Back in the day...

[xotGD]

Great! You must have a pretty good camera!

Those last two were just taken on my phone. Yesterday's were with an SLR. I think you can notice a difference.

 

[CW2]

K&WVR is a splendid railway. I must try to visit some time this summer.
That railbus looks interesting - I've never travelled on it, nor (to the best of my memory) even seen it.

 

[xotGD]

K&WVR is a splendid railway. I must try to visit some time this summer.
That railbus looks interesting - I've never travelled on it, nor (to the best of my memory) even seen it.

It is entertaining. Like the long-lost ancestor of the Pacers. There is a second one there too but the decision has been taken that it will only be restored as a static exhibit.

 

[xotGD]

Final offering for today, phots from a trip to the East Lancs in March







A bit confusing when the railway is home to both 1501 and D1501. The Gronk had brought in the stock for a Poshex, but I don't think it actually worked the train. 33109 was my wife's fourth Crompton for haulage - she's becoming a bit of a fan.

 

[CW2]

Tuesday 18/04/78
46039 1123 York – Leeds
47550 1206 Leeds – York
47410 1555 York – Leeds
46039 1706 Leeds – York

Friday 18/04/80
Now on my 12th consecutive overnight, and the pace is beginning to tell. I boarded the 0050 Euston – Manchester and fell fast asleep by 2330, and woke up in Manchester, with the loco from Stafford having already been released.
86206 0050 Euston – Stafford
862xx (assumed) 0300 Stafford – Manchester Piccadilly via Stoke
85038 1023 Manchester Piccadilly – Birmingham New Street via Stoke
50042 1325 Birmingham New Street – Paddington via Solihull, Reading
81022 1723 Euston – Bletchley
87035 1806 Bletchley – Euston
85020 2050 Euston – Rugby
85018 2208 Rugby – Crewe
Of these locos, 85038, 81022 and 85018 were all required. The 13th overnight beckoned …

Saturday 18/04/81 (Featured in Part 2 of this thread)
Some sort of social engagement, I think …
45121 1212 St Pancras – St Albans
Hydraulic DMU St Albans - St Pancras

Sunday 18/04/82
After the fun of the CFPS special from Liverpool Street to York, I had to return home to London straight away. My hopes for some interesting motive power were quickly thwarted:
47410 0103 York – Kings Cross via Selby

Wednesday 18/04/84
Today was the public launch into service of the class 141 DMUs in West Yorkshire. After working the early shift in Leeds Control I came out for a run with them:
141 007 (55507 + 55527) 1400 Leeds – Knottingley and 1500 return.
40122 1600 Leeds – Skipton
DMU Skipton – Leeds
47488 1801 Leeds – York

Thursday 18/04/87
I finished a night shift in Glasgow Control, then came straight out to travel to Abergavenny, where my wife and son were staying with the in-laws. As I needed some sleep, I chose trains with compartments and a good chance of dossing soundly for a few hours:
47620 0725 Glasgow Central – Carlisle via Dumfries
47621 1040 Carlisle – Leeds via Settle
Consecutive trains, consecutive numbered 47s.
31446 1400 Leeds – Sheffield via Viaduct, Moorthorpe
31433 1448 Sheffield – Manchester Piccadilly via New Mills, Romiley
A minor track bash intervened at this point:
DMU Manchester Piccadilly – Chester via Sale, Altrincham
DMU Chester – Shrewsbury via Wrexham
33016 2039 Shrewsbury – Abergavenny
Both 31446 and 33016 were required haulage.

 

[NorthWestRover]

Sunday 18th April 1982

Another of my partial days. Nothing on Motherlist or RailGen for the 40 working but a Google search revealed a Flickr pic of it on the 15.10 out of Lime St. Not sure if I did it on the way in or on a later move.

40185 WBQ to Lime St (via Earlestown West Curve)
87006 Lime St to Crewe

 

[D6130]

TUESDAY 18th APRIL 1978:

You've guessed it....another after-work Crompton bash from Waterloo to Woking!:

7821/7418/7816 Petersfield-Waterloo (06 23 from Portsmouth Harbour)
5674/5677/5757/5675 08 14 Waterloo-Wimbledon (to Guildford via Cobham)
5919/5929/5916/5945 Wimbledon-Waterloo (18 05 from Chessington South)
33 011 19 00 Waterloo-Woking (to Exeter SD. Consist: W5363/3087/1772/14069/14080/5457/5492/5489 Load 8 AB/EH)
7811/7814 Woking-Petersfield (19 20 Waterloo-Portsmouth Harbour)


SATURDAY 18th APRIL 1981:

