Page last Updated :  10--02-08       Peter Scott remembers... EMU CREWE to MANCHESTER 31 40082 MANCHESTER to MILEPOST 93 FROM KX 111 1E34 - 0815 Manchester Piccadilly to Yarmouth 31131 MP93 FROM KX to PETERBOROUGH 16.5 1E34 - 0815 Manchester Piccadilly to Yarmouth HST PETERBOROUGH to YORK 112 40035 YORK to KINGS CROSS 188 1E84 - 1315 Edinburgh to Kings Cross (Relief) 85008 EUSTON to CREWE 158 1H24 - 2025 London Euston to Manchester Piccadilly Prior to 1983 the 0815 Manchester - Yarmouth was booked a 40 only as far as Sheffield where the train was re-engined with more eastern motive power. During 1983 it was booked a 40 throughout, and so my first real chance of having a 40 into East Anglia. The plan today was to do 'The Yarmouth' all the way. It was a good one-engine mileage move (nearly 450 miles round trip) but it was a long hard day to do it! The move started with a 304 unit on the 0630 Crewe to Manchester stopper. Quite a horrible journey, but a decent plus onto the 0815 Yarmouth. Sometimes, when doing this move, if the 0804 Manchester-Skegness was a 40 we'd do that to Sheffield. I see from 'Timewarp' it was 40195 today; but due to the long journey to Norwich the preference was to get a compo at the front at Manchester and stay there. On this day 40082 got as far as milepost 93 from Kings Cross (between Grantham and Peterborough I assume). Being rescued by a 31 wasn't part of the plan and we duly bailed at Peterborough. I suppose we had a back-up move of getting somewhere for 40195 on the return Skegness-Manchester, but there was more juicy gen afoot: 40035 on an Edinburgh-Kings Cross relief. We - and about 30 others I seem to remember - quickly realised we could get to York for it. Being priv helped a lot here, as I was on a 'box' (only recently having replaced the old free pass) so it wasn't a problem for me; but what it cost the others I dread to think... if they paid of course! We all boarded a tram and headed for York. I don't remember too much about 40035's run into Kings Cross - other than I felt it was something special having a 40 into 'The Cross'. I had only one previous experience - back in April of this same year, when 40013 had worked a similar relief. By 1981 I was doing nothing but 40s, and living in Crewe it was all too easy to stay on home ground - what point would there be just heading over to the east coast, just on the off chance of something? So as with Norwich, I knew there would be few chances to have this kind of opportunity. So I do remember it with fondness. A 'roarer' home was an added bonus to a day that could have gone seriously wrong, but ended up providing my second, and last, 40 into London."       'Captain Grey' recalls... "Cart St Ives-St Erth 50041 Bulwark St Erth-Penzance 1Vxx 0741SO Derby-Penzance 5.75 50034 Furious Penzance-St Erth 1A07 2045SO Penzance-Paddington 5.75 Cart St Erth-St Ives Not really so much bashing as drinking. Staying in St Ives in a B&B for a week, we'd vary the beer and clubbing with daytime leaps... this one being to more pubs and beer in Penzance and back to St Erth for more of the same in the evening. Insect Mileage? Never!"       'Evening Star '  logged the following... "Birmingham New Street 47346 86003 47462 86204 45026 45137 86238p [0848 > Euston] 86215 Curzen Street 08893 Coventry 86210 20165 20064 50034 Rugby 08702 81008 25251 25253 Bletchley 25078 Watford Jct 86249 Stonebridge Park 85035 31321 25229 25326 86325 Willesdon 08511 08825 Willesdon Jct 08670 81020 08926 Euston 86214 86207 86218 08909 87006 85011 08908 85037 86228 87026 85016 Liverpool Street 37219 307130p [1207 > Stratford] 47182 47572 Stratford 47520 31412 47155 08958 08724 31253 E12LU 47583 S70000B 37053 50050c 56023 33027 47150 08698 08520 08393 47458 08422 08527 37055 47378  47116 47580 43196 58002 47577 86224 08531 31402 08417 37021 31116  31173 31138 47117 31198 31199 31223 37050 37004 37069 08627 37001  08810 25177 47228 08550 31126 31179 31112 47526 31295 31148 46029  46056 47579 31175 47017 47006 08494 08956 31105 47158 47122 47431  37118 40092 46044 46010 47487 31175 308158p [1546 > Liverpool Street] Liverpool Street 47582 47569 08883 31213 47112 Victoria 7724p [1700 > Horsham (see later note)] Clapham Jct 73112 09006 Redhill 33045 73119 Gatwick [1700 Victoria > Horsham terminated due to lack of guard] 7336p [1815  > Horsham] Three Bridges 33061 Horsham 08648"

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