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My notes for 25/07/1979 tell me I caught the 1025 Blackpool North to Skipton train from Grange over Sands to Wennington whereupon I was invited to leave the train as my All Line Railrover was not a valid ticket for that train (despite the train being shown in the GBTT). At least I managed to travel over the Carnforth F&M to Carnforth East Junctions chord before it was taken out of use for through trains. It appears I was doing some track bashing (filling in the gaps) that day as I had earlier had 45028 for haulage from Bristol to Derby on the 1806 Penzance to Sheffield to catch the first train down the Sinfin branch; the 0633 from Matlock. After the enforced leap at Wennington it was a bus to Lancaster (if only Green Ayre had still been open) to head off to Merseyside via the Bolton to Kirkby line. After sampling some class 108, 502 and 503 units for rideage 46025 took me from Lime Street to Manchester Victoria on the 2040 to York (embarrassingly for a Plymothian the Peak was required for haulage). A kind soul at Manchester gave me a lift to Eccles to intercept 40166 on the 1930 from Bangor to Manchester to register some proper haulage. A scamper over to Piccadilly netted me 81012 on the 2330 Manchester to Brighton to intercept the Shrewsbury to York mails at Stockport...............but that is another day.
 
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A couple of days off in 1982

Tuesday 26th July 1983

87004 WBQ to Crewe, 1A18 06.30 Carlisle to Euston
87025 Crewe to Preston (then it says in brackets Balshaw Lane and I don't understand why, any ideas?), 1S53 08.07 Birmingham to Glasgow
87002 Preston to Crewe (again with the Balshaw Lane thing), 1M33 07.10 Glasgow to Birmingham
87015 Crewe to Lime St, 1M88 06.25 Poole to Lime St
28373 (Class 503), Lime St to Central
507029 Central to Ormskirk and back (why??)
87015 Lime St to Crewe, 1A51 14.25 Lime St to Euston
87002 Crewe to Preston, 1S71 14.05 Birmingham to Glasgow
86251 Preston to Crewe (via Platform 1 at Warrington Bank Quay and Warrington Yard), 1V18 13.20 Glasgow to Paddington
87024 Crewe to WBQ, 1P70 14.40 Euston to Blackpool

Saturday 26th July 1986

31231/31198 Warrington C to Birchwood, 1E85 10.45 Lime St to Yarmouth

Both required. That's it!
 

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Thursday 26/07/79
Déjà vu: Another early shift finished, and straight onto The Bangor:
40015 1540 Manchester – Bangor
40004 1846 Bangor – Crewe
86225 2117 Crewe – Warrington Bank Quay
40115 2141 Warrington Bank Quay – Manchester Victoria

Saturday 26/07/80
Another day out with the catering trolley:
86325 1025 Euston – Crewe 85 minutes lost due to multiple signalling failures Bletchley to Rugby. Time regained to 60’ late at Crewe.
47280 1242 Crewe – Chester
I was preparing to alight at Crewe when required 47280 dropped on the front, so I decided to stick with it to Chester:
25097 1540 Chester – Llandudno Junction
40182 1728 Llandudno Junction – Chester
40182 was required, so I abandoned my booked 1605 Llandudno – Euston in order to get it, then followed on the Euston on the 1805 from Holyhead:
47440 1933 Chester – Crewe
86229 2016 Crewe – Euston

(Sunday 25/07/82)
I decided to head for North Wales to hunt for 40s. Some trips are very productive, others, less so. See if you can work out for yourself which category this couple of days falls into!
87024 2030 Euston – Crewe via Stechford, Bescot, Bushbury Jn
DMU Crewe – Chester to pick up the class 40 on the 2240 Manchester Victoria – Holyhead
47451 2351 Chester – Holyhead (Well, this is going well, isn’t it?)
Monday 26/07/82
47524 0624 Holyhead – Chester
DMU Chester – Helsby
40104 0840 Helsby – Llandudno Junction
So having had all of 52 miles off a dud class 40, I now had to head back to London to go to work. Cheers then!
47447 1011 Llandudno Junction – Chester
DMU Chester – Crewe
87029 1155 Crewe – Euston (arrived Euston 8 minutes early!).
Then, after a shift at work, I was mad enough to try it all over again:
85019 2240 Euston – Crewe (continued tomorrow)

Thursday 26/07/84
Another required 26 is working on the G&SW:
26026 1730 Glasgow Central – Carlisle via Dumfries
86101 2050 Carlisle – Mossend
27005 22xx Mossend – Larbert
47527 2344 Larbert – Mossend (continued tomorrow)

Thursday 26/07/90
Metropolitan No 1 2007 Wembley Park – Stanmore
Battery Loco L44 2049 Stanmore – Wembley Park
Stock used was departmental coach DB877588 (a former BR BSK) and EMU 305 513.
 
