Peter Mugridge
Veteran Member
07/10/21
Expensive, but too good to resist and definitely worth it... provided everything stuck to diagram! Two return trips to Peterborough with about an hour's fester between the first and second and then the second and third moves and then a setting back hop at Stevenage on the second up run would yield me no less than five of my remaining IETs...
Managed to just miss the London Bridge train at Epsom, but no worries... a change at Sutton would do just as well, so this time I started on 377 621 + 377 624 to Sutton and then 700 051 to St Pancras. The short walk to King's Cross left me with plenty of time to spare before my first move, required 801 106 + dud 801 112.
Upon arrival at Peterborough, the first thing I noticed was my second move was showing about 25 late on the screens. Not good, but I had plenty of margin for the third move. During this fester I got quite a bit of photography done; the locomotive side of things involved 66 738, 66 004, 66 077 and 66 047 although I didn't do a picture of that one. Other pictures were of various IETs, including brand new 803 003, and renumbered 170 623.
Eventually my second move, required 801 222, turned up about 45 late and with my nearly an hour's margin now eroded to nail bitingly tight!
We made it. Just. Back at King's Cross I caught the planned required 801 228 back out to Peterborough with about two minutes to spare; this was from a platform 3 to platform 6 dash... had it been platform 0 to platform 8 it might have been a miss... and that would have messed up the remaining part of the plan as this time the margin at Peterborough would only be about 15 minutes.
This time things ran as planned and I only had a short fester, in which I saw 66 152 and 66 529, before required 801 226 arrived to convey me to Stevenage. A five minute wait there produced the expected required 801 108 to take me forwards to London.
There was a little bit of time to spare, so I took 21061 + 21062 across to Liverpool Street and made my way to Stratford as quickly as I could, which meant the well dud pairing of 321 311 + 321 343. Typically, a required 720 passed in the opposite direction, which I pursued back to Liverpool street on 345 014 and then scored the 720 back out; that was 720 560 + 720 553, the former being the required one. Nothing else required turned up in the time I had available but getting just one was still a bonus as the IETs were the only real plan for the day, so I just boarded dud 720 547 back in and caught 21023 + 21024 to Farringdon and proceeded to London Bridge with 700 153. My onward service to Epsom was 377 151 + 377 304 + 377 303.
Expensive, but too good to resist and definitely worth it... provided everything stuck to diagram! Two return trips to Peterborough with about an hour's fester between the first and second and then the second and third moves and then a setting back hop at Stevenage on the second up run would yield me no less than five of my remaining IETs...
Managed to just miss the London Bridge train at Epsom, but no worries... a change at Sutton would do just as well, so this time I started on 377 621 + 377 624 to Sutton and then 700 051 to St Pancras. The short walk to King's Cross left me with plenty of time to spare before my first move, required 801 106 + dud 801 112.
Upon arrival at Peterborough, the first thing I noticed was my second move was showing about 25 late on the screens. Not good, but I had plenty of margin for the third move. During this fester I got quite a bit of photography done; the locomotive side of things involved 66 738, 66 004, 66 077 and 66 047 although I didn't do a picture of that one. Other pictures were of various IETs, including brand new 803 003, and renumbered 170 623.
Eventually my second move, required 801 222, turned up about 45 late and with my nearly an hour's margin now eroded to nail bitingly tight!
We made it. Just. Back at King's Cross I caught the planned required 801 228 back out to Peterborough with about two minutes to spare; this was from a platform 3 to platform 6 dash... had it been platform 0 to platform 8 it might have been a miss... and that would have messed up the remaining part of the plan as this time the margin at Peterborough would only be about 15 minutes.
This time things ran as planned and I only had a short fester, in which I saw 66 152 and 66 529, before required 801 226 arrived to convey me to Stevenage. A five minute wait there produced the expected required 801 108 to take me forwards to London.
There was a little bit of time to spare, so I took 21061 + 21062 across to Liverpool Street and made my way to Stratford as quickly as I could, which meant the well dud pairing of 321 311 + 321 343. Typically, a required 720 passed in the opposite direction, which I pursued back to Liverpool street on 345 014 and then scored the 720 back out; that was 720 560 + 720 553, the former being the required one. Nothing else required turned up in the time I had available but getting just one was still a bonus as the IETs were the only real plan for the day, so I just boarded dud 720 547 back in and caught 21023 + 21024 to Farringdon and proceeded to London Bridge with 700 153. My onward service to Epsom was 377 151 + 377 304 + 377 303.
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