Table 18.

Table 18

Table 18 consisted of the services from Birmingham eastwards to Leicester, Peterbourgh and into East Anglia. A mixture of LMR and ER dmu's with a few 5-6 coach hauled rakes of stock forming the longer distance workings, with March based class 31s the booked motive power. Below is a small selection of scans showing these workings.

Photo: © UD.
31108 is seen upon arrival at Birmingham New St. with service 1M66, the 09:03 ex Cambridge on the 3rd of August 1983. This loco and stock later formed the 1E79 service, the 15:25 return to Cambridge. Between times, the stock would be taken for servicing at the long gone CS, on the Lawley St side of Vauxhall & Dudderston sta.

Photo: © UD.
The class 31 locomotives that produced on these services were not confined just to those from Eastern Region depots. 31231 was a Bristol Bath Rd based, boiler fitted example, that spent several days in late July/early August 1983 on the route. Captured here arriving at Nuneaton with the 1E80 16:14 New St - Norwich on 1st August 1983.

Photo: © UD.
This shot shows unrebuilt 31261 at Nuneaton with the 1E79 15:25 New street - Cambridge service, this time on 2nd June 1983.

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On summer saturdays, some of the BNS - Norwich services were strengthend and extended to Great Yarmouth. Here we see the return working of one such service arriving at Leicester on the evening of 2nd July 1983. 31414 leads 31424 on the 1M76 15:57 SO ex Yarmouth, to Birmingham New St.