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26th July 1983 - Day 2 in Scotland:

47489 Perth - Inverness 1N05 (via Inverness avoider and reverse into the platform)
08754 Stock shunt 5N05
36260 Inverness - Dingwall 2K03
26041 Dingwall - Kyle of Lochalsh 2K02

Ferry to Skye & back

26041 Kyle - Inverness 2N20
47209 Inverness - Aberdeen 2A37 (passed a pair of Type 2s at Elgin(?) but couldn't leap across for them)
26030 + 26043 Stock shunt 5N34
26030 + 26043 Aberdeen - Inverness 2N34
47210 Inverness - Elgin 2A57
47118 Elgin - Inverness 2N38
47460 Inverness - Perth 1T04

26th July 1986

47423 Newcastle - Durham 1M73
37003 Durham - Newcastle 1F90 (Scarbados - Newcastle extended to Glasgow)
45129 Newcastle - Durham 1M76
45133 Durham - Newcastle 1E99

Here's the Syphon earlier in the day:

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26th July 1990

Up and down between Brum, Wolves and Cov with:

47809/90046/86206/90037/86212/86209/87016/86224/90045/90041

A few freight Skodas out and about that day.
 

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25/07/87
47287 08:20 Bolton-Sheffield.
45110 10:34 Sheffield-Derby.
31255 15:55 Derby-Sheffield.
47610 18:23 Sheffield-Stockport.
47146 19:39 Stockport-Manchester Piccadilly.

Others....
31309 Blackpool N-Nottingham.
47369 HST generator set
47567 HST generator set.

26/07/87
47608 09:35 Manchester Piccadilly-Birmingham NST.
47636 14:09 Birmingham NST-Birmingham Int'l.
86439 14:24 Birmingham Int'l-Birmingham NST.
86236 14:48 Birmingham NST-Birmingham Int'l.
47638 15:46 Birmingham Int'l-Birmingham NST.
86418 17:03 Birmingham NST-Wolverhampton.
86232 18:30 Stafford N-Manchester Piccadilly
 

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SATURDAY 26th JULY 1975:

A day out to Plymouth via Portsmouth and Salisbury:

7818 Petersfield-Fratton
W51387/59497/51345+W51446/59547/51517 Fratton-Portsmouth Harbour
W51517/59547/51446+W51345/59497/51387 Portsmouth Harbour-Salisbury
33 005 Salisbury-Exeter St David's
45 112 Exeter St Davids-Plymouth
45 112 Plymouth-Exeter St David's
33 014 Exeter St David's-Salisbury
1131 Salisbury-Fratton
7803 Fratton-Petersfield

Locos seen:

Fratton: 33 015/020, 47 449/514.
Portsmouth & Southsea: 33 022.
St Denys: 33 114.
Northam Yard: 08 845.
Salisbury: 08 204, 33 005, 47 123.
Chard Junction: 33 007
Exmouth Junction: 33 042.
Exeter St David's: 08 584, 45 063/112, 47 140, 50 005.
Dawlish: 47 082.
Teignmouth: 31 265.
Newton Abbot: 1012, 08 410/955, 45 003.
Laira Depot: 1006/50/64, 7089, 03 128, 08 845, 47 051.
Plymouth: 1001/05/16/28/33/34/37/55/63/64, 08 945, 45 027/050, 47 236/250/365.
Laira Depot: 1006/50, 03 128, 08 414, 47 251.
Totnes: 1012.
Newton Abbot: 08 410/955,
45 003/070, 47 002/095.
Exeter St David's: 1072, 08 584/849,
25 220, 33 014, 46 024, 50 007.
Honiton: 33 113.
Salisbury: 08 204, 33 018/025/032.
Redbridge: 08 030.
Southampton: 08 845.
 
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Saturday 27th July 1991

91015 12.34 Newcastle-Darlington (via High Level Bridge).
Five shunters 08254/515/608/618/671 observed at the recently closed Gateshead Depot.

47234 14.28 Darlington-Newcastle (Skegness-Newcastle).
Stock was early Mark 2 (5279,5337,9442,6524,5246,5291,5437).

Saturday 27th July 1963

A memorable day trip to Carlisle.

V2 60805 09.00 Newcastle-Carlisle (Newcastle-Blackpool)
V2 60964 17.00 Carlisle-Newcastle (Stranraer-Newcastle)

After arrival at Carlisle we dashed out to Upperby, bunked the shed, and rushed back to the station. We then witnessed a continuous flow of regular, Saturday extra and relief trains throughout the afternoon, many changing engines in the station.

Recorded at Carlisle station.

