Page last Updated :  06-01-08               Mark Nicoll says... "Oh dear, I should have listened to you at the time Rupert about Tractor 137!!! As it happens I did the following….ahem….moves on July 24th, in the hope of some class 40 activity around Preston 85032 Glasgow central to Preston 1Z09 mystex 47197 Preston – Blackpool 1Z09 47537 Blackpool – Preston 1Axx (think this was a train for Euston) 86235 Preston – Glasgow 1Z09 return mystex Other than the Roarer, not a productive day. My camera even failed that day."       G.Hutchison recalls some Scottish & Border moves... 311097 Gourock to Glasgow. 06.34 Gourock to Glasgow 26026 Glasgow to Kilmarnock. 07.25 Glasgow to Carlisle. 27001 Kilmarnock to Glasgow. 06.05 Carlisle to Glasgow. 47371 Glasgow to Paisley. 08.57 Glasgow to Stranraer. 37125 Paisley to Glasgow. 07.35 Stranraer to Glasgow. 87018 Glasgow to Carstairs. 10.45 Glasgow to Penzance. 37137 Carstairs to Edinburgh. 09.30 Liverpool to Edinburgh. 47706 Edinburgh to Queen.St 14.30 Edinburgh to Queen.St. 37023 Glasgow to Girvan. 16.35 Glasgow to Girvan. 37023 Girvan to Glasgow. 18.30 Girvan to Glasgow. 303062 Glasgow.L/L to Motherwell. 20.56 Dalmuir to Motherwell. 81019 Motherwell to Mossend. 20.50 Carlisle to Perth. 26015 Mossend to Stirling. 20.50 Carlisle to Perth. 47546 Stirling to Mossend. 19.30 Inverness to London Euston. See also Wednesday 25th July 1984...      'UD' remembers... "It was a warm sunny afternoon.  I decided to walk to Longport, some 5 miles distant, in order to get a few photos.  I also called in at Cockshute sidings, near Stoke.  Though the yard had closed the previous October it was still intact  and in use for storage of redundant stock :  83013+82004+82006+83002+83010+83007+83005+83008 were most notable, but also  The following units were also present - 75769+75825( ex 303059), Class 506 cars 59606/59506/59406, Class 504 cars 77158+65436 & 65443,  ex Class 309 cars 69108/100/107/101/104/108/102/103 and hauled stock 1527/1621/1641.  There were a few wagons there too.    En-route, I saw 25178 with a southbound rake of engineers bogie 'Turbot' wagons.    At Longport, 08927 was the yard pilot, soon to busy itself shunting the wagons that had arrived with 47287, from the wagon  works to the south of Stoke.  25185 then arrived at the yard with stone empties from Witton, later departing LD for stabling back at Stoke.  25278+25325 were next to appear, they also called at the yard to detach a raft of loaded sand wagons destined for Worksop from that  afternoons Oakamoor - St Helens sand train.  Most unusual amidst the local Crewe - Derby DMU's (formed by the very familiar Class 120 BR  Swindon Cross county types) and the then regular, all stations Manchester turns (formed of Class 304 EMU's), was 25229 with a single North  bound Nuclear flask wagon!   86234, 86243 & 86311 had worked through with the regular main line expresses too.  Once 47287 departed  southwards with that afternoons Longport - Bescot freight, with little more action expected, I soon followed for the long walk home.  Still, it  all seamed worth it at the time,  even more so once I got the photos back..."

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