Falcon1200
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Now you are making me jealous, although 1979 wasn't too bad!
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Haymarket seemed to have a knack of acquiring traction from just about anywhere.
D6130
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....and so did Eastfield! Over the years, I've been hauled from Glasgow to Helensburgh by a Longsight 25, Perth to Glasgow by a Healey Mills 40 and Glasgow to Stranraer by an Immingham 47....among others.
Yes, certainly no complaints from us about what HA and ED sent out back in those days.
It certainly didn't harm to have Millerhill and Mossend/Motherwell available to provide them with spare locos when needed either.
All sorts of odds and sods turned up on passenger workings, so I think we were reasonably fortunate living where we did.
D1537
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Saturday 14 September 1985
47061 1O62 Derby-B'ham NS
31144+31261 1E66 B'ham NS-Peterborough
47312 1N13 Peterborough-Doncaster
dmu Doncaster-Sheffield
47061 1O86 Sheffield-B'ham NS
47089 1E32 B'ham NS-Derby
While I was determinedly chasing down 312, I missed two other required 47s, one of which arrived at Doncaster an hour after I left! Not sure how I didn't find out about it, but never mind.
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Falcon1200
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The same train yesterday and today, minus 42 years;
Thursday 15th September 1983
50004 + 50025 0918 Didcot-Paddington
47243 1610 Paddington-Oxford (from Reading)
Friday 16th September 1983
47478 + 50042 0918 Didcot-Paddington (to Reading)
50008 1707 Paddington-Hereford (Didcot-Oxford)
Why the same train was double-headed two days in a row is a mystery, to me anyway!
Thursday 15th September 1983
50004 + 50025 0918 Didcot-Paddington
47243 1610 Paddington-Oxford (from Reading)
Friday 16th September 1983
47478 + 50042 0918 Didcot-Paddington (to Reading)
50008 1707 Paddington-Hereford (Didcot-Oxford)
Why the same train was double-headed two days in a row is a mystery, to me anyway!
Strange. It looks like a test move but assuming it’s come ECS from Paddington at 08+xx (?) it would be a brave move to do that in middle of the peak.
A very unimpressive 2.5 miles in total today and tomorrow, 41 years ago.....but decent locos through prinny gardens!
Tuesday 18th Sep 1984
1C84 18.10 Edinburgh - Carstairs 37241 xot CF Edinburgh - Haymarket
2O49 17.15 Glasgow QS - Edinburgh 47247 xo BR Haymarket - Edinburgh
Wednesday 19th Sep 1984
1C84 18.10 Edinburgh - Carstairs 47323 xos TO Edinburgh - Haymarket
2O49 17.15 Glasgow QS - Edinburgh 47148 xb CF Haymarket - Edinburgh
Tuesday 18th Sep 1984
1C84 18.10 Edinburgh - Carstairs 37241 xot CF Edinburgh - Haymarket
2O49 17.15 Glasgow QS - Edinburgh 47247 xo BR Haymarket - Edinburgh
Wednesday 19th Sep 1984
1C84 18.10 Edinburgh - Carstairs 47323 xos TO Edinburgh - Haymarket
2O49 17.15 Glasgow QS - Edinburgh 47148 xb CF Haymarket - Edinburgh
Falcon1200
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Wednesday 21st September 1983
31123 0950 Newcastle-Poole (Oxford-Reading), 35 minutes late after the failure of 47482 at Banbury.
31123 0950 Newcastle-Poole (Oxford-Reading), 35 minutes late after the failure of 47482 at Banbury.
D1537
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Saturday 21 September 1985
47446 1M10 Coventry-B'ham NS
47093 1V73 B'ham NS-Bristol TM
47056 1M22 Bristol TM-B'ham NS
47607 1O23 B'ham NS-Coventry
I have no recollection of why I did this move. I didn't need 056 or 093, perhaps something didn't turn up as expected on the SW-NE procession. I also went home very early so clearly I really couldn't be bothered!