Diesel:
19 EE Type 4 (including 4 named examples D210/222/232/233)
5 Peak (D15/17/53/8896)
1 Type 2 D5178

Steam:
18 Black Five
15 jubilee
3 Royal Scot (46114,46155,46165)
2 Coronations (46222,46255)
3 Brits (70043,70044,70049)
1 Clan 72008
1 A3 60089
2 V2(60805,60964)
 

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Just the one year for me on this day...

Wednesday 27th July 1983

87015 WBQ to Crewe, 1A18 06.30 Carlisle to Euston
86213 Crewe to Runcorn, 1F11 07.40 Euston to Lime St
87002 Runcorn to Crewe, 1A32 10.00 Lime St to Euston
87008 Crewe (my notebook says platform 3 which was presumably unusual) to Preston, 1S61 06.45 Paddington to Glasgow
87007 Preston to Crewe, 1M57 09.20 Glasgow to Birmingham
87032 Crewe to Preston, 1P70 14.40 Euston to Blackpool
87024 Preston to Crewe, 1M52 17.10 Glasgow to Euston
86251 Crewe to WBQ, 1P49 19.15 Euston to Carlisle
 

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Saturday 27th July 1991

91015 12.34 Newcastle-Darlington (via High Level Bridge).
Five shunters 08254/515/608/618/671 observed at the recently closed Gateshead Depot.

47234 14.28 Darlington-Newcastle (Skegness-Newcastle).
Stock was early Mark 2 (5279,5337,9442,6524,5246,5291,5437).

Saturday 27th July 1963

A memorable day trip to Carlisle.

V2 60805 09.00 Newcastle-Carlisle (Newcastle-Blackpool)
V2 60964 17.00 Carlisle-Newcastle (Stranraer-Newcastle)

After arrival at Carlisle we dashed out to Upperby, bunked the shed, and rushed back to the station. We then witnessed a continuous flow of regular, Saturday extra and relief trains throughout the afternoon, many changing engines in the station.

Recorded at Carlisle station.

Diesel:
19 EE Type 4 (including 4 named examples D210/222/232/233)
5 Peak (D15/17/53/8896)
1 Type 2 D5178

Steam:
18 Black Five
15 jubilee
3 Royal Scot (46114,46155,46165)
2 Coronations (46222,46255)
3 Brits (70043,70044,70049)
1 Clan 72008
1 A3 60089
2 V2(60805,60964)
Fabulous memories of steam days. My grandparents had a farm alongside the West Coast Main Line just North of the border and I have vivid memories of steam and diesel locos passing by at frequent intervals during the 'sixties. Sadly, I didn't start spotting until 1966 - just after the end of steam - but I can remember certain individual locos, especially the namers (Duchesses, Scots, Jubilees, Patriots, etc.)
 
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Saturday 27th July 1991

91015 12.34 Newcastle-Darlington (via High Level Bridge).
Five shunters 08254/515/608/618/671 observed at the recently closed Gateshead Depot.

47234 14.28 Darlington-Newcastle (Skegness-Newcastle).
Stock was early Mark 2 (5279,5337,9442,6524,5246,5291,5437).

Saturday 27th July 1963

A memorable day trip to Carlisle.

V2 60805 09.00 Newcastle-Carlisle (Newcastle-Blackpool)
V2 60964 17.00 Carlisle-Newcastle (Stranraer-Newcastle)

After arrival at Carlisle we dashed out to Upperby, bunked the shed, and rushed back to the station. We then witnessed a continuous flow of regular, Saturday extra and relief trains throughout the afternoon, many changing engines in the station.

Recorded at Carlisle station.

Diesel:
19 EE Type 4 (including 4 named examples D210/222/232/233)
5 Peak (D15/17/53/8896)
1 Type 2 D5178

Steam:
18 Black Five
15 jubilee
3 Royal Scot (46114,46155,46165)
2 Coronations (46222,46255)
3 Brits (70043,70044,70049)
1 Clan 72008
1 A3 60089
2 V2(60805,60964)
Wonderful stuff. More please!
 

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Wednesday 27/07/77
On my rest day from my summer job in Butlins, Ayr, I decided to do a round trip to Kilmarnock, as I needed the track from Barassie to Kilmarnock. I hoped the trains might get some interesting motive power:
47420 1241 Ayr – Kilmarnock
47450 1638 Kilmarnock – Ayr
Draw your own conclusions …

Friday 27/07/79
I’d stayed at a mate’s flat overnight, then had to head into Manchester to work the late shift at Victoria station buffet. There was only one train that fit the bill:
40115 1409 Patricroft – Manchester Victoria (1130 ex Bangor)

