Back in the day...

[xotGD]

10th October 1984

A unit replacement turn to keep us happy...

37072 Hexham - Dunston 2E48

10th October 1987

I went with a couple of mates to watch Everton v Chelsea. One supporter of each, plus me as a neutral. Getting there was a 304 unit, coming back was:

87023 Lime St - New St 1G62

Everton won 4-1!

 

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Sat 10th Oct 87
47417 13:52 Manchester Victoria-Leeds
47477 16:57 Leeds-York
47417 18:53 York-Manchester Victoria

Others noted…
31124 York-Newcastle(vice 47477 failed on a Liverpool-Newcastle)
45107 1E63 Poole-Newcastle
47401 Newcastle-Liverpool
47407 Newcastle-Liverpool
47413 Liverpool-Newcastle
47440 1M40 Glasgow-Manchester Victoria
47444 1J27 Edinburgh-Manchester Victoria
47470 Carlisle-Leeds
47524 1M26 Blackpool-Derby
47630 Newcastle-Liverpool
47645 York-Luton, Charter

The aim today was having a spin out on a couple of generators.
I suspect it was with (and paid for)by my Dad who like myself had a soft spot for them as I can remember moves to Huddersfield on school nights as a youngster just to have a ride out on them!, In fact it was only Peaks and Generators I recorded mileage on for years.
Haulage wise it was a blank, Sight wise new 142094 was a winner on Neville Hill depot.
On arrival at York 47477(which most certainly wasn’t the hoped-for Generator) duly failed and was eventually replaced by 31124, I remember being a bit surprised that York didn’t have anything more suitable and had a walk round to the sidings which was bare aside from 4 Class 08’s, 20007, 31278 and what looked like a failed 47441!
47630 on the Newcastle-Liverpool wouldn’t have been common (IS based).

 

[D6130]

SATURDAY 10th OCTOBER 1981:

After an overnight stop with a friend's parents between Kenton and Kingsbury:

Jubilee Line: Kingsbury-Wembley Park
Metropolitan Line: Wembley Park-Baker Street
Bakerloo Line: Baker Street-Waterloo
10 10 Waterloo-Salisbury: 33 206 (required for haulage!) Waterloo-Woking. Consist S16220/16198 (Mark 1 CK), S4907/4901 (Mark 1 TSO), S34925 (Mark 1 BSK), S4913 (Mark 1 TSO), S81039 (Mark 1 BG). Load 7 VB/DH
10 18 Waterloo-Portsmouth Harbour: 7845/7747 Woking-Petersfield

WEDNESDAY 10th OCTOBER 2007:

Still staying with friends in the Dordogne, en route to Italy the Long way round:

TER 865600, 13 29 St Antoine-de-Breiuhl-Bergerac: X72611/72612
TER xxxxxx, 18 19 Bergerac-St Antoine-de-Breiuhl: X72612/72611

FRIDAY 10th OCTOBER 2008:

TFT R 1167, 11 26 Pratovecchio Stia-Arezzo: ALe056 137/Le056 137 + ALe056 144/Le056 144 (ex-SNCB/NMBS units 137 & 144)
TFT R 1184, 17 17 Arezzo-Porrena: ETT 22 (a visit to the excellent micro-brewery/pub/pizzeria almost adjacent to the station!)
TFT R 1190, 19 15 Arezzo-Pratovecchio Stia: EBiz 9 (1954-vintage electric railcar) Porrena-Stia

THURSDAY 10th OCTOBER 2013:

A day trip to Florence:

TFT R 1163, 09 28 Pratovecchio Stia-Arezzo: E624 012 + E624 009 (1932-vintage electric railcars with 3 loco-hauled carriages in between!)
RV 1806, 11 00 Arezzo-Firenze SMN: E464 468
RV 2317, 19 09 Firenze SMN-Arezzo: E464 577
Bus: Arezzo-Stia

 

[CW2]

Wednesday 11/10/78
I was obviously determined to get my money’s worth out of the ticket I’d bought. I think it was one of those “3 day-trip tickets”, where you could travel on 3 days out of 7 to a wide range of touristic destinations. My concept of how long a day lasted, and my knowledge of geographical limitations may have been slightly more elastic than intended …
A Deltic overnight move:
55009 0115 York – Doncaster
55005 0320 Doncaster – York
Then back out in the afternoon:
47434 1428 York – Darlington
43078 + 43092 1534 Darlington – York
47552 1613 York – Doncaster
55013 1836 Doncaster – York
That was the end of the Deltic’s daily diagram, so it went onto York depot, refuelled, and then surprisingly was turned out for the 2150 to Shrewsbury, aka the “Bangor Mails”.
55013 2150 York – Leeds
This was just a move to get it to Holbeck depot prior to working to Kings Cross the next morning, so at Leeds it was replaced by:
45006 2250 Leeds – Dewsbury
DMU Dewsbury – Leeds
… another overnight beckons …