While spending the Easter long weekend with my grandmother on Teesside, I decided to go for a day out on the North York Moors Railway:
E50256/56091 Thornaby-Middlesbrough (08 50 Darlington-Saltburn)
E50180/59104/59220/50149/51205/50570 10 40 Middlesbrough-Grosmont (to Whitby)
Steam 4767 13 00 Grosmont-Pickering (Consist: E4597/SC3798/E13102/E9235/E15709 Load 5 VB/SH)
Steam 4767 14 25 Pickering-Grosmont (Same consist in reverse order)
E50570/51205/50149/59220/59104/50180 Grosmont-Whitby (14 47 from Middlesbrough)
E50244/59197/59064/50295 18 31 Whitby-Middlesbrough
E50293/56065 Middlesbrough-Thornaby (19 35 Saltburn-Darlington)

I had visited the North of England Open-Air Museum at Beamish on the previous day, but that was a DMU trip both ways to/from Newcastle....out via Darlington and back via the coast.

 

[xotGD]

56091 Thornaby-Middlesbrough

56065 Middlesbrough-Thornaby

Now that would be something!

Nothing from me today, but tomorrow I have a Diesel Gala that was rather a disappointment...

 

[CW2]

Wednesday 19/04/78
31410 1740 Bradford Exchange – Leeds
46044 1906 Leeds – York

Thursday 19/04/79
31131 0927 Reading – Paddington
50016 1930 Paddington – Reading

Saturday 19/04/80
13th consecutive overnight …
86236 0009 Crewe – Stafford
81020 0047 Stafford – Carstairs
47141 Carstairs – Edinburgh
Time for some breakfast and a much-needed shower in the Superloo, then:
40103 1100 Edinburgh – Aberdeen
An excellent run, waiting time at all stations en route.
27109 1359 Aberdeen – Insch
27005 1438 Insch – Aberdeen
47469 1530 Aberdeen – Stonehaven
40161 1610 Stonehaven – Aberdeen
40161 1749 Aberdeen – Stonehaven
40049 1816 Stonehaven – Aberdeen
40065 1915 Aberdeen – Edinburgh
47271 2345 Edinburgh – Carstairs
A fine day for 40s on the Aberdeen road… and on to overnight 14 …

Monday 19/04/93
There was an RfD 90 on hire on the ECML, and it was lined up to do the 1703 Kings Cross – Edinburgh, which was first stop Grantham.
90023 1703 Kings Cross – Grantham
91012 1816 Grantham – Kings Cross

Monday 19/04/99
Another work trip to Doncaster. I chose my ECML train carefully:
43011 + 43004 0604 Reading – Paddington
90029 0705 Kings Cross – Doncaster
43090 + 43123 1331 Doncaster – Birmingham New Street via Swinton Jn., Rotherham Masborough, Sheffield
47805 1606 Birmingham New Street – Reading via Coventry

 

[CD]

Tuesday 19/04/1983
Prior to night shift.
50006 Sherborne-Salisbury 1O14 1230 Exeter-Waterloo.
33025 Salisbury-Fareham 1O79 1215 Cardiff-Portsmouth Hbr.
33015 Fareham-Salisbury 1V30 1510 Portsmouth Hbr-Bristol.
33009 Salisbury-Portsmouth Hbr 1O83 1514 Bristol-Portsmouth Hbr.
33025 Portsmouth Hbr-Warminster 1V35 1810 Portsmouth Hbr-Bristol.
33101 Warminster-Salisbury 1O93 1800 Cardiff-Portsmouth Hbr.
50006 Salisbury-Sherborne 1V19 1910 Waterloo-Exeter.

Thursday 19/04/1984
On night shift again.
50029 Yeovil Jn-Salisbury 1O18 1415 Exeter-Waterloo.
33064 Salisbury-Portsmouth Hbr 1O83 1550 Westbury-Portsmouth Hbr. (can`t remember why the train started at Westbury that day).
33037 Portsmouth Hbr-Salisbury 1V35 1810 Portsmouth Hbr-Bristol.
50046 Salisbury-Andover 1O22 1733 Exeter-Waterloo.
33019 Andover-Sherborne 1Z14 1857 Waterloo-Exeter relief.

Friday 19/04/1985
50042 Yeovil Jn-Salisbury 1O18 1417 Exeter-Waterloo.
33012 Salisbury-Basingstoke 2L40 1635 Salisbury-Basingstoke.
47451 Basingstoke-Southampton 1O25 0950 Glasgow Central-Poole.
33046 Southampton-Salisbury 1V35 1810 Portsmouth Hbr-Bristol.
33107 Salisbury-Yeovil Jn 1V18 1810 Waterloo-Yeovil Jn.