Sunday 27/07/80
My Sunday turn with the tea trolley:
86239 0855 Euston – Stafford
47107 (+86239 dead) 1113 Stafford – Crewe (Booked dragging)
At Crewe we caught up with the 0835 Euston – Holyhead, which today had a pair of 25s forward from Crewe. We were delayed 20 minutes as the 25s were fighting each other on the run up to Beeston Castle!
47487 1149 Crewe – Chester
I alighted at Chester to top up the urns, and in the hope of getting a class 40 along the coast:
47202 1314 Chester – Llanfairfechan
40012 1518 Llanfairfechan – Chester
… and back onto diagram …
47452 1757 Chester – Crewe
86322 1839 Crewe – Euston

Tuesday 27/07/82
The previous day had been pretty poor for class 40 workings in North Wales. Some days on the North Wales Coast you could scarcely move without tripping over a class 40. On other days …
47483 0223 Crewe – Holyhead
47483 0624 Holyhead – Bangor
25195 0709 Bangor – Chester
40008 0857 Chester - Llandudno Junction
That was as far as I could get before having to give it all up as a bad job and head south for a late shift at Euston:
47429 1011 Llandudno Junction – Chester
DMU Chester – Crewe
87014 1155 Crewe – Euston (5’ late start, 5’ early arrival).

Friday 27/07/84
86101 00xx Mossend – Carlisle
47534 0206 Carlisle – Stranraer
26023 (piloting 47534) 04xx Newton on Ayr – Stranraer
The purpose of this move was to get 26023, which was required, and in the knowledge that the loco awaiting to take me back out of Stranraer was not the diagrammed ETH 47:
37172 0735 Stranraer – Glasgow Central
In the evening I got word of a pair of 20s working a Bristol – Edinburgh portion forward from Carstairs. I was on Glasgow Central when I found out, but the gen was so late that the only move seemed to be to intercept them at Haymarket. I wasn’t bothered with the insect mileage, so decided not to bother, and let the “mileage men” make their way to Haymarket without me. Just after they left for Glasgow Queen Street, the arrivals board at Glasgow Central showed the relief train from Bristol running 40 minutes late, so there was a move on after all:
85030 1820 Glasgow Central – Carstairs, making a hefty minus connection into:
20205 + 20223 1807 Carstairs – Edinburgh
There was more fun and games to come. 20223 shut down a couple of miles before Kirknewton station. We came to a stop, and restarted the loco, but it wouldn’t take power, so the locos were de-multied, and continued with 20205 dragging 20223 and the portion (which was only load 4). Of course there was much fun at Haymarket, where the “mileage men” boarded to see me there having had the train all the way from Carstairs, and then gleefully advising them that they couldn’t count 20223 as it wasn’t powering!
The day wasn’t over yet: a required 26 was on the Fridays Only Paignton service:
26015 2210 Edinburgh – Carstairs
85008 2255 Carstairs – Carlisle

(Friday 26/07/85)
86237 2330 Glasgow Central – Wolverhampton
Relief to Euston, via Crewe Independent Lines, Basford Hall.
Saturday 27/07/85
31432 0530 Wolverhampton – Nuneaton
DMU Nuneaton – Birmingham New Street
Birmingham New Street on a Summer Saturday morning was a good place to pick up the gen as to what was working, and then to do a headless chicken dance whilst trying to work out where to go next!
43037 + 43xxx 0801 Birmingham New Street – Wolverhampton
86102 0824 Wolverhampton – Preston
DMU Preston – Blackpool North
37031 1145 Blackpool North – Sheffield via Preston, Copy Pit, Greetland, Healey Mills, Wakefield Westgate, Crofton West Jn, Hare Park Jn, Moorthorpe.
31298 1548 Sheffield – Manchester Piccadilly
47056 1725 Manchester Piccadilly – Birmingham New Street
So here we are again. The Manchester – Gatwick was a fine overnight train, with a wide variety of routes and traction involved. The only problem was staying awake enough to register it all. I set off to Stafford to intercept it:
85002 2200 Birmingham New Street – Stafford

Monday 27/07/87
I was nominated to attend a residential course at Crewe, unhappily coinciding with my son’s first birthday:
318 260 + 318 264 1440 Glasgow Central – Carstairs
87001 1521 Carstairs – Crewe
Friday 27/07/90
Off a night shift at Paddington:
43151 + 43171 0715 Paddington – Bristol Temple Meads
37223 0906 Bristol Temple Meads – Weymouth
37223 1159 Weymouth – Westbury via Frome
DMU Westbury – Bath Spa
43179 + 43188 1427 Bath Spa – Reading (and home to bed!)

