Back in the day...

[xotGD]

A Crompton into Padd sounds like a rare event.

 

[QJ]

What was 1Z63 on which you had 33 061 in 1984?
33061 HG 1Z63 1618 Cardiff Central - London Paddington (Reading to London Paddington)

According to my notes it was an additional (relief) train.

 

[D6130]

What was 1Z63 on which you had 33 061 in 1984?
33061 HG 1Z63 1618 Cardiff Central - London Paddington (Reading to London Paddington)

According to my notes it was an additional (relief) train.

Wow! A lucky day for some bashers then!

 

[D1537]

Wednesday 11 February 1987
47477 1O09 Newcastle-B'ham NS (via Leeds)
47575 1O09 B'ham NS-Reading
47575 1M23 Reading-Coventry

Saturday 11 February 1989
47641 1T04 Inverness-Stirling
47461 1P02 Stirling-Edinburgh
47017 1C62 Edinburgh-Carstairs

017 was my lowest-mileage Scottish 47/0 and I needed a return journey to clear it for 100 miles. Standing on Carstairs station for 3 hours at 8.30am in February didn't seem like a fantastic plan. So...

86402 1O12 Carstairs-Carlisle
86256 1S49 Carlisle-Carstairs
47017 1B09 Carstairs-Edinburgh
47709 1O25 Edinburgh-Glasgow QS
47492 1H13 Glasgow QS-Inverness
47562 1M16 Inverness-Polmadie

 

[D1537]

Wednesday 12 February 1986
47444 1M76 Newcastle-Huddersfield
47415 1E88 Huddersfield-Newcastle
Original plan was off to Scotland again, but one of my favourite 47s on A33 caused a change of plan
47423 1A33 Newcastle-King's Cross (via the Joint Line)

Sunday 12 February 1989
47636 1M16 Polmadie-Carlisle (via GSW)
47562 1S19 Carlisle-Glasgow C (via GSW)
47636 1S19 Glasgow C-Edinburgh (via Falkirk)
47460 1O07 Edinburgh-Newcastle
47605 1V98 Newcastle-Birmingham NS (via Leeds)



317303 2B05 Birmingham NS-Coventry

 

[QJ]

Re post #6,573 Class 33 to London Paddington. ISTR reading somewhere there were a few months during 1984 where Cromptons finding their way to Paddington happened more than once.

Saturday 12 February 1977 (pre railtour hotel avoiding moves)
47086 Colossus CF 1C00 0114 Bristol Temple Meads - Milford Haven (Bristol Temple Meads to Cardiff Central)
47484 IK Brunel LE 1A53 0110 Fishguard Harbour - London Paddington (Cardiff Central to Newport)
47131 CF 1V51 0147 Crewe - Cardiff Central (Newport to Cardiff Central)
25055 CF 2M67 0532 Cardiff Central - Crewe (Cardiff Central to Newport)
1*120 DMU 2B04 0600 Cardiff Central - Bristol Temple Meads (Newport to Bristol Temple Meads)

D1023 Western Fusilier LA 1Z54 F&W Western Finale Railtour from Bristol Temple Meads to York and return to Exeter Saint Davids)

then home on

45030 HO 1B58 2120 Bristol Temple Meads - Plymouth (Exeter Saint Davids to Plymouth)

Friday 12 February 1982
50040 LA 1V11 1110 London Waterloo - Exeter Saint Davids (London Waterloo to Exeter Saint Davids)
HST (43136+43039) 1B74 1225 London Paddington to Plymouth (Exeter Saint Davids to Plymouth)

Thursday 12 February 2003
(end of a circular track bash from and to Chicago via Philadelphia, Washington, Jacksonville and Los Angeles where it almost finished)

861 (GM F59 PH 1992) SCAX312 1130 Los Angeles Union - San Bernardino AMTK (Los Angeles Union to San Bernardino AMTK)
861 (GM F59 PH 1992) SCAX331 1443 San Bernardino AMTK - Los Angeles Union (San Bernardino AMTK to Los Angeles Union)

Then Metro Red and Blue lines from Los Angeles Union to Long Beach and return to view the Queen Mary liner and do some shopping in Wallmarts. It dawned upon me on the way back that I had underestimated how long it would take me to get back to Union station. PANIC!!!! And sure enough I arrived at Union station after the Chief had departed. I got stopped from running up the platform ramp from the subway and got told I'd missed the departure but "if you go up the next platform ramp you'll be able to catch it". Thankfully on reaching the platform indicated the train could be seen backing onto a set of mail road/rail vehicles. Phew! Fortunately a coach door was opened so I could scramble on. I wouldn't miss my flight home after all! I had to wait to find out what the locos were on the front until a designated leg stretch stop at Lamy NM lunch time on day two of the 43 hour journey. I did work out there were four locos hauling the train by counting the ditch lights as the train headed up Cajon Pass in the darkness of the late evening.