Saturday 11/10/81
After staying with a friend in Manchester, we made our way to Manchester Victoria, to cover a charter working from Bolton to Oxford, which was apparently diagrammed for a class 40. It worked!
40032 0841 Manchester Victoria – Oxford via Denton Jn., Stockport, Crewe, Bushbury Jn., Bescot, Stechford, Coventry.
It turned out the charter was being operated by the Mothers’ Union, but they were quite amenable to having a couple of young male railway employees aboard. I could only do it one way, as I had work commitments, so I carried on to Paddington in style:
50044 1445 Oxford – Paddington

Tuesday 11/10/83
I learned that 40057 was out and about on the trans-Pennine services, so after work I set out to have it:
DMU Leeds – Huddersfield
40057 1430 Huddersfield – York
The 40 was removed at York as booked, having worked all the way from Bangor. I waited to see what turn – if any – it would appear on next:
40057 1710 York – Stalybridge
47455 1904 Stalybridge – Leeds

Wednesday 11/10/89
After a night shift at Paddington, there was some entertainment on offer with the 0718 to Wolverhampton:
31430 0718 Paddington – Wolverhampton via Coventry
90034 1035 Wolverhampton – Crewe
I went home at Crewe for a few hours, before heading south to London once more:
86248 1538 Crewe – Euston

Wednesday 11/10/00
91020 0830 Kings Cross – Doncaster
91013 1555 Doncaster – Kings Cross

 

[xotGD]

11th October 1997

A trip to the SVR. I was with my other half, so moves were more limited than the usual day rover flapping about:

D7633 Kidderminster - Bewdley
D1062 Bewdley - Hampton Loade
50031 Hampton Loade - Bridgenorth
50031 Bridgenorth - Kidderminster

 

[D6130]

Nothing much for today....just a short local journey in Italy. I wouldn't normally post unit only days, but our local 'privately'-owned electrified branch line (actually owned nowadays by a consortium of local authorities) is - or was until the pandemic - a veritable working museum of vintage secondhand locos and units, some dating as from as far back as 1924! On this date, however, we had the same modern (2006) unit for both trips....a sign of things to come!

SATURDAY 11th OCTOBER 2008:

TFT R 1161, 08 47 Pratovecchio Stia-Poppi: ETT 22
TFT R 6171, 13 07 Poppi-Bibbiena: ETT 22
Lift in a friend's car: Bibbiena-Stia (Sorry....can't remember the make, model, year or registration number! )

 

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Sun 11th Oct 87
47473 10:15 Bolton-Manchester Victoria(Carlisle-Manchester Victoria)
47590 11:22 Manchester Piccadilly-Stockport(Manchester Piccadilly-London Paddington)
47249 13:00 Manchester Piccadilly-Stockport(1V78 Manchester Piccadilly-Penzance)
47558 15:18 Stockport-Manchester Piccadilly
87019 15:34 Manchester Piccadilly-Stockport
85011 16:48 Stockport-Manchester Piccadilly
47630 16:58 Manchester Piccadilly-Birchwood(1M20 Sheffield-Liverpool)
47625 18:26 Manchester Piccadilly-Stockport(Manchester Piccadilly-Cardiff)
31446 18:49 Stockport-Manchester Piccadilly(Sheffield-Liverpool)

Others noted…..
47473(with 86417)Glasgow-London Euston, WCML Diversion
47632(with 86248)WCML Diversion
47649 Blackpool-London Euston, WCML Diversion
47649(with 87023)Birmingham NST-Glasgow, WCML Diversion

Haulage wise today's winner was the unexpected 47249 which produced on 1V78.
Of the rest Inverness’s 47630 which I noted yesterday on North Trans Pennine work had obviously been kept at Edge Hill and put to use today on South Trans Pennine work vice a Class 31/4!

 

[NorthWestRover]

I have got my 40 and 87 listings now, so will be able to fill in some gaps. Very pleased about that. All that is missing now are 47/4s and 86/2s that fall outside my surviving moves books. Not too bothered about that. Oh, and every train I travelled on from 1993 to August 2018 also missing.

 

[irish_rail]

......

