Back in the day...

[Falcon1200]

Sunday 3rd July 1983
31257 + 31273 1548 Paddington-Manchester Picc (Reading-Oxford)

 

[D1537]

Saturday 4 July 1987
86435 1V36 Rugby-Coventry
47543 1V36 Coventry-B'ham NS
47610 1O02 B'ham NS-Oxford

Now we have some conflicting gen, that 47356 is either doing 1O03 south from Reading, or going north on 1E61. The problem here is that 1O02 doesn't stop at Reading, and if you wait for 1O03 behind at Oxford, then that misses 1E61 at Reading. So the only option to cover both bases here is ....

50017 1F17 Oxford-Reading

And of course it's going south, so we could have stayed on 47610 (or indeed waited for 1O03). Standard.

47356 1O03 Reading-Poole
47355 1M23 Poole-Stoke
86408 1V99 Stoke-B'ham NS
86419 1A90 B'ham NS-Rugby

 

[D1511]

Wednesday 4th July 1984

2O08 07.40 Edinburgh - Glasgow QS 47378 xos BS Haymarket - Glasgow QS
1A27 11.35 Glasgow C - Stranraer 47234 xos CF Glasgow C - Paisley GS (thanks @D6130 )
2O49 17.15 Glasgow QS - Edinburgh 47378 xos BS Glasgow QS - Edinburgh

I was reasonably smug pulling into Waverley behind 47378, but the resident platform neds were quick to tell me that 47305 xos TE had worked 1S15 and 47310 xos IM went to Dundee and back that day. 305 didn't elude me for long, but I never got 310 in the end.....

 

[D6130]

1A27 11.35 Glasgow C - Carlisle 47234

Presumably that should read Glasgow C - Stranraer?

 

[D1511]

Presumably that should read Glasgow C - Stranraer?

Thanks, my scruffy notebook actually says Stranraer, and the headcode should have alerted me to my error, so apologies for the mistranscription from notebook to thread. Corrected now.

 

[Falcon1200]

Monday 4th July 1983
45137 1307 Paddington-Liverpool LS (Oxford-Birmingham NS)
86323 1307 ditto (Birmingham NS-Wolverhampton)
47536 1603 Bristol TM-Newcastle (Birmingham NS-Derby)
20183 + 20187 1837 Skegness-Burton (Beeston-Derby)
47509 2125 Derby-Bristol TM (to Birmingham NS)
86009 2124 Bristol TM-Glasgow C/Edinburgh (Birmingham NS-Carstairs)

 

[Falcon1200]

Tuesday 5th July 1983
47703 2124 Mon Bristol TM-Glasgow C/Edinburgh (Carstairs-Edinburgh)
27042 0625 Edinburgh-Dundee (to Haymarket)
27050 2350 Inverness-Edinburgh (from Haymarket)
47712 0700 Edinburgh-Glasgow QS
47708 0830 Glasgow QS-Edinburgh (to Haymarket)
27050 0917 Edinburgh-Dundee (Haymarket-Inverkeithing)
47703 0922 Edinburgh-Inverness (Inverkeithing-Perth)
47709 1128 Perth-Edinburgh (to Stirling)
27050 1417 Edinburgh-Dundee (to Haymarket)
27042 1321 Dundee-Edinburgh (from Haymarket)
47708 1530 Edinburgh-Glasgow QS
37012 1823 Glasgow QS-Oban (to Dumbarton C)
37191 1758 Oban-Glasgow QS (from Dumbarton C)
86247 2050 Carlisle-Perth (Motherwell-Mossend Yard)
27007 2050 ditto (Mossend Yard-Larbert)
27038 2238 Glasgow QS-Dundee (Larbert-Stirling)
47467 2310 Edinburgh-Inverness (from Stirling)

Showing how things have changed, a couple of weeks ago I again took a West Highland train out of Queen Street, not of course to get a (hopefully) new 37 but a required Class 153!