4*GE P42B (199+44+14+90) AMTK#4 Southwest Chief 1845 Los Angeles Union - Chicago Union (Los Angeles Union to Chicago Union)

Two nights on the train and 4235km or thereabouts off each loco. I had a dodgy tummy by the time I got off the train. Not long before the train arrived in the Windy City I had a bout of wind of my own. After using the facilities in the train I returned to my cabin. I heard the door of the toilet being opened followed by a guy muttering " Smells like the Pope has crawled in here and died!!!" to the coach attendant. )

 

[D1537]

Thursday 13 February 1986
Of course, as usual the King's Lynn loco ... was not a Stratford one.
47568 1H04 Liverpool Street-Bishop's Stortford
47591 1C77 Bishop's Stortford-Liverpool Street
47450 1H14 Liverpool Street-King's Lynn
47450 1C83 King's Lynn-Cambridge
47574 1C84 Cambridge-Liverpool Street
47537 1M42 Paddington-Banbury (via High Wycombe)
47456 1M40 Banbury-Coventry

Friday 13 February 1987
47522 1M03 Coventry-Liverpool LS
47412 1O12 Liverpool LS-Banbury
47539 1M63 Banbury-Coventry

 

[xotGD]

47412 1O12 Liverpool LS-Banbury

Why allocate a Generator on a service back to Newcastle when you can send it as far from home as possible!

 

[Sun Chariot]

Why allocate a Generator on a service back to Newcastle when you can send it as far from home as possible!

"Send it back on the next turn via Oxford Road."
"Wha-? It's a bad phone line. Send it back via Oxford? Right-ho."

 

[D1537]

Why allocate a Generator on a service back to Newcastle when you can send it as far from home as possible!

Completely standard. Not long after this one, I was at Liverpool after 47411, fresh off Crewe overhaul, had arrived light engine allocated to 1E88 to get it back to Gateshead.

They sent it to Poole as well.

Link

 

[Peter Sarf]

Why allocate a Generator on a service back to Newcastle when you can send it as far from home as possible!

I used to think that perhaps a depot would send a loco that was not theirs anyway on a working that otherwise tended to be how they lost their own locos.

 

[AJM580]

14/2/98

86221 Norwich - Liverpool Street (1P01 0505 Norwich - Liverpool Street)
87015 Euston - Birmingham New Street (1G17 0735 Euston - Wolverhampton)
D9000 Birmingham New Street - Leeds (1E55 0955 Birmingham - Leeds relief)
321901 Leeds - Doncaster (1321 Leeds - Doncaster stopper)
43101/43157 Doncaster - Birmingham New Street (1V58 1409 York - Swansea)
87015 Birmingham New Street - Euston (1A65 1619 Wolverhampton - Euston)
86250 Liverpool Street - Norwich (1P38 1930 Liverpool Street - Norwich)

The D9000 move was a Birmingham - Leeds footex via Wolverhampton, Stafford, Stoke, Stockport, Stalybridge & Huddersfield which ended up with far more cranks than football fans.

 

[D1537]

14/2/98

The D9000 move was a Birmingham - Leeds footex via Wolverhampton, Stafford, Stoke, Stockport, Stalybridge & Huddersfield which ended up with far more cranks than football fans.

I was at the Leeds-Brum game that day, and was standing on Leeds station when it arrived. Having lost track of the railway scene at that point, I was somewhat bemused!

 

[D1537]

Saturday 15 February 1986
47429 1M88 Coventry-Manchester Picc
47531 1M73 Manchester Picc-Liverpool
47479 1O23 Liverpool-Wolverhampton
47405 1J33 Wolverhampton-Shrewsbury
47405 1A84 Shrewsbury-Wolverhampton
86429 1A84 Wolverhampton-B'ham NS
47565 1V19 B'ham NS-Leamington
47564 1M41 Leamington-B'ham NS
47405 1S19 B'ham NS-Preston (via Soho and Cannock, last run with 405, withdrawn a couple of weeks later. The only generator I didn't clear for 1000 to my annoyance!)

 

[D6130]

Saturday 15 February 1986
47429 1M88 Coventry-Manchester Picc
47531 1M73 Manchester Picc-Liverpool
47479 1O23 Liverpool-Wolverhampton
47405 1J33 Wolverhampton-Shrewsbury
47405 1A84 Shrewsbury-Wolverhampton
86429 1A84 Wolverhampton-B'ham NS
47565 1V19 B'ham NS-Leamington
47564 1M41 Leamington-B'ham NS
47405 1S19 B'ham NS-Preston (via Soho and Cannock, last run with 405, withdrawn a couple of weeks later. The only generator I didn't clear for 1000 to my annoyance!)

It may have been your last run with 86 429 too. It was destroyed in the Colwich collision a few months later.

 

[Falcon1200]

A day late with this one;
Monday 14th February 1983
47096 1A34 1350 Paddington-Oxford (from Reading

And another Peak out of Paddington;
Wednesday 15th February 1984
45115 1Mxx 1307 Paddington-Liverpool Lime St (Reading-Oxford)

 

[D1537]

It may have been your last run with 86 429 too. It was destroyed in the Colwich collision a few months later.