 

[CW2]

Thursday 12/10/78
47524 0040 Leeds – Doncaster
At Doncaster I had a choice of trains to take me home to York, and a nice warm bed, or I could hang around for hours on the platform and hope I might get a class 40. The one sure bet for a 40 was the 0120 Manchester Piccadilly – Cleethorpes newspaper train, which also conveyed a BSK. This wasn’t an advertised passenger service, so travelling on it was very much at the whim of the guard. Tonight my luck was in:
40113 0327 Doncaster – Cleethorpes
My first ever visit to Cleethorpes – and I arrive in style!
Now to get out of the place again. There is an 0707 to Kings Cross, but that is pretty solid ETH 47 on Air Cons, but I can’t see any such coaches around – there’s just a rake of steam heat Mk 1s, a Kings Cross Outer Suburban set as used on the Peterborough services. I snuggled down in a nice warm DMU, waiting to go back to Doncaster, when 40067 arrives and buffers up to the Mk 1 rake, to form the service to Kings Cross. I leapt out of the DMU as it was already on the move departing from Cleethorpes, getting a (well-deserved) telling off from the puzzled guard. I apologized to him – I had other things to worry about – like more new class 40 track:
40067 0707 Cleethorpes – Peterborough via Lincoln St Marks, Newark Northgate
47156 0952 Peterborough – Sheffield via Grantham, Nottingham, Alfreton
47101 1229 Sheffield – Leeds
55018 1330 Leeds – Doncaster
55013 1459 Doncaster – York

Wednesday 12/10/83
As part of my training for work in Leeds Control, I was given the opportunity of spending a day with the Traffic Manager based at Huddersfield, and visiting a number of the manual boxes in his area.
47524 0954 York – Huddersfield
We went to Elland, Greetland, Halifax, Milner Royd, Sowerby Bridge, and Hebden Bridge boxes before I returned to Leeds to visit Leeds PSB. An excellent and instructive day out, despite the rather grisly motive power:
47477 1529 Huddersfield – Leeds
47472 1801 Leeds – York

Friday 12/10/84
We’d run out of working 47/7s, so 47614 was pressed into service on E&G push pulls:
47614 1930 Glasgow Queen Street – Edinburgh
47614 2030 Edinburgh – Glasgow Queen Street
Curiously it still lives on as 47614 under the care of LSL, although it is really 47853. It does look very smart though, in the livery of this period complete with Scotty Dog.

Wednesday 12/10/88
86236 1815 Crewe – Stafford
Attending a Continental Railway Circle slide show.
47553 2207 Stafford – Crewe

 

[xotGD]

I normally don't bother with Class 91 days, but as I've got nothing else to report today...

12th October 1991

91003 Doncaster - Haymarket
Beer
Hearts 1 Dunfermline 0
More beer
91016 Haymarket - Newcastle

 

[CW2]

Saturday 13/10/84
47710 1900 Glasgow Queen Street – Edinburgh
27018 2018 Edinburgh – Dundee
DMU Dundee – Perth
At Perth I awaited the arrival of the overnight portions from Glasgow and Edinburgh, which were held at Perth until 0400 Sunday morning …

Sunday 13/10/85
37088 1505 Glasgow Central – Kilmarnock
37012 1557 Kilmarnock – Stranraer
37012 1830 Stranraer – Paisley Gilmour Street
A nice Sunday afternoon 37 bash.

Sunday 13/10/91
With London Euston closed for engineering operations, some Liverpool services are being diverted from Nuneaton, dragged via Wigston to Bedford, where the trains were continuing under their own power with electric traction to St Pancras, presenting the rare opportunity to go to / from St Pancras with electric loco traction. The booked traction was all 86s and 87s, but I hoped a 90 might produce too…
43035 + 43xxx 1252 Reading – Paddington
87002 1545 St Pancras – Bedford
At Bedford it was announced that the 1158 Liverpool – Euston was being delayed. It turned out that the 86 that was originally on the train failed at Nuneaton, so they had to borrow a stabled class 90 at short notice:
90022 1606 Bedford – St Pancras
Success! I subsequently had 90022 at Kings Cross and Euston on service trains as well, so three different London Termini. I never had it out of Liverpool Street, alas.
43173 + 43133 1855 Paddington – Reading

 

[xotGD]

13th October 1982

37088 Newcastle - Cramlington 1S15

(Exactly 3 years before @CW2 had it to Kilmarnock.)

13th October 1984

45135 Newcastle - Durham 1M76
45123 Durham - Newcastle 1E08

13th October 1990

A day at the footy...

47831 New St - Oxford

Oxford United 0 Newcastle United 0

47852 Oxford - New St

Two Twanks and no goals - a grand day out!

13th October 2000

Returning from holiday:

73209 Gatwick - Victoria

 

[CW2]

Friday 14/10/83
Another day out from Leeds Control for my training. Today I am to visit the depot at Healey Mills, to get to know the layout and the staff:
45135 0854 York – Huddersfield
DMU Huddersfield – Healey Mills
(This was the Huddersfield – Wakefield DMU that had a Special Stop Order at Healey Mills to set me down). After the visit:
Bus, Healey Mills – Wakefield Westgate
45117 1442 Wakefield Westgate – Leeds
45122 1500 Leeds- York

Sunday 14/10/84
I’ve already told this day’s story here:
https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/27s-in-the-highlands.213455/#post-4970674
Suffice be it to say I had rather a lot of mileage off 47002 that day.