Tuesday 27/07/99
I had to visit Doncaster for the day, so I chose my trains carefully:
89001 0705 Kings Cross – Doncaster
While I spent the day in Doncaster, 89001 continued on its diagram, but suffered a fault which meant it was only running on half power (2 traction motors instead of 4):
89001 1715 Doncaster – Leeds (25’ late)
At Leeds, it was feared that the 89 wouldn’t be able to make the climb out of Leeds unassisted, so the Doncaster Thunderbird was summoned:
47784 (+89001 dead) 1905 Leeds – Doncaster
At Doncaster the 47 was detached and the 89 continued on half power through to Kings Cross:
89001 1936 Doncaster – Kings Cross (25’ -> 40’ late)
The 89 was subsequently taken out of service for repairs for a lengthy period. On its return to traffic it did one run Kings Cross – Doncaster piloting a 91 on test, then retired to Bounds Green as a carriage heating unit. So by sheer fluke I’d had 89001 on its final (thus far) solo run in normal traffic.
 

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One I missed out on a few days ago - 23rd July 1983:

40177 Newcastle - Darlo 1M75
37115 Darlo - Newcastle 1N13
46037 Durham - Newcastle 1E74

Here is the Syphon after arriving in the Toon:

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27th July 1983 - Day 3 in Scotland:

The overnight from Inverness was booked to get two Duffs in tandem between Perth and Stirling. However, something different happened:

40170 + 47460 Perth - Stirling 1T04

We were in the Edinburgh portion, and my mate was fully dossed out, so no more 40 for us:

47460 Stirling - Waverley 2G10
47711 Waverley - Queen St 1O04
37191 (with 37192 up the bank) Queens St - Oban 1B08
37191 Oban - Queens St 1T32
47706 Queen St - Haymarket 1O41

And time for some more Type 2 leaping:

27021 Haymarket - Inverkeithing 2L52
27012 Inverkeithing - Kirkcaldy 2L54
27018 Kirkcaldy - Waverley 2G03
27050 Waverley - Kirkcaldy 2L58
27012 Kirkcaldy - Waverley 2G16
27017 Kinghorn - Waverley 2G32

And then another overnight back north:

47434 Waverley - Perth 1P04


27th July 1985

The one I posted in error a few days ago...

47411 Newcastle - Darlington 1M73
37030 Darlington - Newcastle 1N35
47367 Newcastle - Durham 1M76
47347 Durham - Newcastle 1E71
 

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Wednesday 28th July 1982

A rather convoluted start to the day for some reason. I appear to have been using a friend's Area 22 ticket whatever that was. Last time out on the 40s for a while before a family wedding and then a family holiday.

Unit Warrington C to Man Picc
47068 Man Vic to Stalybridge, 1E93 09.05 Lime St to Scarborough
45127 Stalybridge to Man Vic, 1M62 07.45 Scarborough to Lime St
40087 Man Vic to Llandudno Junc, 1D29 Man Vic to Holyhead. Why I hadn't just got that in from Warrington on 1J10 is lost in the depths of time.
47454 Llandudno Junc to Chester, 1A56 12.59 Holyhead to Euston
40008 Chester to Llandudno Junc, 1D57 13.45 Man Vic to Bangor
40087 Llandudno Junc to WBQ, 1J53 15.17 Holyhead to Man Vic

Thursday 28th July 1983


And 12 months later I was messing about on the WCML as usual, until the gen reached us that The Bangor (afternoon) was whistling, not the old diagram and not such a frequent occurrence now, so we missed it going westwards.

86233 WBQ to Wigan, 1P16 06.25 Birmingham to Lancaster
47491 Wigan to Preston, 1P22 07.41 Lime St to Edinburgh portion
08846 stock shunt
87007 Preston to Lancaster, 1S45 07.41 Lime St to Edinburgh
86323 Lancaster to Crewe, 1M33 07.20 Glasgow to Birmingham
87034 Crewe to Preston, 1P18 08.35 Euston to Blackpool
87018 Preston to Crewe, 1M57 09.20 Glasgow to Birmingham
304027 (woo) Crewe to Acton Bridge
303066 (woo) Acton Bridge to Crewe
87024 Crewe to WBQ, 1P63 14.00 Euston to Carlisle
86222 WBQ to Crewe, 1V18 13.20 Glasgow to Paddington
47441 Crewe to Llandudno Junc, 1D63 17.34 Crewe to Holyhead
40181 Llandudno Junc to WBQ, 1J31 19.30 Bangor to Man Vic. Got there eventually.
 

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Thursday 28th July 1983

45111 1307 Paddington-Liverpool LS (from Reading to Oxford)
Quite a rarity out of Paddington.

Friday 28/07/78
43070+43090 0952 York – Darlington
37035 1055 Darlington – Newcastle
46039 1214 Newcastle – Edinburgh
27111 + 27106 1430 Edinburgh – Glasgow Queen Street
27102 + 27209 1830 Glasgow Queen Street – Edinburgh
DMU Edinburgh – Inverkeithing
40085 2205 Edinburgh – Newcastle
(29/07/78)
47460 0112 Newcastle – York
A mainly trainspotting trip to Scotland for the day, although I still managed to pick up some decent haulage en route. The trip to Inverkeithing in the evening was to go over the Forth Bridge in a DMU so I could see out of the front window.