Saturday 19/04/1986
33031+33115 Southampton-Bristol 1V02 0155 Southampton-Bristol.
33028 Bristol-Portsmouth Hbr 1O61 0658 Bristol-Portsmouth Hbr.
33057 Portsmouth Hbr-Bristol 1V24 1010 Portsmouth Hbr-Bristol.
33044 Bristol-Southampton 1O79 1205 Cardiff-Portsmouth Hbr.
33065 Southampton-Bristol 1V29 1410 Portsmouth Hbr-Cardiff.
33048 Bristol-Salisbury 1O87 1615 Cardiff-Portsmouth Hbr.
33018 Salisbury-Bath 1V35 1810 Portsmouth Hbr-Bristol.
33063 Bath-Westbury 2O95 2020 Bristol-Portsmouth Hbr
B586 Westbury-Yeovil PM 2110 Westbury-Weymouth.

 

[xotGD]

19th April 1997

A Diesel Gala at the GCR. This event was meant to focus on Peaks - they even had a specially brewed beer in the buffet car. However, one of the Wagons failed to turn up, and the other one had fagged. So haulage came from:

D1705
D8098
45231 (I suppose the number starts with '45', so almost a Peak.)
DMU

I've known better diesel days.

 

[NorthWestRover]

Saturday 19th April 1986

Busy doing nothing around the West Midlands. Cans, Duffs and a few 87s. Required the generator.

87026 Wolves to Birmingham Int, 1A17 06.25 Chester to Euston
47606 Birmingham Int to Birmingham NS, 1E41 06.50 Paddington to Leeds/Hull
86245 Birmingham NS to Coventry, 06.22 Holyhead to Euston
47515 Coventry to Birmingham NS, 06.25 Poole to Man Picc
86259 Birmingham NS to Wolves, 09.40 Euston to Shrewsbury
86211 Wolves to Birmingham Int, 1A41 11.37 Shrewsbury to Euston
87027 Birmingham Int to Birmingham NS, 11.40 Euston to Shrewsbury
86223 Birmingham NS to Sandwell & Dudley, 14.13 Birmingham to Liverpool
87027 Sandwell & Dudley to Coventry, 13.37 Shrewsbury to Euston
47403 Coventry to Birmingham NS, 11.40 Poole to Manchester
47622 Birmingham NS to Coventry, 13.52 Liverpool to Portsmouth
87017 Coventry to Wolves, 15.10 Euston to Holyhead

 

[D6130]

SUNDAY 19th APRIL 1981:

While staying with my grandmother on Teesside, I decided to take a trip to Tyneside for a spin on the then (nearly) new Metro system:

E50251/56357 Thornaby-Newcastle (09 40 from Middlesbrough)
4034/4049 Haymarket-Tynemouth via Gosforth
4077/4062 Tynemouth-Haymarket via Gosforth
47 405 Newcastle-Darlington (16 18 to Liverpool Lime Street. Consist: E81250/13469/5378/5388/6510/5283/5395/5399 Load 8 AB/EH)
E50165/56219 17 15 Darlington-Eaglescliffe (to Saltburn)

 

[CW2]

Friday 20/04/79
50032 1101 Reading – Westbury
50008 1425 Westbury – Paddington
At Westbury this was announced as running 15 minutes late. It arrived only 8 minutes late, and reached Paddington 2 minutes early.
50017 1653 Paddington – Castle Cary
50039 1903 Castle Cary – Reading

Sunday 20/04/80
My 14th consecutive overnight, and it is time to head south to go back to Uni in London.
86251 0041 Carstairs – Crewe
47406 0428 Crewe – Manchester Piccadilly
This was 165' late due to a power failure at Euston and a derailment near Watford.
47439 1111 Manchester Piccadilly – Birmingham New Street via Crewe, Cannock
47342 1418 Birmingham New Street – Nuneaton
87021 15xx Nuneaton – Euston
So ended my 2-week marathon rail journey around the UK. I racked up a grand total of 8775 miles, of which 3205 miles was behind 15 different class 40s, and 1245 miles behind Deltics. I think this was the most intensive bashing period I ever made in the UK (although some of my Continental bashes were just as intense).
You might have thought this would "get it out of my system", but seemingly not, as I dropped out of my Uni course that summer and started working on the railways. That introduced me to "priv" travel, so I didn't need to rely on those dubious Darlington 3D tickets ever again! Forty two years later, I'm still busy "getting it out of my system !

 

[Harvester]

Thursday 20th April 1978

First day of an East Midlands Rover.

