Oh deary me Tech...shouldn't have mentioned it on Twitter
I'll make sure I'm thinking of you whilst going around the place
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06/09/2016
An early start but well worth it...kinda!
Starting with an 0430 alarm, shower, drink, etc, and off out at 0525. This was early - first tram early! Somehow it'd already managed to run late, but at 0540
115 showed up to take me to Halfway, the first move of the day.
At Halfway, it was time to be picked up and off to Retford! At Retford, it was for the 0740 service to London, my first major Hull Trains trip, onboard winner
180109, arriving into London bang on time at 0913, although sadly the travelcard purchased on the train would prove to be fruitless in every single barrier that was encountered!
As 0930 arrived, it was down to the tube station and onto winning pair
21515/21516 across to Liverpool Street, where arriving slightly earlier than planned it was up to winners
379014/379010 to take us forwards to Tottenham Hale.
A quick fester complete and then it was onto winner
317652 across to Stratford, to pick up a slightly late running winner
90013 down to Liverpool Street - quite a nice run down too in the MK3 coaching stock!
Back underground, and it was next the job of winners
21095/21096 forwards to Aldgate on the Metropolitan line, before winners
21376/21375 forwards to Tower Hill on the circle line. Out of the underground, and into Fenchurch Street left us with winner
357022 forwards to Limehouse, where triple winners
27/72/12 were forwards to Shadwell on the DLR. We'd accidentally got on a Tower Gateway DLR needing Bank, so it was to dud
54 with winners
29/05 across to Bank, before getting lost trying to find Cannon Street. Fortunately, we'd done it just in time to make winner
376023 over to Grove Park, where we picked up a very vocal winner
466026 to Bromley North and back.
Sadly, we'd just missed the Charing Cross service so it was back onto now dud
376023 forwards to Hither Green, where boredom led to double winners
465152/465163 back to Grove Park, for winners
456046/456013 back across to London Bridge. The station concourse actually looks pretty cool now, but we couldn't bask in it for long - double winners
375915/375925 took us the short hop over to Waterloo East, where the South West Trains hours or two began! Aiming for as many different types of unit as possible, it was first onto double winners
455742/455711 across to Vauxhall, where winner
458518 then took us forwards to Clapham Junction, where double winners
450002/450078 then led us back to Waterloo. Next it was winners
159001/159022 back across to Clapham (in which I noticed SWT don't acknowledge the existance of Exeter Central, yet they do to ExeterCentral!). From here, winner
450001 was the chariot back to Waterloo, for treble winners
455871/456004/456012 back to Clapham, before returning to Waterloo on winners
455710/455850, where
444001 was led back to Clapham
Finally off SWT, which was starting to feel slightly boring by this point, it was down to winners
377104/377435/377404 across to Victoria, which were surprisingly not cancelled! Back underground at Victoria, and it was winners
21409/21410 across to Blackfriars, where another pair of winners,
377517/377516 were taken a hop up the Thameslink core to, well, City Thameslink, for winners
319452/319437 up to Farringdon.
Reliably informed, here we waited for the 1651 to Brighton, which rocked up on time as my first 700,
700109, and wow, what impressive units these are! Other than the seats, obviously.
The tedious run through to East Croydon over, and now it was to a pair of very broken winners,
171804/171805 through to London Bridge, where it was down to winners
442405/442424 to deliver us safely back at East Croydon.
Sadly, the day was almost over by this point, but there was still about two hours left of bashing to go, so it was up to winners
387103/387129 back through onto the Thameslink core, for winning S Stock
21557/21558 through to Moorgate, where winners
313057/313045 were taken through to Moorgate, for a very vocal pair of winners
365532/365527 back to Kings Cross. With an hour and a half to go before the VTEC, a quick Finsbury Park leap was called for before my legs decided they'd had enough of running around London (I ended up pulling a muscle out of it which is still giving me enough grief now!).
The Finsbury Park leap was up to winners
321419/321406 there and winner
365508 back.
Back at Kings Cross, disaster struck as my eyes glimpsed onto the disruption boards making our way back through the concourse - the OHLE was down at Retford. B$%&*£^s!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Fortunately our train was still running, but not calling at the ultimate destination of the journey, which was a pain to say the least. Even more a pain was that after winning every single unit all day today, it was down to double duds
43238/43208 providing the power and shove back north, to Newark, where a s^£*$y replacement coach took us further north to Retford, arriving 28 minutes delayed - aargh!
Not to worry though, it wasn't 0115 that I arrived home at all