Monday 14/10/85
37088 1545 Glasgow Central – Carlisle via G&SW
86101 1943 Carlisle- Glasgow Central
At Glasgow Central I saw that 37012 was on the 2157 to Stranraer, so I concocted a bash that involved taking that to Ayr for the 2200 Stranraer – Euston to Carlisle, straight back onto the corresponding Euston – Stranraer working (which was booked to get a pilot loco from Ayr to Stranraer), then back to Glasgow with 37012.
The plans were shattered as soon as Shields Junction, where a points failure stranded us until 2330, missing all my connections – and also my last train home. So I was stuck with a Stranraer overnight. It wouldn’t have been so bad, but the boiler shut down, and it got very cold indeed.
37012 2157 Glasgow Central - Stranraer
(Tuesday 15/10/85)
After an unpleasant chilly fester at Stranraer, I found that 27045 (with a working boiler) had been turned out for the trip back to Glasgow Central, and that the pilot loco off the overnight from Euston was also going to pilot us back to Ayr: required 20171:
27045 0730 Stranraer – Glasgow Central
20171 pilot 0730 Stranraer – Ayr

Wednesday 14/10/87
86431 1748 Crewe – Stafford
Attending a Continental Railway Circle slide show
85019 2132 Stafford – Crewe

Friday 14/10/88
87021 1256 Crewe – Oxenholme
85008 1433 Oxenholme – Watford Junction
86226 1816 Watford Junction – Crewe

Saturday 14/10/89
86204 1330 Euston – Crewe

 

[xotGD]

14th October 1989

A day out at the SVR. Haulages from:

D9000, D1013, D9016, D1062, D7633, D100 and a kettle/Deltic combo with 4566+D9016.

"svrwiki" tells me that 4566 is a GWR Churchward 4500 class 2-6-2T 'Small Prairie'. Two Deltics and two Westerns in the same day isn't bad going. I guess in the early seventies you could have gone from Peterborough to Reading and back to achieve the same result.

14th October 1990

Four return trips from Brum to Wolves on my travelcard. Haulages from:

86219, 87027, 86240, 86236, 86401, 87029, 90038 and 90011.

Too many Cans there for my liking.

 

[NorthWestRover]

I have got my 40 and 87 listings now, so will be able to fill in some gaps.

Oh my goodness, my memory is awful. I had forgotten some great moves. I'm only up to 40077 in adding them to my log, but I'll do a catch up on here of September and October 1982 in due course or fill in the gaps from those weird days when it looked like I was rat bashing on the North Wales Coast.

 

[D6130]

Playing catch-up again, as I've been away for a few days for my birthday!

MONDAY 12th OCTOBER 1981:

15 00 Euston-Carlisle: 86 237 Consist: M9536 (Mark 2f BSO), M6004/5959/6181/5944/6113 (Mark 2f TSO), M10006 (Mark 3a RFB), M3439/3367/3344 (Mark 2f FO), M81123 (Mark 1 BG). Load 11 AB/EH/AC.

MONDAY 12th OCTOBER 2009:

A birthday trip to Florence, with lunch in a nice restaurant:

TFT R 167, 08 43 Pratovecchio Stia-Arezzo: ETT 23
R 2306, 09 57 Arezzo-Firenze SMN: E464 093
R 2317, 19 13 Firenze SMN-Arezzo: E464 093
Having just missed the last connection for Stia, it was a birthday night in a hotel in Arezzo!

TUESDAY 12th OCTOBER 2010:

A day out to Lake Trasimeno with friends on my birthday:
RRB: Stia-Arezzo
R 31xx, 11 31 Arezzo-Passignano: E464 354
Ferry to Isola Maggiore for lunch on the island and then back again.
R 3172, 18 08 Passignano-Arezzo: E464 514
TFT R 1190, 19 15 Arezzo-Pratovecchio Stia: ALe056 142/Le056 142 + ALe056 149/Le056 149 (ex-SNCB/NMBS units 142 & 149)

SATURDAY 12th OCTOBER 2013:

A birthday trip to Perugia:

TFT R 1159, 07 28 Pratovecchio Stia-Arezzo: Le054 961/ALe054 961 + Le054 965/ALe054 965 (ex-SNCB/NMBS postal units 961 & 965)
RV 3153, 09 13 Arezzo-Perugia: E464 368
Perugia Minimetro car 19: Fontivegge-Pincetto
Perugia Minimetro car 16: Pincetto-Fontivegge
RV 3176, 17 39 Perugia-Arezzo: E464 671
TFT R 1190, 19 15 Arezzo-Pratovecchio Stia: E464 880

SATURDAY 13th OCTOBER 2007:

After a birthday sojourn with friends in the Dordogne, it was time to head for Italy:

TER 865xxx, 09 12 Ste Foy-la-Grande-Bordeaux St Jean: X72617/72618
TEOZ 4657, 11 03 Bordeaux St Jean-Marseille St Charles: BB 7408
TGV 6819, 17 30 Marseille St Charles-Nice Ville: 43
EC 369, 21 07 Nice Ville-Ventimiglia: BB 22334.