Thursday 28/07/83
I took a morning off work to do the Scarborough Spa Express:
34092 0835 York – Scarborough via Harrogate, Leeds, York
DMU 1257 Scarborough – York – this was booked to be a class 31, but obviously they were short again.
Out again in the evening:
31404 1713 York – Malton
31406 1804 Malton – York
34092 1858 York – York via Leeds, Harrogate

Saturday 28/07/84
Having done a Carlisle overnight (not for the first or indeed last time) I would have hoped for something a bit more interesting on the Bristol – Glasgow / Edinburgh overnight:
86207 0316 Carlisle – Carstairs
… but I couldn’t complain about the engine on the portion to Edinburgh …
26010 0427 Carstairs – Edinburgh
I headed up to Dundee for more doss, and to cover the Dundee – Blackpool …
47411 0518 Edinburgh – Dundee
47199 0649 Dundee – Kinghorn
The 0628 Dundee – Edinburgh failed in Kinghorn station platform with 27049, so 47199 was cautioned onto the rear to assist it forward. Whilst they were coupling up, required 37104 stormed through on the ECS of the 0945 Dundee – Kings Cross, so I decided to alight at Kinghorn (where the Dundee – Blackpool was NOT booked to call) and head north to intercept it.
27010 0746 Kinghorn – Dundee, making the dead connection into:
37104 0945 Dundee – Edinburgh
47710 1130 Edinburgh – Glasgow Queen Street
27101 1345 Glasgow Central – Carlisle via Dumfries
47145 1646 Carlisle – Kilmarnock
Bus Kilmarnock – Ayr
37152 2003 Ayr – Glasgow Central (required)
At Glasgow Central I got the gen that 26025 and 26026 were allocated forward from Carlisle to Stranraer on a relief from Euston. It had to be done!
86259 2210 Glasgow Central – Carlisle
(Sunday 29/07/84)
The pair of 26s for the relief Carlisle spluttered into Carlisle station, but only 26026 was running. It seemed 26025 had shut down since leaving Kingmoor depot. After some attempts to batter them in the station, they returned to Kingmoor, to be replaced by the rather unlovely 47228. I needed 47228: I still do!
85008 0319 Carlisle – Glasgow Central via Cathcart Circle.

Sunday 28/07/85
The Manchester – Gatwick overnight on a Saturday night was a wondrous train. It offered an infinite variety of routes and traction, varying from week to week according to the vagaries of the engineering works.
81010 0029 Stafford – Birmingham New Street via Wolverhampton, Bescot, Aston
86101 0137 Birmingham New Street – Bletchley via Northampton
47616 (+86101 dead) 0256 Bletchley – Mitre Bridge Jn
33201 0400 Mitre Bridge Jn – Gatwick Airport via Clapham Jn, Balham, Crystal Palace, Norwood Jn
Then a spell on the Gatwicks:
73127 0635 G – V
73110 0715 V – G
73102 0750 G – V
73122 0850 V – G and 0920 G – V
73138 1000 V – G
That’s quite enough of that thank you. Time to head north once more:
47479 1052 Gatwick Airport – Reading, via Clapham Jn, Kensington Olympia, North Pole Jn, Old Oak Common East Jn
On a Sunday at this time the Reading – Basingstoke service ran through to Portsmouth Harbour, booked to be worked by a 33/1+4TC:
33108 1300 Reading – Basingstoke
33115 1329 Basingstoke – Reading
On arrival at Reading I saw 58016 parked in the middle road between platforms 8 and 9, where the inter-regional 47s usually sat awaiting their turn to work back north. Curious…
I saw somebody I knew, who said it had just arrived on a passenger train from Birmingham, and as far as he knew it was waiting to work back north. Wow!
58016 1522 Reading – Birmingham New Street via Coventry (1322 Poole – Newcastle)
That was my longest – and best – run with a 58.
81010 1818 Birmingham New Street – Euston via Northampton
87018 2240 Euston – Crewe via Northampton

Tuesday 28/07/87
I had to deliver some paperwork to an address in Helsby, so naturally I took the train:
47521 1158 Crewe – Chester
150 252 + 150 103 1323 Chester – Helsby (1120 Holyhead – Hull)
DMU Helsby – Chester via Hooton
150 233 + 150 253 1452 Chester – Crewe (1343 Llandudno – Crewe)
Can you imagine travelling all the way from Holyhead to Hull in a 150 in the height of summer? Not for me, thanks.