47446 1M10 Coventry-B'ham NS
47093 1V73 B'ham NS-Bristol TM
47056 1M22 Bristol TM-B'ham NS
47607 1O23 B'ham NS-Coventry
I have no recollection of why I did this move. I didn't need 056 or 093, perhaps something didn't turn up as expected on the SW-NE procession. I also went home very early so clearly I really couldn't be bothered!
I'm glad I'm not the only one that looks back over my notebooks and wonders "why the hell did I do that?"
No such mystery for this one though......
Friday 21st September 1984
1C92 16.10 Edinburgh - Carstairs 47376 xos IM Edinburgh - Carstairs
1Z12 12.05 Bristol TM - Edinburgh 37125 xo ML Carstairs - Edinburgh
D1537
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Very nice. 376 was oddly the big NE one that followed me around, I had it 7 times including an emu drag from New Street to Wolverhampton, and a memorable day when I was fast asleep in a New Street waiting room at stupid'o'clock on a Sunday morning and was woken up by 376 arriving next to me with a rake of Mk1s. On enquiring what this was, it turned out to be a kettlex to North Wales, so I got on to the mostly empty front coach and promptly fell asleep again to be woken by the hordes descending on it at Crewe where the kettle was be attached! (Sulzerpower says this was 2/7/89, only a month or so before I gave up!)
Friday 21st September 1984
1C92 16.10 Edinburgh - Carstairs 47376 xos IM Edinburgh - Carstairs
1Z12 12.05 Bristol TM - Edinburgh 37125 xo ML Carstairs - Edinburgh
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It didn't have that headlamp or fancy marker light lenses on my runs behind it! I also note that Crewe station looks a lot worse now, showing an opposite trend to most if not all other stations! But I suppose I should be happy that something hasn't changed since my bashing days......Crewe station is still a ****hole!
I think 368 was probably my rare 47 that turned up for me relatively frequently. 346 was another one I had lots of times (including 2 Mystex outings from Edinburgh to Chester & Shrewsbury!) but the MR ones seemed to be out much more often. For me anyway, I found the TI, TE, IM and KY ones to be the hardest to get behind.
Falcon1200
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Sunday 25th September 1983
31102 + 31134 1548 Paddington-Manchester Picc (Reading-Oxford)
31102 + 31134 1548 Paddington-Manchester Picc (Reading-Oxford)
D1537
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I was going to post this one last year, but couldn't find the right date as I had it in my head that it was October for some reason.
So, as a back story, I'd given up the trains by this point. The previous Saturday we'd been out at our usual night club in Coventry, where are group had met two Coventry girls who we'll call, I dunno, let's use A and B, Anna and Beth. Anna was tall and blonde, Beth was average height and brunette. When we were on the train back to Rugby later on, one of my (female) friends asked me if I'd got Beth's number "as I reckon she liked you". I, frankly, had had far too much to drink to appreciate this fact (and I didn't know if my friend was winding me up anyway, as she was prone to do). Fast forward to six days later...
Friday 27 September 1991
At this time, I was working in Rugby but did one day a week at college in Birmingham. As I hated driving into Birmingham, I always went on the train. My move;
emu Rugby-B'ham NS
47550 1V94 B'ham NS-Coventry
emu Coventry-Rugby
I got into Brum to find my college course had been cancelled because the lecturer was ill. So, rather annoyed but thinking I'd at least had a morning off, I went back to New Street. Whilst waiting for my train to Rugby I wandered down the platform and saw 47550 on a Paddington train. I knew from memory that this was the only 47/4 I'd never had on the LMR region (I'd only had it in Scotland and once from Scotland to Newcastle) so I decided to have a trip to Coventry for old time's sake. I got off the train at Cov and as I was crossing the bridge heard a "hey, hello" from behind me. As you may have guessed, it was one of the girls (Anna) from the previous Saturday, who had also got off there. We had a quick chat and she said that Beth had been annoyed that she hadn't got my number (blimey, my friend was right!) and so she gave it to me and told me to ring her. And we ended up going out together for 3 years, and are still friends - indeed it was a posting by her on Facebook that reminded me to try and find this date again! So, a thank you to 47550 (and Anna of course).