MONDAY 13th OCTOBER 2008:

En route back to UK from Italy, staying overnight with friends in Chieri, near Torino:

TFT R 1161, 08 47 Pratovecchio Stia-Arezzo: ETT 23
IC 582, 10 53 Arezzo-Milano Centrale: E444 075
RV 10xxx, 16 15 Milano Centrale-Torino Porta Susa: E632 062
Car: Torino-Chieri

WEDNESDAY 13th OCTOBER 2010:

A day trip to Rome:

TFT R 1155, 06 23 Pratovecchio Stia-Arezzo: ALe056 137/Le 056 137 + Ale056 143/Le056 143 (ex-SNCB/NMBS units 137 & 143)
ES 9501 07 36 Arezzo-Roma Termini: E404 505 + E404 507 (Frecciarossa unit 37)
IC 594, 16 36 Roma Termini-Arezzo: E444 029
TFT R 1190, 19 15 Arezzo-Pratovecchio Stia: Le056 142/ALe056 142 + Le056 149/ALe056 149 (ex-SNCB/NMBS units 142 & 149)

THURSDAY 13th OCTOBER 2011:

A day trip to a beautiful village in the Pratomagno Mountains in Eastern Tuscany:

TFT R 167, 11 00 Pratovecchio Stia-Rassina: ALe056 142/Le056 142 + ALe056 149/Le056 149 (ex-SNCB/NMBS units 142 & 149)
Bus: Rassina-Talla
Bus: Talla-Rassina
TFT R 184, 17 53 Rassina-Pratovecchio Stia

SATURDAY 13th OCTOBER 2012:

Off to Italy again immediately after my early retirement, staying overnight with friends near Sierre in Switzerland:

ES 9018, 10 24 London St Pancras Int-Paris Nord: 373 218/217
RER Line D: Gare du Nord-Gare de Lyon
TGV 9775, 15 10 Paris Lyon-Geneve Cornavin: 735
IR xxxx, 18 33 Geneve Cornavin-Sierre: 460 029-2

WEDNESDAY 14th OCTOBER 1981:

12 05 Birmingham New Street-Glasgow Central/Edinburgh Waverley: 86 227 Carlisle-Glasgow Central. Consist of Glasgow portion: M9446 (Mark 2c BSO), M13588 (Mark 2f FK), M1651 (Mark 1 RBR), M5919/6139/5880 (Mark 2e/f TSO). Consist of Edinburgh portion: M6164/5937/5938 (Mark 2f TSO),
M14119 (Mark 2f BFK). Load 10 AB/EH to Carstairs.

SUNDAY 14th OCTOBER 2007:

Continuing our long journey from South-Western France to Central Italy:

IC 657, 08 58 Ventimiglia-Genova Piazza Principe: E402 018
IC 523, 12 52 Genova PP-Viareggio: E402 162
R 3067, 15 11 Viareggio-Firenze SMN via Lucca and Pistoia: E464 359
R 2315, 17 09 Firenze SMN-Arezzo: E656 575
TFT R 186, 18 22 Arezzo-Pratovecchio Stia: ETT 21

TUESDAY 14th OCTOBER 2008:

After spending the night with friends in Chieri, we're heading back to England again:

GTT R xxxx, 08 41 Chieri-Torino Porta Susa: ETR Y0530/005/001/007 (EMU)
EC 9242, 09 40 Torino Porta Susa-Paris Lyon via Aix-les-Bains: TGV 4501
RER Line D: Gare de Lyon-Gare du Nord
ES 9043, 16 13 Paris Nord-London St Pancras Int: 373 005/006

FRIDAY 14th OCTOBER 2011:

A day trip to Bibbiena for lunch with friends:

TFT R 167, 11 00 Pratovecchio Stia-Bibbiena: ALe056 142/Le056 142 + ALe056 149/Le056 149
TFT R 1180, 16 19 Bibbiena-Pratovecchio Stia: Le056 149/ALe056 149 + Le056 142/ALe056 142

SUNDAY 14th OCTOBER 2012:

A walk with friends from Sierre to Salgesch in Switzerland, returning by train:

R xxxxx, 15 31 Salgesch-Sierre: RA 04 (560 404)

MONDAY 14th OCTOBER 2013:

Heading back to England with an overnight stop in Milano and a great evening in the superb Lambrate micro-brewery pub!:

TFT R 1167, 10 52 Pratovecchio Stia-Arezzo: EDz 13 + EDz 12 top 'n' tail (small electric locomotives built in 1924 and subsequently rebuilt twice!)
RV 3158, 12 43 Arezzo-Firenze SMN: E464 092
Italo NTV 9934, 14 25 Firenze SMN-Milano Porta Garibaldi: ETR575 10
Metro Line 2: Moscova-Lambrate FS
Metro Line 2: Lambrate FS-Porta Garibaldi