 

[D1537]

Saturday 5th July 1986
No messing about rushing around the country today, I have a new 47 out and it's very convenient.

47445 1M41 Stockport-Crewe
86009 1G00 Crewe-Wolverhampton
47624 1O01 Wolverhampton-B'ham NS
47322 1E66 B'ham NS-March
47633 1N13 March-Peterborough
47318 1E72 Peterborough-March
47577 1M68 March-Nuneaton (no idea what happened to 322 there!)
86413 1D66 Nuneaton-Crewe
47447 1V99 Crewe-Coventry

 

[xotGD]

Saturday 5th July 1986
No messing about rushing around the country today, I have a new 47 out and it's very convenient.

47445 1M41 Stockport-Crewe
86009 1G00 Crewe-Wolverhampton
47624 1O01 Wolverhampton-B'ham NS
47322 1E66 B'ham NS-March
47633 1N13 March-Peterborough
47318 1E72 Peterborough-March
47577 1M68 March-Nuneaton (no idea what happened to 322 there!)
86413 1D66 Nuneaton-Crewe
47447 1V99 Crewe-Coventry

I was also on 1E66 as far as Peterborough, and then boarded 1N13 as you were baling off. See post 1,188 upthread...

 

[Falcon1200]

Wednesday 6th July 1983
37183 0640 Inverness-Wick & Thurso (to Dingwall)
26042 0710 Inverness-Kyle (Dingwall-Achnasheen)
26032 0710 Kyle-Inverness (Achnasheen-Dingwall)
37114 0600 Wick & Thurso-Inverness (from Dingwall)
26035 + 26046 1048 Inverness-Aberdeen
47429 1350 Aberdeen-Edinburgh (to Haymarket)
47711 1730 Edinburgh-Glasgow QS
27036 1838 Stranraer-Glasgow C (from Prestwick)
86257 2050 Carlisle-Perth (Motherwell-Mossend Yard)
26026 2050 ditto (Mossend Yard-Larbert)
27038 2238 Glasgow QS-Dundee (Larbert-Stirling)

 

[D1537]

I was also on 1E66 as far as Peterborough, and then boarded 1N13 as you were baling off. See post 1,188 upthread...

The famous "crew change at March" bail. If I remember correctly this was the last year you could do this.

Sunday 6 July 1986
47491 1M34 Rugby-B'ham NS (via Nuneaton)
47104 1M34 B'ham NS-Manchester Picc (via Bescot)
47437 1V05 Manchester Picc-Wem

To this day the only time I've got off at Wem!

33037 1M73 Wem-Crewe
47619 1D46 Crewe-Chester
47050 1G12 Chester-B'ham NS
87031 1A79 B'ham NS-Rugby

 

[D1537]

Tuesday 7 July 1987
Wasn't going to be out on the trains until later in the week, got a phone call early in the morning though...

86410 1G23 Coventry-B'ham NS
31450 1Z43 B'ham NS-Cheltenham (yes, I know, but it was in a good cause)
47310 1E67 Cheltenham-Derby
43134+43025 1V78 Derby-B'ham NS
47324 1V83 B'ham NS-Gloucester (vice HST, generator set)
43010+43020 1E38 Gloucester-B'ham NS
310046 B'ham NS-Coventry

 

[SuspectUsual]

31450 1Z43 B'ham NS-Cheltenham (yes, I know, but it was in a good cause)

At least it was largely downhill

 

[D1537]

At least it was largely downhill

If I remember correctly it was something like an hour's connection at Cheltenham as well, so fairly safe...