45116 08:19 Beeston-Leicester (Nottingham-St Pancras)
31239 09:07 Leicester-Peterborough (Birmingham-Norwich)
55015 12:05 Peterborough-Doncaster (Kings Cross-Edinburgh)
DMU Doncaster-Sheffield
47460 16:25 Sheffield-Nottingham (Manchester Piccadilly-Harwich)
DMU Nottingham-Beeston

 

[xotGD]

47406 0428 Crewe – Manchester Piccadilly

Clearly the highlight of the entire two weeks!

That was some marathon you did there. I've done a week of overnights several times on Freedoms of Scotland, but 2 weeks is really going some.

We were young and daft. Now, not so young, but probably just as daft!

 

[D6130]

MONDAY 20th APRIL 1981:

After spending the Easter long weekend at my grandmother's on Teesside, it was time to head back home to Glasgow....but not before another quick lunchtime visit to the NYMR and a DMU fill-in move to Bishop Auckland:

E50196/59092/50265/50576/59572/50164 Thornaby-Grosmont (09 04 Darlington-Whitby)
80135 11 00 Grosmont-Goathland (to Pickering. Consist: E4597/SC3798/E13102/E9235/E15709 Load 5 VB/SH)
E56097/51118/50341/56099 Goathland-Levisham (12 00 Grosmont-Pickering)
80135 Levisham-Grosmont (12 25 from Pickering. Consist as above in reverse order)
E50150/51247 Grosmont-Middlesbrough (14 22 from Whitby)
E50157/56370 Middlesbrough-Darlington (15 30 from Saltburn)
E56403/50154 16 30 Darlington-Bishop Auckland
E50154/56403 17 09 Bishop Auckland-Darlington
43 119+43 051 Darlington-Edinburgh (15 00 Kings Cross-Aberdeen. Consist: E44046/41233/32/31/40023/40506/41068/41067 Load 8 AB/EH)
47 701 20 00 Edinburgh-Glasgow QS HL via Falkirk High (Consist: SC9710/11009/12051/12023/12018/12026 Load 6 AB/EH)
303 009/038 Glasgow QS LL-Hyndland (20 22 Airdrie-Helensburgh Central)

My notes tell me that we passed 37 036 at Berwick at about 19 10 hauling 1F52. Has anyone any idea what that may have been?

 

[CW2]

MONDAY 20th APRIL 1981:

My notes tell me that we passed 37 036 at Berwick at about 19 10 hauling 1F52. Has anyone any idea what that may have been?

I recall that 1Fxx headcodes on the ECML were used for inter-regional additionals, so I guess it would have been a relief train, e.g. 18xx Edinburgh - Kings Cross (or maybe terminating somewhere short).

 

[D6130]

I recall that 1Fxx headcodes on the ECML were used for inter-regional additionals, so I guess it would have been a relief train, e.g. 18xx Edinburgh - Kings Cross (or maybe terminating somewhere short).

Thanks....that would make sense. Therefore I suppose that the 11 55 Edinburgh-Kings Cross relief, on which I travelled as far as Darlington behind 55 010 a few days earlier, would also have been a 1Fxx.

 

[xotGD]

Thanks....that would make sense. Therefore I suppose that the 11 55 Edinburgh-Kings Cross relief, on which I travelled as far as Darlington behind 55 010 a few days earlier, would also have been a 1Fxx.

The Class 37 gen site doesn't mention this service, but does include this entry for 37036 on this day:

1D62 0355 Doncaster - Hull With 40077

That sounds fairly dreadful!

 

[xotGD]

20th April 1985

47525 Newcastle - Durham 1M73
47186 Durham - Newcastle 1E51

Something without an ETH box - woohoo!

20th April 1991

86227 New St - Wolves

Another of those days where I now have no idea why I went to Wolverhampton.

 

[Sultan1056]

Thanks....that would make sense. Therefore I suppose that the 11 55 Edinburgh-Kings Cross relief, on which I travelled as far as Darlington behind 55 010 a few days earlier, would also have been a 1Fxx.

The head code for the 1155 Edinburgh-Kings Cross was 1E52 on the day you travelled. (I have referred to Napier Chronicles).
Additional or relief trains between Edinburgh and Kings Cross normally used 1Exx and 1Sxx headcodes. Excursions or very late notice additionals would typically use 1Fxx codes. Hope this is of some help.

 

[CW2]

The head code for the 1155 Edinburgh-Kings Cross was 1E52 on the day you travelled. (I have referred to Napier Chronicles).
Additional or relief trains between Edinburgh and Kings Cross normally used 1Exx and 1Sxx headcodes. Excursions or very late notice additionals would typically use 1Fxx codes. Hope this is of some help.

