Good finds those , you stuck at the search longer than me. Thanks.I must admit that I was a bit thrown by your question actually Gaz because photos of them are harder to find than I expected.
I did find a few photos on Flickr of 26008 in the mid 1980s with the yellow sticker though:
Edit - Also 26041:
26032 (like the model mentioned) did have them and possibly some others too?
26s absolutely wandered over to Glasgow, there are plenty of photos on Flickr of them working the Glasgow QS - Dundee semi-fasts throughout the early 80s, prior to the Dundee semi-fasts being curtailed, initially to Perth then later completely.
Can't lay my hands on any diagrams at the moment, but around that time class 26s - as well as class 25s and 27s - appeared quite frequently on the G &SW route Glasgow-Carlisle via Dumfries services. I can recall a Friday evening after-work pub crawl in Dumfries in 1981 when we had 26 031 on the 16 10 from Central. I also remember seeing several other members of the class on the line....but I never saw a 26 on the Stranraer line. They also appeared quite frequently on the Glasgow and Edinburgh-Dundee stoppers, turn about with 27s.
Had a bit of a senior moment there, of course they did, ignore me! Was heading south-west-ish from Dundee, mid week, with a 26, possibly late afternoon time (dusk was encroaching whilst 'on depot', that I do remember, prior to departing Dundee - April 81 period). It may have been possibly early (morning peak sort of time) the very next SX day, but notes/workings etc all lost. A change of train was made en route to Glasgow, in to a service headed by a Brush 4, so possibly at Perth, but other than that, no real clues? Just trying to identify the trains concerned I guess, but appreciate too many variables to come to any realistic conclusion.
If you changed at Perth arriving from Dundee, my guess would be from an Arbroath or Dundee to Perth 'stopper' to an ex-Highland Main Line service.
That is my best guess looking back at the GBTT's I have acquired via TTworld (wish I'd kept my hard copies, lol). My guess is something like 1701 or 1715 off DE, changing at Perth in to (eg) 1732 or 1942 (ex IS) to Queen Street, but equally could have been an overnight doss in Perth, but my gut tells me I would have caught a few zzzz's in Glasgow, knowing that fine city as I did back then!
The 1701 off Dundee was 1T42 1535 Aberdeen-Glasgow.
The evening Queen Street to Arbroath was also a fair bet for some interesting formations at times.
I really don't mind, its actually quite interesting to do a bit of detective work like this, but Magdalia seems to have made the effort for us
That is when the railways were Proper.
Sadly it was 1986 before I was allowed on "post O-level" teen holidays / trips / tours sans parentsThis scenario would fit the bill (for the 26), and also the need to change trains to get to Glasgow (which fits in with the 47 as well, be that leg the same evening or the next morning?). I did wonder about the 17.15 when looking at the GBTT entry (1980-81 TT). It seemed a bit of an odd disjointed service just running that short distance, so was thinking DMU originally, so thank you for the detailed clarification.
The other (later) train forward from Perth (80-81 GBTT) would appear to be 19.42 off Perth (ex Inverness), if that were a 47 diagram? It gives the grey cells a bit of exercise to think these things through, just so long as one doesn't obsess about it for too long I find..
. Thanks for all the input.No worries at all. But thank you very much for taking the time to look things up. I have a number of years in my records (early 80's) that are now an utter blank, memory wise, and note book wise, the latter being wide gaps date wise that I can't now explain, and yet in some cases I still have my own photo's, and more to the point negatives, confirming I was there (or here) etc. Very bizarre!