 

[Harpo]

At least it was largely downhill

And July. Helps with the heat/traction selector setting

 

[Falcon1200]

Thursday 7th July 1983
47471 1930 Wed Inverness-Euston (Stirling-Mossend Yard)
85016 1930 ditto (from Mossend Yard)
47533 0850 Paddington-Oxford

 

[Falcon1200]

Friday 8th July 1983
47462 1307 Paddington-Liverpool LS (Oxford-Birmingham NS)
31294 1818 Birmingham NS-Norwich (to Hinckley)
31415 1645 Norwich-Birmingham NS (from Hinckley)
81022 2030 Euston-Holyhead (Birmingham NS-Crewe)

 

[SW Rover]

Saturday 9th July 1983
47500+(47286) 1A11 0150 Fishguard Harbour - Paddington (from Swindon)
47230 1M17 1945 Paddington - Wolverhampton (to Reading)

Tuesday 9th July 1985
47606 1A26 0857 Cardiff Cen - Paddington (Swindon - Didcot)
50027 1B42 1625 Paddington - Cheltenham Spa (Didcot - Swindon)

 

[D1537]

Wednesday 9 July 1986
For a while in this summer the Stoke-Llandudno loco and stock, instead of sitting by the seaside all day, sometimes filled in for a dmu. You had to get the gen first before going all the way there though! The trip down the Conwy Valley on the sharp curves and gradients was an excellent way of spending a few hours.

47472 1O03 Coventry-Banbury
47539 1M03 Banbury-Crewe
47518 1D54 Crewe-Llandudno Jc
47442 2D11 Llandudno Jc-Blaenau Ffestiniog
47442 2D18 Blaenau Ffestiniog-Llandudno Jc
47565 1A78 Llandudno Jc-Crewe
86244 1V99 Crewe-B'ham NS
47536 1V99 B'ham NS-Coventry

 

[Falcon1200]

Saturday 9th July 1983
86241 0045 Crewe-Manchester Picc
31327 0210 Manchester Picc-Cleethorpes (to Lincoln C)
47224 0732 Sheffield-Skegness (to Chesterfield)
37013 0805 Chesterfield-Scarborough (to Rotherham)
31406 0729 Bradford-Weymouth (Rotherham-Sheffield)
40082 0815 Manchester Picc-Yarmouth (Sheffield-Milepost 93 on the ECML where it failed)
31131 0815 ditto MP 93 -Peterborough
40195 1320 Skegness-Manchester Picc (Gainsborough Lea Road-Sheffield)
37061 1359 Blackpool N-Sheffield (from Rotherham)
45126 1404 Scarborough-Luton (Sheffield-Chesterfield)
37169 1053 Weymouth-Bradford (Chesterfield-Sheffield)
45001 0950 Newquay-Newcastle (Sheffield-Rotherham)
47559 1840 Manchester Picc-Paddington (Birmingham NS-Oxford)

A very productive day!

 

[D1511]

Monday 9th July 1984

2O08 07.40 Edinburgh - Glasgow QS 47368 xos TE Haymarket - Glasgow QS
2O49 17.15 Glasgow QS - Edinburgh 47368 xos TE Glasgow QS - Bishopbriggs (sudden change of plan .....unit back to QS and a fast run to Central)
1M40 18.15 Glasgow C - Manchester Vic 81007 xe GW Glasgow C - Carstairs
1Z09 16.55 Oxenholme - Edinburgh 26003 xos HA/26007 xos HA Carstairs - Edinburgh

You beauty
Despite these being Haymarket engines, they almost always spent their time attached to HAAs full of powdered coal for Cockenzie PS, and were pretty rare even for us. My last 3 26s for haulage were all Haymarket ones based about a mile and a half from my house!

 

[D1511]

Tuesday 7 July 1987
Wasn't going to be out on the trains until later in the week, got a phone call early in the morning though...


47310 1E67 Cheltenham-Derby

What a delight to read that.....not! . (See post #6843 above!)

 

[xotGD]

What a delight to read that.....not! . (See post #6843 above!)

Even I had 47310!

See post 1434...

 

[D1511]

Even I had 47310!

See post 1434...

Oh not you as well!
Did you ever get 208 before Invergowrie though??