Yes but no but ...
Back in the 80s, for reasons unknown to me, even the ECML reliefs appearing in the weekly STN would have 1Fxx numbers. Perhaps this was to denote to the signallers that they were relief services.
Only those services appearing in the WTT would have 1Sxx or 1Exx numbers.
Anything else (such as a VSTP Control Relief) would be 1Zxx.

 

[CW2]

Another of those days where I now have no idea why I went to Wolverhampton.

With all due respect to those Black Country residents, I think that statement applies to most people on most days!

 

[NorthWestRover]

Shocking statement. Not only do you diss Goyles, you now diss my alma mater.

 

[CW2]

 

[CW2]

A comparatively quiet day from me:
Saturday 21/04/79
50046 2028 Reading – Paddington
This was 6 minutes early into Paddington. It was whipped up to over 100mph approaching Southall, then coasted all the way in from there.
47425 2230 Kings Cross – York via Lincoln, Hare Park

Saturday 21/04/84
A visit to my parents, taking in a diversion or two on the way:
43109 + 43056 1944 York – Kings Cross via Hambleton
50032 2325 Paddington – Plymouth via Westbury, Yeovil Pen Mill, Yeovil Junction, Exeter St Davids

 

[NorthWestRover]

It's getting close to a year that I've been contributing to this thread in terms of haulage on this day in history. Around this time last year, I was just about to get some of my books back and on 26th April, I dropped back a few days and posted the following from

Saturday 21st April 1979

Nothing recorded for 26th April in any of the moves books I've got, so I'll rewind a few days to 21st April 1979 when I appeared to go on The Woldsman LCGB Tour with the following... I was still only into spotting then, but from my class listings (and confirmation of route from the Six Bells Junction website) , I know I did this railtour. I probably joined it in Manchester. As a North West spotter, passing Tinsley and Immingham (possibly Toton?) would have got me a lot of "cops". Bit more interesting haulage than the Cans...

Locos	Route
25319 + 25297	Liverpool Lime Street - Earlestown - Manchester Victoria - Miles Platting - Ashton Moss - Guide Bridge
76014 + 76030	Guide Bridge - Woodhead - Penistone - Sheffield Victoria - Woodburn Jn - Attercliffe Jn - Shepcote Lane - Tinsley Yard
31250 + 31270	Tinsley Yard - Treeton North Jn - Masborough South Jn - Rotherham Masborough - Aldwarke Jn - Mexborough - Hexthorpe Jn - Bentley Jn - Scunthorpe - Barnetby - Brocklesby - Immingham loop - Marsh Jn - Grimsby Town - Cleethorpes
20052 + 20107	Cleethorpes - Grimsby Town - Barnetby - Wrawby Jn - Market Rasen - Lincoln - Newark - Nottingham
20194 + 20189	Nottingham - Trowell Jn - Chesterfield - Chinley - Guide Bridge
25297 + 25319	Guide Bridge - Manchester Victoria - Earlestown - Liverpool Lime Street

 

[D6130]

It's getting close to a year that I've been contributing to this thread in terms of haulage on this day in history. Around this time last year, I was just about to get some of my books back and on 26th April, I dropped back a few days and posted the following from

It's just over a year since I first contributed to this thread, so I suppose there's a good chance that I may start to become repetitive. Having said that, I've discovered some more notebooks since then....so hopefully there are still a few interesting moves to uncover.

FRIDAY 21st APRIL 1978:

You've guessed it....another after-work Crompton bash:

7711/7710/7737 Petersfield-Waterloo (06 23 from Portsmouth harbour)
5782/5793/5756 08 04 Waterloo-Wimbledon (to Shepperton)
4641/4618 Wimbledon-Waterloo (17 56 from Shepperton)
33 002 19 00 Waterloo-Woking (to Exeter St Davids. Consist: W5361/5446/5464/14073/14063/5371/1755/5452 Load 8 AB/EH)
7341/5127 Woking-Guildford (18 52 from Waterloo)
7824/7714 Guildford-Petersfield (19 20 Waterloo-Portsmouth Harbour)


.....and here's one that I missed earlier:

TUESDAY 19th APRIL 1983:

87 010 12 10 Glasgow Central-Euston (Consist: M92156/11056/11034/3432/10027/12049/12129/12060/12057/12132 Load 10 AB/EH)

 

[xotGD]

21st April 1990

ECML shut, so taking the long way round from Newcastle to Edinburgh on the way to the football. I wasn't going to take a Tram throughout...

86418 Carlisle - Carstairs
47467 Carstairs - Waverley

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