Last named Waverley named train September 28th 1968

[Nacht-Zug-Fahr]

Does anyone know the Locomotive numbers (Probably class 45 Peaks ) that hauled the last STP to EDB and
EDB to STP Waverley daytime service on 28th September 1968?

 

[Gloster]

If no other suggestions appear try the .disused-stations. website which covers all the stations and might have photos of these trains.

 

[Harvester]

There would have been 4 locos involved, as both the up and down trains would reverse at Leeds, involving a loco change. I have looked at the November 1968 edition of the Railway Observer (which covers September) but surprisingly there are no reports in the LMR or Scottish region sections of the occassion!

 

[70014IronDuke]

There would have been 4 locos involved, as both the up and down trains would reverse at Leeds, involving a loco change. I have looked at the November 1968 edition of the Railway Observer (which covers September) but surprisingly there are no reports in the LMR or Scottish region sections of the occassion!

IIRC, the Waverley traditionally went via Melton to Nottingham (the 'back road') and would change locos at Leeds, on reversal, as you write.

But didn't BR close the Melton line to regular passenger in 67? (except, of course for Leicester - Peterboro' traffic).
If so, did the train go straight up the Erewash, of did it also reverse at Nottingham - so that would make it six locomotives, as the Thames-Clyde did a bit later?
But maybe Corby closed in 68, I can't remember.

Four locos or six - worth a bet that all locos were Class 45s, OP.

 

[Gloster]

IIRC, the Waverley traditionally went via Melton to Nottingham (the 'back road') and would change locos at Leeds, on reversal, as you write.

But didn't BR close the Melton line to regular passenger in 67? (except, of course for Leicester - Peterboro' traffic).
If so, did the train go straight up the Erewash, of did it also reverse at Nottingham - so that would make it six locomotives, as the Thames-Clyde did a bit later?
But maybe Corby closed in 68, I can't remember.

Four locos or six - worth a bet that all locos were Class 45s, OP.

Kettering (Glendon South Junction)-Melton Mowbray and Melton Mowbray-Nottingham (London Road Junction) both closed 6 June 1966. Kettering-Melton was, and is, retained as through route to passenger standards, but Melton-Nottingham closed as a through route on 4 November 1968; the Old Dalby-Edwalton section became a test track.

Source: Hurst’s Register.

 

[70014IronDuke]

Kettering (Glendon South Junction)-Melton Mowbray and Melton Mowbray-Nottingham (London Road Junction) both closed 6 June 1966. Kettering-Melton was, and is, retained as through route to passenger standards, but Melton-Nottingham closed as a through route on 4 November 1968; the Old Dalby-Edwalton section became a test track.

Source: Hurst’s Register.

Gosh, it had already closed in 66*. Thanks. Well, that means the Waverley either missed Nottingham out, of went there and reversed - I suspect the latter.

* It means Nottingham lost two of its three principal routes to London in that year - the GC and Melton roads.

 

[Magdalia]

A key feature of the history of the Waverley as a named train is that from 1964 onwards it was a summer dated service. In the winter the daytime through service between St Pancras and Edinburgh was portions detached/attached from the Thames Clyde Express at Carlisle.

Does anyone know the Locomotive numbers (Probably class 45 Peaks ) that hauled the last STP to EDB and
EDB to STP Waverley daytime service on 28th September 1968?

Which explains why the up and down Waverley ran for the last time on 28 September 1968, even though the last trains on the Waverley route were on 5 January 1969.

Well, that means the Waverley either missed Nottingham out, of went there and reversed - I suspect the latter.

After the June 1966 Nottingham-Melton Mowbray and Manton-Kettering closures the Waverley continued to run via Nottingham, with a reversal.

The last train on the Waverley route on 5 January 1969 was the 2155 Edinburgh-St Pancras sleeper. The loco was 60 Lytham St Annes.

 

[Gloster]

Gosh, it had already closed in 66*. Thanks. Well, that means the Waverley either missed Nottingham out, of went there and reversed - I suspect the latter.

* It means Nottingham lost two of its three principal routes to London in that year - the GC and Melton roads.

The public timetable was due to start on 18 April. Until 11 June the day train was a portion of the Thames-Clyde Express, with the Waverley only running in the summer. From the beginning of the timetable all ran via Leicester.

 

[Harvester]

The last train on the Waverley route on 5 January 1969 was the 2155 Edinburgh-St Pancras sleeper. The loco was 60 Lytham St Annes.

It appears that Peak “Lytham St Annes“ also worked the last northbound sleeper over the route, arriving in Edinburgh on the Sunday morning (5th Jan). When heading back south that evening, the sleeper was badly delayed by sit-down protesters on the track at Newcastleton.

 

[Sun Chariot]

It appears that Peak “Lytham St Annes“ also worked the last northbound sleeper over the route, arriving in Edinburgh on the Sunday morning (5th Jan). When heading back south that evening, the sleeper was badly delayed by sit-down protesters on the track at Newcastleton.

And its journey reprieved, thanks to tactful negotiation by a young, yet-to-be Rt Hon David Steel (Lord Steel of Aikwood).