Page last Updated :  16-03-08  Below, a selection of gen, moves and anecdotes from the day in question...        Will D. Downing logged the following... "I spent the last week of June 1985 commuting from Long Buckby to Euston and, armed with a week-long All-Zone Capitalcard, doing the complete London Underground. This was back in the days when the Jubilee line ended at Charing Cross, and there was only one station at Heathrow; also, I managed do the erstwhile Epping-0ngar & Holborn-Aldwych branches. But by Thursday, all those tube lines were making me claustrophobic, so I spent Friday 28th as follows: 310.048        Long Buckby             depart    08:50                              Euston                arrive    10:12                         Northern line to 313.045        Old Street                  depart    11:23                 Highbury & Islington        arrive    11:34 416.313   Highbury & Islington        depart    11:46                  Gospel Oak                    arrive    11:51 53455 & 53529    Gospel Oak       depart    12:15                      Barking                      arrive    12:49 302.296        Barking                      depart    12:58                          Grays                     arrive    13:18 53361 & 54423    Grays                 depart    13:21                        Upminster                 arrive    13:32 307.121        Upminster                  depart    13:41                        Romford                   arrive    13:49 315.832          Romford                   depart    14:09                        Stratford                    arrive    14:21 416.318         Stratford                      depart    14:50             Willesden Junction                 arrive    15:24 501.142        Willesden Junction        depart    15:47                         Stonebridge Park        arrive    16:04 501.171        Stonebridge Park           depart    16:25             Harrow & Wealdstone            arrive    16:36 501.157        Harrow & Wealdstone   depart    16:55                      Watford Junction            arrive    17:03 501.183        Watford Junction            depart    17:27                     Highbury & Islington        arrive    18:14                           Victoria line to 310.076        Euston                           depart    19:02                       Long Buckby            arrive    20:33"    Mark Nicoll says... "Here are my moves for that weekend... (47586 Queen St - Perth 1N05 evening of 27/6) 28/6/85 47550 Perth - Inverness 1N05 37025 Inverness - Kyle 2H81 37025 Kyle - Inverness 2H82 47209 Inverness - Aberdeen 1A52 47428 Aberdeen - Montrose 2A80 43162/108 Montrose - Edinburgh (unknown train) 47715 Edinburgh - Glasgow Queen St (thought to be 2130 ex EDI) 81003 Glasgow Central - Carstairs 1V61 29/6/85 87011 Carstairs - Carlisle 1V62 47441 Carlisle - Stranraer 1S06 26043 Ayr - Stranraer 1S06 pilot. 47535 Stranraer - glasgow C 1A92 86214 Glasgow C - Carlisle 1Zxx 47356 Carlisle - Glasgow C 1S37 30/6/85 37090 Glasgow Queen St - Dumbarton 1Y19" Colin Brooks made the following moves... "Moves for 29/06/85   0603 Frinton on Sea  - Thorpe                    Frinton on Sea  - Thorpe   308 45X   0613 Clacton - London Liverpool Street -- Thorpe - Liverpool st        309 6xx & 6xx   0830 Waterloo - Weymouth                   3001 - to Basingstoke   0903 Poole - Liverpool Lime Street      47319 Basinstoke - Oxford via Reading west curve   1025 Portsmouth - Leeds                       47236 Oxford - Leicester via Solihull and Nuneaton            Birmingham - Norwich                   31428 Leicester - Peterbourgh            Peterborough - Kings Cross           47522 Peterborough - Kings Cross            Liverpool st - Thorpe                      309 6xx / 6xx            Thorpe - Frinton on Sea "               308 45X 'Captain Grey' remembers... Date              Loco                   From                      To                          Via                      Working                          Code       Miles   Score?  