 

[CW2]

Saturday 15/10/77
31213 1557 Leeds – Sheffield
DMU Sheffield – Doncaster
47431 1811 Doncaster – Leeds

Monday 15/10/79
I was studying Music at City University, London, so time for bashing 40s was rather limited. However I did keep in touch with some of the local bashers. One evening a couple of weeks into term I wandered down to Kings Cross to remind myself what a class 40 looked like – and there I found my machine, 40069, in the process of attaching to the 2015 to Edinburgh. Well, it would be rude not to:
40069 2015 Kings Cross – York
(Tuesday 16/10/79)
York was as far as I could sensibly go, and still get back overnight, so I bade farewell to 40069, and after a short wait walked straight onto another 40 all the way back to The Cross:
40184 0244 York – Kings Cross
This dropped from 15’ late to 30’ late, possibly making additional stops.
That’s my idea of a good night out – a view my newly-acquired girlfriend was never going to understand!

Wednesday 15/10/80
One year on, and I’m back at Kings Cross again, still hunting Class 40s. My personal circumstances have changed though, in that I’ve dropped out of university and joined the railways.
40065 2000 Kings Cross – Peterborough
We departed 3 minutes late, and ran rather cautiously to Peterborough, where the loco was removed due to a defective speedometer. Cheers. The best that Peterborough could offer was:
31291 2115 Peterborough – York. We left 19’ late, and arrived York 30’ late, the 31 struggling on load 12. At York this loco was declared a failure due to “Defective fire bell, dangerous steam-heat boiler, low oil pressure, high water temperature, oil on the engine room floor, and ‘Don’t shut it down for God’s sake, or it’ll never get going again’”.
At York, 40075 replaced the ailing 31. It took 20 minutes to get the loco off shed, then a further 25 minutes to discover the boiler was irrevocably dead.
40075 2323 York – Darlington. 75 minutes late.
(Thursday 16/10/80)
55018 0139 Darlington – Kings Cross

Wednesday 15/10/86
87003 1510 Glasgow Central – Crewe

Saturday 15/10/88
An unusual day …
86213 0510 Crewe – Euston
This was the 2050 Inverness – Euston, and was running very late. It was booked to run via Birmingham, but was diverted via the Trent Valley due to the late running. 92’->29’ late.
73206 0930 Victoria – Gatwick Airport
EMU 2107 + 1729 Gatwick Airport – Brighton
On the odd occasion the 1105 SO Brighton – Plymouth produced a class 50 out of Brighton. On this occasion it was known about in advance, so a fair few 50 bashers produced for this opportunity.
50027 1105 Brighton – Southampton via Cosham
2418 + 2405 Southampton – Basingstoke
47651 1549 Basingstoke – Bournemouth
At Bournemouth I waited for the second highlight of the day, the 1530 Waterloo – Weymouth. This was booked to be worked from Bournemouth to Weymouth and return by a class 73 ED operating on electric power – following the recent electrification through to Weymouth. This was reportedly the first ever ED to Weymouth on electric (unless anyone knows different):
73107 1709 Bournemouth – Weymouth
73107 1856 Weymouth – Bournemouth
At Bournemouth, Wessex EMU 2003 replaced 73107, and I continued through to Waterloo.
87027 2320 Euston – Crewe

Sunday 15/10/95
43030 + 43127 1335 Reading – Newport
158 821 Newport – Cardiff
37411 1610 Cardiff – Birmingham New Street via Chepstow, Gloucester, Lickey
47814 1905 Birmingham New Street – Reading
A nice run from Cardiff to New Street with a 37/4.

 

[xotGD]

15th October 1983

45125 Newcastle - Durham 1M75
45015 Durham - Newcastle 1E79
40160 Newcastle - Morpeth 1S15

A 40 on 1S15 was a nice end to the day. I presume it didn't work 1M04 that morning, or else I'd have had a day in Carlisle. So thank you Kingmoor depot.

45015 now has some notoriety for its state of decrepitude, neither preserved nor scrapped.

 

[NorthWestRover]

Saturday 15th October 1983

Whilst @xotGD was doing Peaks and a 40, I was on the Goyles (good) with Cans (bad) at the start and end of the day.