So, as a back story, I'd given up the trains by this point. The previous Saturday we'd been out at our usual night club in Coventry, where are group had met two Coventry girls who we'll call, I dunno, let's use A and B, Anna and Beth. Anna was tall and blonde, Beth was average height and brunette. When we were on the train back to Rugby later on, one of my (female) friends asked me if I'd got Beth's number "as I reckon she liked you". I, frankly, had had far too much to drink to appreciate this fact (and I didn't know if my friend was winding me up anyway, as she was prone to do). Fast forward to six days later...
Friday 27 September 1991
At this time, I was working in Rugby but did one day a week at college in Birmingham. As I hated driving into Birmingham, I always went on the train. My move;
emu Rugby-B'ham NS
47550 1V94 B'ham NS-Coventry
emu Coventry-Rugby
I got into Brum to find my college course had been cancelled because the lecturer was ill. So, rather annoyed but thinking I'd at least had a morning off, I went back to New Street. Whilst waiting for my train to Rugby I wandered down the platform and saw 47550 on a Paddington train. I knew from memory that this was the only 47/4 I'd never had on the LMR region (I'd only had it in Scotland and once from Scotland to Newcastle) so I decided to have a trip to Coventry for old time's sake. I got off the train at Cov and as I was crossing the bridge heard a "hey, hello" from behind me. As you may have guessed, it was one of the girls (Anna) from the previous Saturday, who had also got off there. We had a quick chat and she said that Beth had been annoyed that she hadn't got my number (blimey, my friend was right!) and so she gave it to me and told me to ring her. And we ended up going out together for 3 years, and are still friends - indeed it was a posting by her on Facebook that reminded me to try and find this date again! So, a thank you to 47550 (and Anna of course).
Freedom of Scotland Rover.
Friday 21st September 1990
37170 2Y46 1808 Montrose - Perth
Saturday 22nd September 1990
37229 1M94 1040 Ayr - Carlisle via Kilmarnock
37152 1H39 1930 Aberdeen - Inverness (from Elgin)
Sunday 23rd September 1990
37152 1A86 1548 Inverness - Aberdeen
Monday 24th September 1990
37708 1A62 0915 Inverness - Elgin
37708 1H41 1018 Elgin - Inverness
37114 1A58 1758 Inverness - Stonehaven (to Elgin)
Tuesday 25th September 1990
37113 1H21 0528 Aberdeen - Inverness (from Huntly)
37708 1A62 0915 Inverness - Elgin
37708 1H41 1018 Elgin - Inverness
37152 2A69 1658 Dyce - Montrose
37175 2Y46 1808 Montrose - Perth
Thursday 27th September 1990
37406 1Y11 2110 Euston - Fort William (from Glasgow Cen)
5305 2Y61 1030 Fort William - Mallaig 'The Lochaber'
Cal Mac MV Iona from Mallaig to Armadale, Isle of Skye Bus to Kyleakin for ferry to Kyle of Lochalsh
37418 2H86 1700 Kyle of Lochalsh - Inverness
37402 1A60 2012 Inverness - Aberdeen (to Huntly)
Friday 28th September 1990
37152 2A74 1712 Dundee - Montrose
37152 2Y46 1808 Montrose - Perth (to Dundee)
Friday 21st September 1990
37170 2Y46 1808 Montrose - Perth
Saturday 22nd September 1990
37229 1M94 1040 Ayr - Carlisle via Kilmarnock
37152 1H39 1930 Aberdeen - Inverness (from Elgin)
Sunday 23rd September 1990
37152 1A86 1548 Inverness - Aberdeen
Monday 24th September 1990
37708 1A62 0915 Inverness - Elgin
37708 1H41 1018 Elgin - Inverness
37114 1A58 1758 Inverness - Stonehaven (to Elgin)
Tuesday 25th September 1990
37113 1H21 0528 Aberdeen - Inverness (from Huntly)