Notes June 28, 1985 45117 DERBY BIRMINGHAM NEW ST 0743HULL-CF 1V74 41.00 June 28, 1985 47471 BIRMINGHAM NEW ST BIRMINGHAM INTL. 0950MAN PICC-BRIGHTON 1O74 8.50 June 28, 1985 47413 BIRMINGHAM INTL. BIRMINGHAM NEW ST 0850BRIGHTON-MAN PICC 1M50 8.50 June 28, 1985 47557 BIRMINGHAM NEW ST OXFORD COVENTRY 0800NEWC-POOLE 1O19 71.50 June 28, 1985 47091 OXFORD BIRMINGHAM NEW ST SOLIHULL 1246POMPEY-LEEDS 1E22 67.00 * June 28, 1985 37135 BIRMINGHAM NEW ST CHELTENHAM SPA 1435YK-PLYM RELIEF 1V21 48.00 * June 28, 1985 47069 BIRMINGHAM NEW ST COVENTRY 1725MAN PICC-PAD 1V16 19.25 * June 28, 1985 85025 COVENTRY BIRMINGHAM NEW ST 1910EUSTON-WOLVES 1G44 19.25 * June 28, 1985 45120 CHELTENHAM SPA BIRMINGHAM NEW ST CAMP HILL 2124BTM-GLAS SLEEPERS 1S19 51.00 BANKED UP LICKEY BY 37189+37172 June 28, 1985 37189 BROMSGROVE BLACKWELL 2124BTM-GLAS 1S19 2.25 M37172, BANKING 45120 June 28, 1985 37172 BROMSGROVE BLACKWELL 2124BTM-GLAS 1S19 2.25 * M37189, BANKING 45120 June 29, 1985 47237 BIRMINGHAM NEW ST BRISTOL TM CAMP HILL 2217MAN PICC-PZ 1V43 96.50 * June 29, 1985 47575 BRISTOL TM WOLVERHAMPTON CAMP HILL 2215PZ-LIV 1M05 109.25 June 29, 1985 85014 WOLVERHAMPTON BIRMINGHAM NEW ST 0225PRES-BNS 1G00 12.75 * June 29, 1985 31277 BIRMINGHAM NEW ST HINKLEY 0530WOLVES-HARWICH 1E62 25.00 * June 29, 1985 47275 BIRMINGHAM NEW ST NUNEATON 0810BNS-YARM 1E66 20.25 * June 29, 1985 45001 NUNEATON BIRMINGHAM NEW ST 0825LEICESTER-PAIGNTON RELIEF 1V52 20.25 * June 29, 1985 47471 BIRMINGHAM NEW ST OXFORD 0645YK-POMPEY 1O27 71.50 June 29, 1985 47319 OXFORD BIRMINGHAM NEW ST SOLIHULL 0903POOLE-LIV 1M51 67.00 * June 29, 1985 47439 BIRMINGHAM NEW ST BANBURY COVENTRY 0800NEWC-POOLE 1O19 48.75 June 29, 1985 47372 BANBURY BIRMINGHAM NEW ST COVENTRY 1005WEYM-BRADFORD 1E28 48.75 * June 29, 1985 47362 BIRMINGHAM NEW ST CHELTENHAM SPA CAMP HILL 1018EDB-PLYM RELIEF 1V52 51.00 * "Looking through 'Genesis' my haulage database and doing a bit of number crunching, I can safely say that for lines in the book   the weekend of Friday/Saturday June 28/29th 1985 was my most (?) successful ever. Scratch fever really took hold. Out of 22 loco   haulage's in two days I managed to score 14?  Variety was also evident...  with classes 31, 37, 45/0, 45/1, 47/0, 47/3, 47/4 and 85.   Don't laugh too hard at the obligatory 'ned' Birmingham International fill in/spin/desperate scratch/boredom moves... that's how   most of us got so many lines in the book! I remember Maglev being the fill in, fill in move whilst at International.... only one time   to be stuck at the Airport only to see a Crompton pull in on a late running Poole train! BOWLED. But I digress...... I'd done Hoovers   pretty solidly up to around 85 so I then tried(?) concentrating on the scratches... in hindsight leaving it too late for many of the big   little engines.... if you know what I mean.  I should have done it the other way round. Of the weekend in focus, 47091 was pretty   hell on the 1246FO (Didn't this used to run fast from Oxford or Banbury to New St.?) 37135 was like a zoo with several areas?   road-shows producing for the fairly regular hellfire 1420 relief. I don't list Tram or Unit haulage's... but I did a tram?up-to New   St for the ned Cov move as we had been quoted required 47069... for another tram down the bank for the fester for S19... spent in   the pub opposite the station. Then followed the Friday night NESW overnights.. duff 237 being flipping freezing. Three big threes   on the Saturday and serious fatigue and rover brain saw me and Glyn 'Big Duff' Wade make an earlier than usual exit by way of   a Tram from Cheltenham to Derby. 909.50 off real trains.... not bad considering some of the ned leaps.?  On the Sunday I scored   47278 too! Greedy."

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