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Page last Updated : 26-09-04
Below, a selection of gen, moves and anecdotes from the day in
question...
Mark Nicoll writes...
"Details about the actual trains are a bit
mixed but the memories of 47524 expiring spectacularly at
Ashchurch are still clear - a handful
of bashers equipped with the fire extinguishers from the sleepers
including yours truly at track level
attacking the blaze - it was in works for almost 12 months I seem
to recall.
S19 was always a hellfire train and
never failed to interest
86420 GLASGOW - CREWE 1V62
(7th DEC)
33040 CREWE - NEWPORT
(I think this was the 0805 Crewe Cardiff)
47442 NEWPORT - CARDIFF
(1110 ex Newport to Cardiff
33025 CARDIFF - BRISTOL TM
(LATER WORKED 1610 BTM - WEY)
33008 BTM -
BATH
(1510 BTM - PORTSMOUTH)
33044 BATH - BRISTOL TM
(1531 BATH - BTM ..EX PORTSMOUTH)
33064 BTM - WESTBURY
(1620 BTM -WEY)
33211 WESTBURY - BTM
(1758 ex WESTBURY TO BRISTOL)
43XXX BTM - BATH
33016 BATH -
BTM
(1610 PORTSMOUTH - BRISTOL)
47524 BTM - ASHCHURCH
(1S19 via SEVERN TUNNEL) THEN CAUGHT FIRE
37270/163 ASHCHURCH - NEW ST
(1S19)
81017 NEW ST - WOLVES
(1S19)
47451 WOLVES - PRESTON
(1S19)
81017 PRESTON - CARLISLE
(1S19)
47497 CARLISLE - GLASGOW C
(1S19)"
Alan Baylis says...
"Today's moves were restricted by my promise
to give a friend from Grantham (guess who!) a ride around
Birmingham in my Triumph TR7
before it was part exchanged for a new car in the following week.
47562
Birmingham NS - Coventry 0645 York - Portsmouth
1O27
85010
Coventry - Birmingham NS 0633 Poole - Manchester
1M88
81017
Birmingham NS - Wolverhampton 1047 Birmingham -
Liverpool 1F10
86241
Wolverhampton - Birmingham NS 1127 Wolverhampton
- Euston 1A36
Great start to the day picking up a
Scottish 47 as a 'loco for the year' and a couple of Roarers before
making the promised car move.
I was targeting 1,000 'locos for the year' and on my return after a lunch
break found another 47 and two 31s
that I needed.
86239
Birmingham NS - Birmingham Int. 1518 Birmingham
NS - Euston 1A54
47418
Birmingham Int. - Birmingham NS 1140 Poole - Manchester
1M14
31142
Birmingham NS - Leicester 1610 Birmingham - Norwich
1E80
31450
Leicester - Birmingham NS 1720 Peterborough - Birmingham
NS 2M05
87006
Birmingham NS - Wolverhampton 1810 Euston - Manchester
1H27
86254
Wolverhampton - Birmingham NS 1902 Manchester -
Paddington 1V19
Not quite a perfect end to the day as
V19 should have been a Roarer!
(FWIW I got my 1,000 loco for the year
on the 28th December with 26042 on the 40s
Euston - Glasgow railtour and finished
with a total of 1,005 for the year)."
NOTE: These days there are less
than 1000 locos passed for use on Network Rail and most of those are
very unlikely to have worked a single
passenger train during the last twelve months (and probably won't work
one during the next twelve months either)! |