 

[D6130]

Oh not you as well!
Did you ever get 208 before Invergowrie though??

I had 208 before Invergowrie - about a week before - and it felt mighty creepy when news started to filter through to the office in Glasgow that fateful morning in the Autumn of 1979.

 

[D1511]

I had 208 before Invergowrie - about a week before - and it felt mighty creepy when news started to filter through to the office in Glasgow that fateful morning in the Autumn of 1979.

It was a really shocking event on a bit of line we all knew really well, and it was a DE driver and second man that were tragically killed.....the latter was just a young lad. I used to get a weird feeling seeing 25083 afterwards as well....which was the loco that had expired that it ran into the back of at 70mph.

 

[CW2]

Saturday 9th July 1983
86241 0045 Crewe-Manchester Picc
31327 0210 Manchester Picc-Cleethorpes (to Lincoln C)
47224 0732 Sheffield-Skegness (to Chesterfield)
37013 0805 Chesterfield-Scarborough (to Rotherham)
31406 0729 Bradford-Weymouth (Rotherham-Sheffield)
40082 0815 Manchester Picc-Yarmouth (Sheffield-Milepost 93 on the ECML where it failed)
31131 0815 ditto MP 93 -Peterborough
40195 1320 Skegness-Manchester Picc (Gainsborough Lea Road-Sheffield)
37061 1359 Blackpool N-Sheffield (from Rotherham)
45126 1404 Scarborough-Luton (Sheffield-Chesterfield)
37169 1053 Weymouth-Bradford (Chesterfield-Sheffield)
45001 0950 Newquay-Newcastle (Sheffield-Rotherham)
47559 1840 Manchester Picc-Paddington (Birmingham NS-Oxford)

A very productive day!

Once again we were on the same train, this time 40082 failing at Little Bytham.

Saturday 9th July 1983
86241 0045 Crewe-Manchester Picc
31327 0210 Manchester Picc-Cleethorpes (to Lincoln C)
47224 0732 Sheffield-Skegness (to Chesterfield)
37013 0805 Chesterfield-Scarborough (to Rotherham)
31406 0729 Bradford-Weymouth (Rotherham-Sheffield)
40082 0815 Manchester Picc-Yarmouth (Sheffield-Milepost 93 on the ECML where it failed)
31131 0815 ditto MP 93 -Peterborough
40195 1320 Skegness-Manchester Picc (Gainsborough Lea Road-Sheffield)
37061 1359 Blackpool N-Sheffield (from Rotherham)
45126 1404 Scarborough-Luton (Sheffield-Chesterfield)
37169 1053 Weymouth-Bradford (Chesterfield-Sheffield)
45001 0950 Newquay-Newcastle (Sheffield-Rotherham)
47559 1840 Manchester Picc-Paddington (Birmingham NS-Oxford)

A very productive day!

See post #1220.
I was also on the Manchester - Yarmouth with 40082 when it failed.

 

[D1511]

Once again we were on the same train, this time 40082 failing at Little Bytham.

See post #1220.
I was also on the Manchester - Yarmouth with 40082 when it failed.

I can't help wondering if you two would recognise each other if you met today......

 

[Falcon1200]

Once again we were on the same train, this time 40082 failing at Little Bytham.

I can't help wondering if you two would recognise each other if you met today......

Probably not, after 40-odd years of wear, tear and weathering!

Sunday 10th July 1983
47059 1548 Paddington-Manchester Picc (Reading-Oxford)

 

[D1537]

See post #1220.
I was also on the Manchester - Yarmouth with 40082 when it failed.

I went to Norwich with a 40 a few times that year (40080 and 40172 and I think another one but my moves books are mostly non-existent from that year, I'm going on photographs!) but that day I think I was cash challenged and had 40195 to Sheffield and then went back to the Midlands for ... something or other

I *think* this (usual instamatic quality) photo is 40080 at Norwich!