Friday 28/07/89
I was working in London, whilst my family remained in the family home in Crewe, whilst we tried to sort out a new house in Reading. This was my eldest son’s third birthday, so I was fortunate to find a decent loco to take me straight home for the holiday weekend:
87001 1430 Euston – Crewe
 

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28th July 1982:

31404 Sunderland - Newcastle 1N04 - getting my 5p worth of haulage

28th July 1983 - time to head north:

47434 Perth - Inverness 1N05
37262 Inverness - Georgemas Jn. 2K03
37035 Georgemas Jn. - Thurso 2K04
37035 Thurso - Georgemas Jn. 2K05
37262 Georgemas Jn. - Inverness 2N26
47118 Inverness - Keith 2A53
26034 + 26040 Keith - Inverness 2N34
26026 + 26037 Inverness - Keith 2A57
47118 Keith - Inverness 2N38
47578 Inverness - Perth 1T04

Two pairs of 26s was very nice, adding to the pair two days earlier, plus the single to Kyle. This trip game me a soft spot for 26s.

28th July 1984 - Doncaster Works Open Day:

47317 Newcastle - Doncaster 1P98

Visit to works, then back to the station in time for the Yarmouth - Newcastle:

37007 Doncaster - Marshgate Jn (i.e. just north of Donny, where it failed) 1N13
08876 Marshgate Jn - Doncaster 1N13

Fortunately, Doncaster depot were able to provide a suitable replacement:

37097 Doncaster - Darlo 1N13
40152 Darlo - Durham 1E34
45044 Durham - Newcastle 1E33

Not a bad day out. Here is 007 before it fagged:

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28th July 2001:

A day out at the Great Central North at Ruddington. Locos in action were:

D4115 + 13180 (double headed), 37667, D9525 and D8048

This was the last time I had a required 37 before I gave up for the best part of two decades.
 

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Quite a rarity out of Paddington.

It seemed to be not uncommon occurrence at the time ! Other records I have, of a Peak on the same train:

1983
Thu 16 Jun 45131
Mon 04 Jul 45137
Thu 27 Oct 45148
Fri 28 Oct 45148 again

1984
Thu 19 Jan 45134
Wed 15 Feb 45115

I have a vague memory of reading somewhere that the loco worked up from Cardiff in the morning and then worked then 1307 towards Birmingham, presumably a triangular diagram with another leg Birmingham-Cardiff.
 

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It seemed to be not uncommon occurrence at the time ! Other records I have, of a Peak on the same train:

1983
Thu 16 Jun 45131
Mon 04 Jul 45137
Thu 27 Oct 45148
Fri 28 Oct 45148 again

1984
Thu 19 Jan 45134
Wed 15 Feb 45115

I have a vague memory of reading somewhere that the loco worked up from Cardiff in the morning and then worked then 1307 towards Birmingham, presumably a triangular diagram with another leg Birmingham-Cardiff.
Learn something every day. I never knew that 45/1s worked such services.
 

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Friday 29/07/83
40074 1710 York – Manchester Victoria
46051 1937 Manchester Victoria – Liverpool Lime Street
EMU Liverpool Lime Street (LL) -Rock Ferry
DMU Rock Ferry – Chester
47451 2154 Chester – Holyhead
A 40 over the Pennines, then a protracted and predominantly rancid trip to Holyhead to cover the 0125 Holyhead – Birmingham New Street, diagrammed for a class 40 as far as Crewe …

Sunday 29/07/84
After my abortive trip to Carlisle (yet another failed attempt to get some interesting traction to Stranraer), I came out in the afternoon once more to see what was about …
27014 1445 Glasgow Central – Kilmarnock
47443 1517 Kilmarnock – Glasgow Central
The 47 was on the 0957 Liverpool Lime Street to Glasgow Central and Edinburgh, which on a Sunday ran via the G&SW then split at Glasgow Central, with the Edinburgh portion being routed via Shotts, which was pretty rare for loco haulage at the time. Better still, they’ve lined up a class 37 to do the job:
37172 1606 Glasgow Central – Haymarket via Shotts
27018 1721 Haymarket – Dalmeny
DMU Dalmeny – Edinburgh
Back at Edinburgh, 37172 had produced again, this time on the 1810 portion to Carstairs, which was the balancing service back to Liverpool.
37172 1810 Edinburgh – Milepost 95 (Curriehill)
Alas, all was not well with 37172, and it gave up at Curriehill. The problem appeared to be fuel starvation. After some delay, an assisting engine arrived …
47006 19xx MP95 – Carstairs.
The 47 propelled the failed train to Midcalder, and ran round there.
That rather spoiled the evening, not helped by the lengthy fester at Carstairs for a train back to Glasgow, which could only manage an 86/2:
86238 2115 Carstairs – Glasgow Central