37708 1A62 0915 Inverness - Elgin
37708 1H41 1018 Elgin - Inverness
37152 2A69 1658 Dyce - Montrose
37175 2Y46 1808 Montrose - Perth
Thursday 27th September 1990
37406 1Y11 2110 Euston - Fort William (from Glasgow Cen)
5305 2Y61 1030 Fort William - Mallaig 'The Lochaber'
Cal Mac MV Iona from Mallaig to Armadale, Isle of Skye Bus to Kyleakin for ferry to Kyle of Lochalsh
37418 2H86 1700 Kyle of Lochalsh - Inverness
37402 1A60 2012 Inverness - Aberdeen (to Huntly)
Friday 28th September 1990
37152 2A74 1712 Dundee - Montrose
37152 2Y46 1808 Montrose - Perth (to Dundee)
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Falcon1200
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Sunday 2nd October 1983
47200 1055 Manchester Picc-Paddington (Oxford-Reading)
50040 2300 Paddington-Plymouth (Reading-Didcot)
Thursday 2nd October 1997
87027 0720 Glasgow C-Euston (to Carlisle)
89001 1136 Bradford FS-Kings X (Shipley-Leeds)
91025 1305 Leeds-Kings X (to Wakefield W)
43154 + 43090 0826 Paignton-Newcastle (Wakefield W-Leeds)
47200 1055 Manchester Picc-Paddington (Oxford-Reading)
50040 2300 Paddington-Plymouth (Reading-Didcot)
Thursday 2nd October 1997
87027 0720 Glasgow C-Euston (to Carlisle)
89001 1136 Bradford FS-Kings X (Shipley-Leeds)
91025 1305 Leeds-Kings X (to Wakefield W)
43154 + 43090 0826 Paignton-Newcastle (Wakefield W-Leeds)
Nice. This is actually the only locomotive I regret missing after I'd given up......but I may still get it one day......!
D1537
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I actually had it well after I'd given up, on a Leeds-KX service in 1998 when I was heading home after the football...
I wish I'd had a trip behind it......it's a very nice looking loco and not short on power!
I've been watching its first tentative moves under it own power again on videos taken the other night on its little sojourn to Stafford and back. The folks at ACLG have done a superb job on it.
Falcon1200
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IIRC this was the second time I travelled from Scotland to West Yorkshire to get 89001. Something, now lost in the mists of time, went wrong previously!
Monday 3rd October 1983
2L44 14.17 Edinburgh - Dundee 47406 xd GD Edinburgh - Kirkcaldy
2G68 14.21 Dundee - Edinburgh 27036 xb ED Kirkcaldy - Edinburgh
2Y13 17.23 Edinburgh - Glasgow C 37110 xb MR Edinburgh - Kingsknowe
(This was a vice dmu turn, and the only time ever I got loco hauled to my home station)
2L44 14.17 Edinburgh - Dundee 47406 xd GD Edinburgh - Kirkcaldy
2G68 14.21 Dundee - Edinburgh 27036 xb ED Kirkcaldy - Edinburgh
2Y13 17.23 Edinburgh - Glasgow C 37110 xb MR Edinburgh - Kingsknowe
(This was a vice dmu turn, and the only time ever I got loco hauled to my home station)
Falcon1200
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Tuesday 4th October 1983
50013 + 50040 0918 Didcot-Paddington (to Reading)
Given the previous double-headers on this train, as per Post #7148, this appears to have been a regular diagram
50007 1902 Paddington-Oxford (from Reading)
50013 + 50040 0918 Didcot-Paddington (to Reading)
Given the previous double-headers on this train, as per Post #7148, this appears to have been a regular diagram
50007 1902 Paddington-Oxford (from Reading)
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It has been a while since I've posted old photos to the thread (which was, after all, the reason I created it in the first place), but the discussion of 89001 has prompted me to fish out the albums.