Yes, it was. Indeed, it was the only time I had it with that number, having previously had it a few times as 86329 (but not, it appears, as 86029).

 

[Falcon1200]

Another trip for some Class 33s; DMU travel again not recorded!

Wednesday 16th February 1983
47468 1M88 0625 Poole-Liverpool Lime St (Oxford-Birmingham New St)
86206 1M11 0750 Swansea-Manchester Piccadilly (Birmingham New St-Crewe)
33009 1V05 1225 Crewe-Cardiff C (Crewe-Craven Arms)
33032 1M84 1150 Cardiff C-Crewe (Craven Arms-Shrewsbury)
47529 1A61 1436 Bangor-Euston (Chester-Crewe)
86248 1A75 1435 Carlisle-Euston (Crewe-Stafford)
86211 1V12 1625 Manchester Piccadilly-Swansea (Stafford-Birmingham New St)
87008 1V18 1345 Glasgow C-Paddington (Birmingham New St-Coventry)
50045 1V18 ditto (Coventry-Oxford)

 

[D1537]

Monday 16th February 1981
Must have been half-term again, and we're off to Chester to visit the relatives. Well, my mum is. I'm off to WBQ to do some spotting.
40107 1J30 Chester-Warrington BQ
40107 1D21 Warrington BQ-Chester

Sunday 16th February 1986
47570 1V32 Preston-Stafford
47553+47570 1V32 Stafford-B'ham NS (via Cannock)

There are EMU drags out of Liverpool Street today and there's a new 47 for me there. Yet another Stratford 47 on the Nuneaton drag, no wonder there's none on the GE when I go there...

47579 (86225) 1A08 B'ham NS-Nuneaton
86225 1A08 Nuneaton-Euston
47277 1Y08 Liverpool Street-Romford (1330 Liverpool Street-Ipswich)
37055 2C21 Romford-Liverpool Street (1258 Clacton-Liverpool Street)
87001 1G36 Euston-Coventry

 

[1D54]

17/02/85.
1E76. Leicester - March. 31410
1M14. March - Leicester. 31418

 

[xotGD]

1M14. March - Leicester. 31418

Having escaped from it's daily outings on the Newcastle to Sunderland vans.

 

[Magdalia]

Having escaped from it's daily outings on the Newcastle to Sunderland vans.

The escape was in October 1980, a long time before February 1985. 31418 was a March loco (10/80-12/87) for longer than it was a Gateshead loco (04/76-10/80).

 

[Harpo]

31418 was a real paradox as a headcode disc, ETH loco. Not only did it have to heat a train, it had all those fairground bulbs on the front to light up and then had to move trains too.

 

[Sun Chariot]

31418 was a real paradox as a headcode disc, ETH loco. Not only did it have to heat a train, it had all those fairground bulbs on the front to light up and then had to move trains too.

By the time I caught up with it in 1989, in Preston, it was also sporting white-painted "headcode discs" at one end, plus the white stencilled name Boadicea.

 

[D1537]

Wednesday 17 February 1988
Part of Operation "406 is lagging badly behind the other seven Generators in terms of mileage".
47406 1M26 Newcastle-Liverpool
47411 1E16 Liverpool-York
47402 1M19 York-Leeds
47406 1E93 Leeds-Newcastle

And so we've reached the day where I started posting all these interminable lists of 47s. However, I've rescued at least one moves book from the loft and I did miss quite a few days out previously, so you haven't escaped yet

 

[SteveM70]

Wednesday 17 February 1988
Part of Operation "406 is lagging badly behind the other seven Generators in terms of mileage".
47406 1M26 Newcastle-Liverpool
47411 1E16 Liverpool-York
47402 1M19 York-Leeds
47406 1E93 Leeds-Newcastle

And so we've reached the day where I started posting all these interminable lists of 47s. However, I've rescued at least one moves book from the loft and I did miss quite a few days out previously, so you haven't escaped yet

Keep 'em coming! All of this thread is one huge nostalgia fest, and I love it

 

[Magdalia]

By the time I caught up with it in 1989, in Preston, it was also sporting white-painted "headcode discs" at one end, plus the white stencilled name Boadicea.

The Boadicea name is from 31418's East Anglian heritage. Boadicea was Queen of the Iceni tribe who lived in East Anglia and rebelled against the Romans.

 

[Sun Chariot]

The Boadicea name is from 31418's East Anglian heritage. Boadicea was Queen of the Iceni tribe who lived in East Anglia and rebelled against the Romans.

That makes sense. I did wonder what strange tenuous link she had to West Lancashire. Maybe the local 31/4s should have been named after long term inmates at HMP Preston.

 

[SteveM70]

The Boadicea name is from 31418's East Anglian heritage. Boadicea was Queen of the Iceni tribe who lived in East Anglia and rebelled against the Romans.

......and had a similar top speed to Boadicea's chariot

 

[1D54]

The Boadicea name is from 31418's East Anglian heritage. Boadicea was Queen of the Iceni tribe who lived in East Anglia and rebelled against the Romans.

Queen of the Iceni. Now i know where the JDW in Norwich gets the name from.