Great Yarmouth)
37107 Great Yarmouth - Norwich (1M74 1412 Great Yarmouth - Manchester Picc)
47200 Norwich - Peterborough (1M74 1412 Great Yarmouth - Manchester Picc)
31416 & 31423 Peterborough - Norwich (1E80 1618 Birmingham NS - Norwich)

 

[xotGD]

Saturday 11 Aug 1984

47440 Norwich - Ipswich (1C21 0642 Norwich - Liverpool Street)
47518 Ipswich - Peterborough (1S85 0717 Harwich PQ - Glasgow)
47200 Peterborough - Norwich (1E71 0802 Manchester Picc - Great Yarmouth)
37107 Norwich - Great Yarmouth (1E71 0802 Manchester Picc - Great Yarmouth)
37107 Great Yarmouth - Norwich (1M74 1412 Great Yarmouth - Manchester Picc)
47200 Norwich - Peterborough (1M74 1412 Great Yarmouth - Manchester Picc)
31416 & 31423 Peterborough - Norwich (1E80 1618 Birmingham NS - Norwich)

Strangely, the Class 37 gen site has the following entry for 37107 on this day:

1Z29 1805 Nottingham - Nelson ADEX drag failed DMUs Between Nottingham - Preston with 37084.

 

[Magdalia]

37107 Norwich - Great Yarmouth (1E71 0802 Manchester Picc - Great Yarmouth)
37107 Great Yarmouth - Norwich (1M74 1412 Great Yarmouth - Manchester Picc)

Strangely, the Class 37 gen site has the following entry for 37107 on this day:

1Z29 1805 Nottingham - Nelson ADEX drag failed DMUs Between Nottingham - Preston with 37084.

Try 37103 for the Norwich-Yarmouth and return working not 37107.

 

[Sultan1056]

Thursday 12th August 1976

47029 Hayle-St Erth (0740 Leeds-Penzance)
W51575+51584 St Erth-Carbis Bay (1625 St Erth-St Ives)

Saturday 12th August 1978

37039 York-Sheffield via Leeds (0821 York-Tenby)
40023 Sheffield-Retford (0845 Manchester Pic-Skegness)
25163+25307 Retford-Lincoln C (0919 Manchester Pic-Yarmouth)
31286 Lincoln C-Sleaford (0919 Manchester Pic-Yarmouth)
DMU Sleaford-Nottingham (1232 Skegness-Leicester)
20141+20158 Nottingham-Derby (1302 Skegness-Derby)
25141 Derby-Nottingham (1302 Llandudno-Nottingham)
25132+25147 Nottingham-Long Eaton (1415 Yarmouth-Derby)
45114 Long Eaton-Derby (1612 St Pancras-Derby)
47482 Derby-Sheffield (1701 St Pancras-Sheffield)
47293 Sheffield-Leeds (1505 Paignton-Leeds)
E50168 Leeds-York (2200 Leeds-York)

Tuesday 12th August 1980

ALR Day 10. After spending a night at home I intended to travel to London on the 0805 service, however I had difficulty waking up. Missing this train I decided to travel in the opposite direction to Edinburgh. From here I took non boilered 27027 to Perth where I dropped onto a pair of 26s to Inverness. I should have found myself in a little trouble here because at the head of the 1930 Euston was a Duff. I had resigned myself to taking it to Perth, however about 20 minutes before departure the Duff was detached and disappeared southwards. In its place the pair of 26s that I had had previously were coupled up. IIRC the Duff had gone to rescue the “Clansman” which had failed somewhere south of Newtonmore. At Perth I let the 26s go and joined 40167 on the 2250 to Euston. I found a compartment to myself and crashed out, oblivious that the loco had failed at Coatbridge.

55007 York-Edinburgh (0550 Kings Cross-Aberdeen)
27027 Edinburgh-Perth (1247 Edinburgh-Perth)
26015+26045 Perth-Inverness (1310 Glasgow QS-Inverness)
27003 Inverness-Nairn (1739 Inverness-Aberdeen)
27021 Nairn-Inverness (1554 Aberdeen-Inverness)
26015+26045 Inverness-Perth (1930 Inverness-Euston)
40167 Perth-Coatbridge Loco Failure (2250 Perth-Euston)

Wednesday 12th August 1981

During the school holidays the Scarborough Spa Steam Train was regularly running from York. After returning from Scarborough the kettle would be removed in favour of a diesel which would haul the train to Leeds as an additional service. Today York kicked out Deltic 17.

55017 York-Leeds (2100 York-Leeds) Additional
47486 Leeds-York (2040 Liverpool LS-York)

Sunday 12th August 1984

47283 York-Scarborough (0855 Sheffield-Scarborough)
47243 Scarborough-York (2100 Scarborough-York)

 

[Sultan1056]

Friday 13th August 1976

Whilst on the family holiday I managed to persuade everyone that we should visit Penzance. The rest of the family were reluctant but gave in to my wishes. The time we spent there gives an indication of how impressed they were with the town but I wasn’t bothered. The train out of Penzance was hauled by WESTERN LADY, the last time I had a Class 52 for haulage in BR service.

W51575+51584 St Ives-St Erth (1013 St Ives-St Erth)
50012 St Erth-Penzance (0840 Plymouth-Penzance)
D1048 Penzance-St Erth (1205 Penzance-Paddington) Relief
W51575+51584 St Erth-St Ives (1245 St Erth-St Ives)

Saturday 13th August 1977

A very early bashing trip chasing Deltics scoring with three new!

55002 York-Doncaster (0830 Newcastle-Kings Cross)
55003 Doncaster-York (0900 Kings Cross-Newcastle)
47423 York-Doncaster (1048 Newcastle-Kings Cross)
55014 Doncaster-York (1100 Kings Cross-Edinburgh)

Wednesday 13th August 1980

I arrived into Euston, unaware of the reason for my late arrival. It was not until I bumped into another basher who had travelled on the same train that I realised that 40167 had failed at Coatbridge and was assisted by a pair of 37s to Mossend Yard. From London I made my way to Swansea to cover a Pembroke Dock service that was being loco hauled vice DMU.

37056+37145+(40167) Coatbridge-Mossend Yd (2250 Perth-Euston)
86217 Mossend Yd-Euston (2250 Perth-Euston)
50008 Waterloo-Salisbury (0910 Waterloo-Exeter St D)
33019 Salisbury-Bristol TM (1015 Portsmouth H-Cardiff C)
31420 Bristol TM-Cardiff C (1015 Portsmouth H-Cardiff C)
43011+43047 Cardiff C-Swansea (1215 Paddington-Swansea)
37268 Swansea-Carmarthen (1610 Swansea-Pembroke Dock)
37185 Carmarthen-Pembroke Dock (1610 Swansea-Pembroke Dock)
37185 Pembroke Dock-Swansea avoiding Carmarthen (1835 Pembroke Dock-Swansea)
37182 Swansea-Cardiff C (2125 Swansea-Bristol TM)
37176 Cardiff C-Bristol TM (2125 Swansea-Bristol TM)