Firstly, here it is after being preserved for the first time, at the Midland Railway Centre, 19th March 1995:
Back in traffic on the ECML, I was about to have a run behind it out of Bradford F.S. on 30th September 1997:
While I was flicking through the albums, I came across this phot of another loco currently subject to discussion on the SVR thread, and allowing a fair few cranks to get their red pens busy - 37901 stabled at Newport, 8th March 1993:
I don't require any of the nine "proper" 37s operating, and didn't feel the need to go after this not-a-Syphon. Hence I'm on the sofa, not standing at a droplight this morning.
Firstly, here it is after being preserved for the first time, at the Midland Railway Centre, 19th March 1995:
Back in traffic on the ECML, I was about to have a run behind it out of Bradford F.S. on 30th September 1997:
While I was flicking through the albums, I came across this phot of another loco currently subject to discussion on the SVR thread, and allowing a fair few cranks to get their red pens busy - 37901 stabled at Newport, 8th March 1993:
I don't require any of the nine "proper" 37s operating, and didn't feel the need to go after this not-a-Syphon. Hence I'm on the sofa, not standing at a droplight this morning.
Yes, I had a pair of 50s on that service, also in 1983. I also had a pair out of Padd on 1A34 to Oxford a couple of times the same year. Those workings certainly helped me get through them quicker!
I didn't appreciate I should've been posting photos as well!
Nice to see badger (or 'the old moose' as the chair of ACLG referred to it the other day!) out and about in service. The only loco I have my beady eye on for a tick.....
I had that Mirrlees thing when it was 37150 based at ML, so that'll do for me, (and the other 9 on parade this weekend aren't required either). I'm completely with you on it being a non-37, as I said in the other thread!
D1537
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Saturday 4 October 1987
Last summer Saturday of probably the last really good bashing year (88 was OK but the trains that good stuff turned up on were the same ones over and over again). It wasn't a warm day, there wasn't much NB action, and it was definitely cold enough that I decided getting on a 50 was preferable to 90 minutes at Reading! Nice bonus 47/3 at the end though.
47521 1O30 Sheffield-Reading (via Nottingham)
50004 1A02 Reading-Paddington
47468 1M10 Paddington-Birmingham NS
47560 1O05 Birmingham NS-Reading
47466 1O05 Reading-Basingstoke
47326 1M23 Basingstoke-Stoke
47306 2K73 Stoke-Crewe (dragging failed dmu)
86430 1A41 Crewe-Rugby
Last summer Saturday of probably the last really good bashing year (88 was OK but the trains that good stuff turned up on were the same ones over and over again). It wasn't a warm day, there wasn't much NB action, and it was definitely cold enough that I decided getting on a 50 was preferable to 90 minutes at Reading! Nice bonus 47/3 at the end though.
47521 1O30 Sheffield-Reading (via Nottingham)
50004 1A02 Reading-Paddington
47468 1M10 Paddington-Birmingham NS
47560 1O05 Birmingham NS-Reading
47466 1O05 Reading-Basingstoke
47326 1M23 Basingstoke-Stoke
47306 2K73 Stoke-Crewe (dragging failed dmu)
86430 1A41 Crewe-Rugby
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Monday 4th October 1982
1Z40 ???? Blackpool N - Dundee 37067 xot TE Edinburgh - Kirkcaldy
(quick trip down to Pillan's for a pie!)