Monday 29/07/85
The 01:47 Crewe – Cardiff on a Monday morning was diagrammed for a pair of 37s off the Cambrian workings on Saturday:
37194 + 37120 0147 Crewe – Newport
47572 0440 Newport – Paddington
43060 + 43097 0730 Kings Cross – York
Various of the secondary North Trans Pennine services had gone over to loco + stock, mainly with 31/4s:
31414 1020 York – Brough
31452 1130 Brough – Leeds
47445 1227 Leeds – Sheffield
43058 + 43084 1330 Sheffield – Nottingham
DMU Nottingham – Lincoln, Lincoln – Skegness
Yes, it’s the last resort: 20’s out of Skeg:
20007 + 20180 1845 Skegness – Nottingham
20115 + 20166 2051 Nottingham – Leicester
31418 2146 Leicester – Birmingham New Street
85026 2355 Birmingham New Street – Crewe
I needed all four of the 20s, not surprising since I’d not made much of an effort to bash them before. A fine day out.

Monday 29/07/91
47830 1032 Reading – Dover Western Docks
With wife and two young children and a minor luggage mountain, we set off on a family holiday based in Jenbach, Austria. I’ll not trouble you with the full details of the Continental moves in the coming days, just the UK bits. This was routed via Acton, Willesden South West Sidings, Kensington Olympia, Factory Jn., Nunhead, Hither Green, Dartford, and Canterbury East.

Saturday 29/07/95
Another Continental trip, this time a solo trip to bash class 232 diesels in Germany:
47818 0738 Reading – Coventry
47807 0924 Coventry – Ramsgate via Rugby, Kensington Olympia, Factory Jn., Bromley South, Faversham
 

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28/07/87
31152 12:14 Bolton-Sheffield.
47321 17:00 Sheffield-Manchester Victoria
87024 18:35 Manchester Piccadilly-Stockport.
47535 19:20 Stockport-Bolton.

Others noted....
31308 Exeter-Leeds.
47413 Liverpool L St-Newcastle (19:52 ex Man Vic)
47618 Harwich PQ-Sheffield.

An early finish at work let me get a quick trip over the pennines on the AM Blackpool- Nottingham returning on the PM Nottingham to Blackpool, both pretty solid non ETH loco diagrams at this point.
 

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Friday 29th July 1983

You'll be familiar by now with this sort of day of mine from 1983...as is my phone as it is now autocompleting some of the moves lol

87015 WBQ to Crewe, 1A18 06.30 Carlisle to Euston
87017 Crewe to Preston, 1S53 08.07 Birmingham to Glasgow
87007 Preston to Crewe, 1M33 07.20 Glasgow to Birmingham
Just for @xotGD, 33008 (required) on a stock shunt, then a countdown of 87s (Birmingham, Liverpool, Manchester)
87009 Crewe to Preston, 1S59 09.30 Euston to Inverness
87008 Preston to Crewe, 1V90 10.45 Glasgow to Plymouth
87007 Crewe to Preston, 1S71 14.05 Birmingham to Glasgow
86315 Preston to Wigan, Relief Glasgow to Euston
87028 Wigan to Lancaster, 1P63 14.00 Euston to Carlisle
87017 Lancaster to Preston, 1M87 15.20 Glasgow to Nottingham
You know what's coming...
40063 Preston to Lime St, 1M22 16.20 Glasgow to Lime St
Unit home.
 

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Friday 29th July 1983

33045 1246 Portsmouth H-Leeds (Oxford-BNS)
47360 ditto (BNS-Burton)
87026 2120 BNS-Liverpool LS (BNS-Stafford)
86238 2025 Euston-Man Picc (Stafford-Stockport)
86250 2305 Man Picc-Paignton (Stockport-Crewe)
 

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29th July 1982 - another 5p ride:

46035 Sunderland - Newcastle 1N04

29th July 1983 - heading to another corner of Scotland:

47578 + 47586 Perth - Stirling 1T04 (no 40 today)
47586 Stirling - Waverley 2G10
47705 Waverley - Queen St 1O04
27055 Glasgow C. - Ayr 2A15

The kind folks at Ayr decided to swap the loco for us...

27023 Ayr - Stranraer H. 2A15
27023 Stranraer H. - Glasgow C. 1A46
86312 Glasgow C. - Carlisle 1M22

Our fester was disturbed when an arrival from Newcastle was not a 101 DMU, so a slight detour out of validity was required:

40001 Carlisle - Wetheral 2E72
86259 Carlisle - Carstairs 1S81

This was the Perth postal; with hindsight we should have stayed on - probably missed something interesting on the diesel leg.

47408 Carstairs - Waverley 1G30
47489 Waverley - Perth 1P04

Yes, should have stayed on 1S81!

29th July 1989:

31445 Newcastle - Heworth

Pedtastic!
 

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