86230 WBQ to Crewe, 1A18 06.30 Carlisle to Euston
86243 Crewe to Birmingham NS, 1V72 08.25 Man Picc to Cardiff
31422 Birmingham NS to Leicester, 1E64 10.15 Birmingham to Norwich
31187 (required) Leicester to Birmingham NS, 1M66 09.03 Cambridge to Birmingham
31426 (required) Birmingham NS to Leicester, 1E66 13.15 Birmingham to Norwich
31405 (required) Leicester to Nuneaton, 1M67 11.15 Norwich to Birmingham NS
31187 Nuneaton to Leicester, 1E79 15.25 Birmingham NS to Cambridge
31424 Leicester to Nuneaton, 1M68 14.14 Norwich to Birmingham NS
31415 Nuneaton to Hinckley, 1E82 18.18 Birmingham to Norwich
31421 Hinckley to Nuneaton, 1M76 16.45 Norwich to Birmingham
86204 Nuneaton to Warrington BQ, 1P49 19.15 Euston to Carlisle

 

[D6130]

SATURDAY 15th OCTOBER 2011:

En route to visit friends in Asciano, near Siena, before travelling on a steam-hauled special the following day:

TFT R 179, 15 41 Pratovecchio Stia-Arezzo: ETT 22
TFT R 1033, 17 32 Arezzo-Sinalunga: ETT 24
R 6862, 19 13 Sinalunga-Asciano Monte Oliveto Maggiore: ALn668 3200/3133

TUESDAY 15th OCTOBER 2013:

Back to Yorkshire after a boozy night in Milano:

EC 9244, 08 50 Milano Porta Garibaldi-Paris Lyon via Aix-les-Bains: TGV 4502
RER Line D: Gare de Lyon-Gare du Nord
ES 9051, 17 57 Paris Nord-London St Pancras Int: 373 012/011

 

[xotGD]

Saturday 15th October 1983

Whilst @xotGD was doing Peaks and a 40, I was on the Goyles (good) with Cans (bad) at the start and end of the day.

86230 WBQ to Crewe, 1A18 06.30 Carlisle to Euston
86243 Crewe to Birmingham NS, 1V72 08.25 Man Picc to Cardiff
31422 Birmingham NS to Leicester, 1E64 10.15 Birmingham to Norwich
31187 (required) Leicester to Birmingham NS, 1M66 09.03 Cambridge to Birmingham
31426 (required) Birmingham NS to Leicester, 1E66 13.15 Birmingham to Norwich
31405 (required) Leicester to Nuneaton, 1M67 11.15 Norwich to Birmingham NS
31187 Nuneaton to Leicester, 1E79 15.25 Birmingham NS to Cambridge
31424 Leicester to Nuneaton, 1M68 14.14 Norwich to Birmingham NS
31415 Nuneaton to Hinckley, 1E82 18.18 Birmingham to Norwich
31421 Hinckley to Nuneaton, 1M76 16.45 Norwich to Birmingham
86204 Nuneaton to Warrington BQ, 1P49 19.15 Euston to Carlisle

You might have had a hat-full of 31s, but I think a single 40 beats them!

 

[NorthWestRover]

Oh, I agree. I only had 160 once - a few weeks earlier from St Helens Junc to Lime St on a Ned leap.

Now I've got my 40 moves up to date, I know I had 94 of them in total.

 

[xotGD]

Oh, I agree. I only had 160 once - a few weeks earlier from St Helens Junc to Lime St on a Ned leap.

Now I've got my 40 moves up to date, I know I had 94 of them in total.

Nice work! Just a pity that you didn’t score a few more to make it to half the class.

 

[SteveM70]

45015 now has some notoriety for its state of decrepitude, neither preserved nor scrapped.

I like to think that it’s in the process of scrapping itself

 

[NorthWestRover]

Nice work! Just a pity that you didn’t score a few more to make it to half the class.

If I'd just started six months earlier, I probably would have managed it. Ah well. I've had all of the preserved ones, of course.

 

[xotGD]

If I'd just started six months earlier, I probably would have managed it. Ah well. I've had all of the preserved ones, of course.

I know the feeling. If I'd started a few months earlier I'd have had rather more than 3 Deltics in 1981. At least I had 3.

 

[CW2]

Saturday 16/10/82
The “Westward Whistler”, one of the first railtours operated by the Class Forty Preservation Society, of which I was a founder member:
40057 + 40084 0600 York – Plymouth via Leeds, Viaduct, Moorthorpe, Sheffield, Birmingham New Street, Cheltenham Spa
40084 + 40057 1500 Plymouth – York, route as above + Camp Hill

Tuesday 16/10/84
81007 0039 Motherwell – Carlisle
We descended Beattock at a stately 10 mph, as the preceding Perth – Carlisle Postals with 86321 had struck something that had fallen off a passing Freightliner train. 75’ late into Carlisle.
87018 0346 Carlisle – Glasgow Central
I went back to my digs for some more sleep, then back out for another late shift, and straight onto:
85035 2350 Glasgow Central – Birmingham New Street

Thursday 16/10/86
Saying farewell to wife and kids in Crewe, I headed south once more, back to work in London:
86207 0344 Crewe – Euston