2G16 19.21 Dundee - Edinburgh 47405 xd GD Kirkcaldy - Edinburgh
Tuesday 5th October 1982
2L36 11.17 Edinburgh - Dundee 27017 vb HA Edinburgh - Inverkeithing
1S12 08.40 York - Aberdeen 47490 xe CD Edinburgh - Kirkcaldy
2G54 12.21 Dundee - Edinburgh 27037 vb HA Kirkcaldy - Inverkeithing
2L42 13.17 Edinburgh - Dundee 47002 xb HA (still with its silver roof) Inverkeithing - Kirkcaldy
2G62 13.21 Dundee - Edinburgh 27017 vb HA Kirkcaldy - Edinburgh
2L47 15.17 Edinburgh - Dundee 27037 vb HA Edinburgh - Kirkcaldy
2G75 15.21 Dundee - Edinburgh 47002 xb HA Kirkcaldy - Edinburgh
2L54 17.17 Edinburgh - Dundee 40052 xb HM Edinburgh - Kirkcaldy
1E26 16.30 Aberdeen - York 47490 xe CD Kirkcaldy - Edinburgh
Wednesday 6th October 1982
2L40 12.17 Edinburgh - Dundee 27040 xb HA Edinburgh - Haymarket
1S12 08.40 York - Aberdeen 47520 xd GD Edinburgh - Kirkcaldy
1C93 11.50 Aberdeen - Carstairs 47528 xd GD Kirkcaldy - Inverkeithing
2L44 14.17 Edinburgh - Dundee 40044 xb LO Inverkeithing - Dundee
2G84 16.21 Dundee - Edinburgh 40044 xb LO Dundee - Edinburgh
1C87 18.06 Edinburgh - Carstairs 47526 xd GD Edinburgh - Haymarket
2G03 17.22 Dundee - Edinburgh 27037 vb HA Inverkeithing - Edinburgh
1Z40 ???? Blackpool N - Dundee 37067 xot TE Edinburgh - Kirkcaldy
(quick trip down to Pillan's for a pie!)
2G16 19.21 Dundee - Edinburgh 47405 xd GD Kirkcaldy - Edinburgh
Tuesday 5th October 1982
2L36 11.17 Edinburgh - Dundee 27017 vb HA Edinburgh - Inverkeithing
1S12 08.40 York - Aberdeen 47490 xe CD Edinburgh - Kirkcaldy
2G54 12.21 Dundee - Edinburgh 27037 vb HA Kirkcaldy - Inverkeithing
2L42 13.17 Edinburgh - Dundee 47002 xb HA (still with its silver roof) Inverkeithing - Kirkcaldy
2G62 13.21 Dundee - Edinburgh 27017 vb HA Kirkcaldy - Edinburgh
2L47 15.17 Edinburgh - Dundee 27037 vb HA Edinburgh - Kirkcaldy
2G75 15.21 Dundee - Edinburgh 47002 xb HA Kirkcaldy - Edinburgh
2L54 17.17 Edinburgh - Dundee 40052 xb HM Edinburgh - Kirkcaldy
1E26 16.30 Aberdeen - York 47490 xe CD Kirkcaldy - Edinburgh
Wednesday 6th October 1982
2L40 12.17 Edinburgh - Dundee 27040 xb HA Edinburgh - Haymarket
1S12 08.40 York - Aberdeen 47520 xd GD Edinburgh - Kirkcaldy
1C93 11.50 Aberdeen - Carstairs 47528 xd GD Kirkcaldy - Inverkeithing
2L44 14.17 Edinburgh - Dundee 40044 xb LO Inverkeithing - Dundee
2G84 16.21 Dundee - Edinburgh 40044 xb LO Dundee - Edinburgh
1C87 18.06 Edinburgh - Carstairs 47526 xd GD Edinburgh - Haymarket
2G03 17.22 Dundee - Edinburgh 27037 vb HA Inverkeithing - Edinburgh
Falcon1200
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Wednesday 10th October 1984
86324 1510 Glasgow C-Euston (to Preston)
85018 1747 Preston-Crewe
86223 1617 Holyhead-Euston (Crewe-Birmingham NS)
50040 1902 Man Picc-Paddington (Birmingham NS-Oxford)
86324 1510 Glasgow C-Euston (to Preston)
85018 1747 Preston-Crewe
86223 1617 Holyhead-Euston (Crewe-Birmingham NS)
50040 1902 Man Picc-Paddington (Birmingham NS-Oxford)