With a special mention to our esteemed member
tramdan who somehow managed to clear his 185s today, mainly through sheer luck. Somehow. And I can't even win a bleeding unit with trying.
We'll continue. It's early. Like, early early, and of course I'm not wanting to awake, however I somehow managed to drag myself out of bed and up to the freezing cold tram stop for the 0711 tram, this today was formed of, errrrrrrrrrr....
Oh yeah, 107, again, which took us the four miles through to the station (8, for Mr P, as he shall now be known through this trip report). This was early, it was still before 0800, however a quick fester later and 1B69 turned up, on time, perfectly. This was....
Okay, my memory isn't great and Railmiles isn't loading, but it was 185117, which was taken through to Stockport, with yet another half hour fester, and it was now the time of what I've just spent £20.70 to do - Duds 142014+150201 on the parliamentary service up to Stalybridge. Of course, our esteemed Tech boarded and alighted en-route, and myself was thinking "I'm sure he looks familiar" - of course only finding out after he'd alighted at Denton - oh well.
We made it through to Stalybridge, winning track over, and now it was to fill the day with something worth it, so
185131 was taken forwards to Leeds. The guard somehow seemed to confuse my ranger with a season ticket, which of course confused me (it was only 1000, it's early!), and after full signal through Standedge tunnel, even including dropping the above post into here, we soon arrived at Leeds.
We switched onto the Liverpool via Man Vic, which somehow won Mr P his second 185 of the day, only needing five an hour previously, this being mega low mileage 185108. Just another trip to go on here before it joins the 100 mile club! 185101 returned us to Leeds from Victoria, without much incident - the closest would be crawling through the West Yorkshire scenery as the stopper and the Hull were running late ahead of us. We'd crawled to a halt just before Morley tunnel, and people seemed to take this as a cue to get ready to alight for Leeds, slightly bewildered looks on their faces as we picked up speed again towards Leeds.
Dinner sourced from KFC, and wanting a "quiet" eating time, we jumped onto winner
91119 through to Wakefield, this journey taking me under the halfway mark with 91s. After a quick panic that I'd lost my iPod with a load of videos on it on said 91, we returned to Leeds on winner
91109.
The fluke for Mr P continued here, with his 49th required 185 showing up on our Middlesbrough service, which we took through to Manchester without issue, and then onto stalker 185139 back across the Pennines to Leeds. Mr P had gen on what were now his final two 185s, so we hatched a plan to grab these for his benefit, which involved a Huddersfield leap - with high mileage 185111 taking us across, and similarly high mileage 185148 returning us to Leeds, for a quick fester.
We'd noticed 321901 had returned from Ilford (not 321091 like I keep wanting to thype!), so this killed a bit of time, before Mr P's required 185144 led 185135 through to Huddersfield. Upon departure, these sounded absolutely effing amazing, so
here's a clicky that Mr P made earlier - you may want to turn your volume up, although the video does not do the sound any sort of justice!! I sourced some cookies here at Huddersfield from the Sainsburys, where we returned to the station for the final chase of the day - 185109 through to Manchester Victoria.
I won't go into all the details on this journey, but I quite enjoyed it for numerous reasons, even being sat on the floor in the vestibule with it being the evening peak on the TPE route!! At Victoria, 185140 was taken back through to Huddersfield. Somehow, we'd managed to see this unit about five times already in the day, I'm not sure how, but 140 was sounding absolutely amazing as we made our way over to Huddersfield, building some real speed after about Standedge. Huddersfield reached, and 185116 was next up, over to Piccadilly.
At Piccadilly, it was over to platform 4 for 1B92. There was a platform alteration to the ex-York, which arrived in not long after, so using some initiative and knowing that 185127 was not the Sheffield, me and Mr P moved down the platform, Mr P slightly skeptical, as 127 filled up nicely. Five minutes later, and 127 was emptying off quite nicely as what should turn up behind, but my best friend, 185134. Some expletives occurred here, as I worked out this would take me to 699mi 31ch on this one unit - the highest mileage of any of my dud stock!
This took us through to Sheffield, arriving just a few minutes late, however I realised on the way over the Valley that, unless there is a set swap, I'll be making the same journey on 134 again tomorrow, just an hour later. That will be fun!
105 was the tram back home for me, and to Halfway for Mr P.
All my 2015 targets are now complete. Just took 14 months longer than it should've!
Now to aim for The Magical Thou on them all... 
), which meant that after another short run tram 119 had the honours of starting the day with the four miles into the city. 
Unlike some I actually like Voyagers as you well know.