Sunday 16/10/88
It’s dragging time! The Euston – Birmingham / Wolverhampton services are all diverted from Rugby via Nuneaton, from whence they are scheduled to be diesel-hauled by anything that’s available on Saltley and up to the task (or possibly not …)
47647 0831 Crewe – Birmingham New Street
58015 (+86234 dead) 1058 Birmingham New Street – Nuneaton
I was off to a good start with a required 58, but at Nuneaton it became apparent that I’d fallen into a black hole for a couple of hours, so I took the following train right through to Euston:
86437 1157 Nuneaton – Euston (24’ early into Euston!)
90009 1400 Euston – Nuneaton
58011 (+90009 dead) 1552 Nuneaton – Birmingham New Street
Another 58 scored. There was another one available to bag, 58010, but to get it I would have to suffer 47661 …
The 1312 (Sundays) Preston – Euston via Birmingham New Street was an unusual train in that it was formed of a set of 13 vacuum braked NSE Mk1 coaches. Earlier that day, whilst I’d been making my round trip to Euston, 47661 had failed on the drags and been replaced by 47321 for one trip. However Saltley sent 47661 back out again, “No Fault Found”.
47661 (+86257 dead) 1657 Birmingham New Street – Nuneaton
We made it as far as Daw Mill Colliery, 47661 spluttering to an utter standstill there. After 20 minutes or so of filling the surrounding countryside with thick black smog, but failing to move a single inch, assistance was called for. The traincrew decided to get assistance from the train behind. At this point, several people pointed out to the traincrew that the train behind would be a class 58-hauled drag, and that they were proposing to assist a failed vacuum brake train in rear by an air braked train, which is not only illegal but also potentially deadly, since the lead loco would have no control over the brakes. Throw in the presence of Arley Tunnel for good measure, and you have a lethal recipe for chaos.
Well, the traincrew just went ahead and did at anyway – and subsequently I checked the RCO Crewe Logs and found no mention of the event, so it was seemingly all swept under the carpet. It was a pity it was too dark for photography, with the lineup being:
47661 large logo blue
86257 (dead) Inter City
13 VB Mk 1 NSE coaches (12 in NSE livery + 1 Blue / Grey)
58011 Railfreight red / grey
90009 (dead) Inter City Swallow
11 AB Mk 2 Air Con coaches, Inter City.
Assistance in rear was provided by the 58 from SY327 signal to SY337 signal, 3.75 miles, including through Arley Tunnel. We stopped once we reached the down gradient, unhooked, then the 58 gave us a hefty shove so that we could trundle across the WCML and into the platform at Nuneaton. 47661 was removed from the train by an 08 shunter, as it lacked the strength to even buffer up. On arrival at Nuneaton I didn’t have long to wait for my third required 58 of the day:
58010 (+86103 dead) 2002 Nuneaton – Birmingham New Street
Back at New Street, I’d decided to head north on the Euston – Fort William overnight, but there was time for another Nuneaton trip first:
47142 (+87101 dead) 2102 Birmingham New Street – Nuneaton
58011 2133 Nuneaton – Birmingham New Street
86209 2322 Birmingham New Street – Mossend

Monday 16/10/89
86102 1434 Crewe - Euston
Monday 16/10/95
For a short while after Eurostar started to run services to Paris and Bruxelles, a set of “Eurostar Link” services were provided from across the UK to London Waterloo, provided by HSTs. These did a few rare curves, so had to be done:
43097 + 43068 1345 London Waterloo – Peterborough, via Sheepcote Lane, Hampstead Tunnel, Kings Cross Incline
91025 1547 Peterborough – Kings Cross
91001 1700 Kings Cross – York (Did KX – York in 99 minutes).
91021 1942 York – Kings Cross

 

[Falcon1200]

13th October 1990

A day at the footy...

47831 New St - Oxford

Oxford United 0 Newcastle United 0

47852 Oxford - New St

Sounds like another hard-earned point for the not so mighty Oxford United during our long decline from the giddy heights of the old First Division, and League Cup win, to non-league football ! Oh for an immensely wealthy foreign benefactor......

Anyway;
Tuesday 16th October 1984
50033 0940 Poole-Newcastle (Oxford-Birmingham New St)
81008 0730 Penzance-Glasgow C (from Birmingham New St)

 

[NorthWestRover]

Saturday 16th October 1982

My railtour wasn't as good as the one taken by @CW2. In fact, I'm not sure what mine was as it doesn't appear on Six Bells Junction, but the duffs were clearly not on service trains. Some sort of Rail Rambler or Merrymaker perhaps to Bristol. The hoovers were probably on service trains...

47171 Warrington BQ to Hereford
47248 Hereford to Bristol TM
50029 Bristol TM to Gloucester
50002 Cheltenham to Gloucester
50029 Gloucester to Bristol TM
47059 Bristol TM to Warrington BQ

The duffs were all required as was 50029. I assume the missing leap from Gloucester to Cheltenham was either an ETH Duff or a tram.