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Keith Jarrett

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12th September 1980 saw me returning from London to visit my parents near Bristol
50026 Paddington to Swindon
Nice fester at Swindon as I had espied the loco for the Fridays only steam heat or so I thought. Instead it showed up on the generator van set (a Mark 3 set with a generator van)
47357 Swindon to Bath Spa
Not bad for what was a sort of mandatory move.
 
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Not bad at all :)

My moves for the 13th of September:

1990
47424 Leeds - Darlington
47475 Darlington - Leeds

2001
91012 Wakefield - Kings Cross
Tube to Liverpool St.
86215 Liverpool St - Ipswich
86217 Ipswich - Liverpool St
Tube to Euston
87025 Euston - Birmingham International
47747 International - Paddington

2002
Once again I was at the ELR.
This was when the line between Irwell Vale and Rawtenstall was closed after flooding had damaged a bridge.
To compensate for the loss of that bit of the route, trains terminated at Irwell Vale then ran back a mile and a half to "signal 30" before returning to Irwell Vale.
This filled the time that would otherwise have been spent festering there.
As there is no ability for a loco to change ends at Irwell Vale all services were top and tailed.
I won't list the full moves, but locos involved were 33117, 37197, 40145, D832 & 55016 (in Porterbrook purple) on no less than twenty-two runs.

2003
Back at the ELR; Rawtenstall was accessible once more and Heywood had opened at the other end of the line. This was another event which saw Freightliner sending a few locos.
D832 Bury - Heywood
40135 Heywood - Bury
27066 Bury - Ramsbottom
40145 Ramsbottom - Bury
66524 Bury - Rawtenstall
66524 Rawtenstall - Bury
47150 Bury - Rawtenstall
47150 Rawtenstall - Bury
66562 Bury - Rawtenstall
66562 Rawtenstall - Bury
D7076 Bury - Heywood
40135 Heywood - Rawtenstall
D7076 Rawtenstall - Bury

2008
A different heritage line, The Battlefield.
37227/37905 Shackerstone - Shenton
37905 Shenton - Shackerstone; it failed just outside the station and we were rescued by 20166 for the last few chains
20166 Shackerstone - Shenton
20166/37227 Shenton - Shackerstone
47640 Shackerstone - Shenton
47640 Shenton - Shackerstone
31130 Shackerstone - Shenton
37227 Shenton - Shackerstone
20166 Shackerstone - Shenton
20166 Shenton - Shackerstone
33019 Shackerstone - Shenton
33019 Shenton - Shackerstone
 

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12th September 1980 saw me returning from London to visit my parents near Bristol
50026 Paddington to Swindon
Nice fester at Swindon as I had espied the loco for the Fridays only steam heat or so I thought. Instead it showed up on the generator van set (a Mark 3 set with a generator van)
47357 Swindon to Bath Spa
Not bad for what was a sort of mandatory move.
Now KJ 47357 is a real biggy, can't say I had that for haulage.
55013, riding the trans pennine turns. 47475 was a belting 47, was never a big fan of the trans pennine livery it adourned mind.
Again some cracking moves, jealous of the hydraulic action. Still on my bucket list a warship and hymek.
 

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Having taken advantage of my parents' hospitality on the Friday evening, Saturday was set aside for bashing, especially as my parents were working for a fair part of the day.. Mum had a delivery to make in Bath so I cadged a lift. Starting off with an absolute whopper of a duff, the whole day went very well
47212 Bath Spa - Bristol TM
37181 Bristol TM - Newport
47377 Newport - Bristol TM
47256 Bristol TM - Bath Spa
31170+31181 Bath Spa- Bristol TM
50029 Bristol TM - Weston Super Mare
50029 Weston Super Mare - Bath Spa
47235 Bath Spa - Bristol TM
47226 Bristol TM - Taunton
47418 Taunton - Bristol TM
and then the bus back to my parents' place
The original idea was to go 50 bashing but as you can see, the odd winner got in the way!
 
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Back to 1986 and the second Network Day where you got the freedom of the NSE area for £4. Included in this was all the cross-country 47 turns and the 33s on the Portsmouth - Salisbury line.

Moves were

47605 Norwich - Ipswich
86205 Ipswich - Colchester
309604/606/618 Colchester - Liverpool St
Tube - Liverpool St - Paddington
47549 Paddington - Reading
47599 Reading - Portsmouth via Wokingham & Guildford
33021 Portsmouth - Salisbury
50001 Salisbury - Basingstoke
47454 Basingstoke - Reading
47473 Reading - Oxford
47556 Oxford - Reading
4 VEP 7772 Reading - Waterloo
Tube Waterloo - Liverpool St
86205 Liverpool St - Ipswich
On getting to Ipswich I hopped off to view the loco change and saw that the driver was a mate of mine
He gave me the nod, and I climbed into the cab for:
47582 Ipswich - Norwich

A memorable end to a memorable day
 

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Wow 2 mega days in history there.
KJ some proper traction there, very nice one to start the day, some big 47s among that list too. Not sure if I had 47212, i know i had a few of your others, 47377 rocked up on a Yarmouth turn. 37181 was a nice one to snaffle in too, was that day out a summer Saturday by any chance?
AJM a very memorable day indeed finished off with a cab ride in a complete beast. The epitome of a SF 47, dominos and white roof, phwooaar. Nurse more tablets please!!!! Were the 47s still in Notwich-Liverpool st turns then too or were they from Cambridge or Kings Lynn? Excuse my ignorance.
 

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Wow 2 mega days in history there.
KJ some proper traction there, very nice one to start the day, some big 47s among that list too. Not sure if I had 47212, i know i had a few of your others, 47377 rocked up on a Yarmouth turn. 37181 was a nice one to snaffle in too, was that day out a summer Saturday by any chance?
LSG, yes it was the final summer Saturday on the Western Region. There would be a whole eight months to wait for most of the summer dated trains to recommence.
212 was an Immingham loco at the time and IM locos of any description were never refused as they were as rare as the proverbial rocking horse dung. 47212 was on the Oxford -Paignton which would normally come off of one of the commuter trains the previous evening so where did Old Oak get a big IM duff from?
377 was a Bescot loco in 1980 so not that rare on passenger - likewise 226 and 235 were both Canton machines so again, their forays onto summer dated trains were fairly common
 

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47212 is one of the few on Keith's excellent move that I actually had, in fact it features in today's lists and was already dud then.
AJM580, that looks like a great day, ending with an outstanding memory.

Anyway, my rather less impressive moves for the 14th of September through the years include the following:

2001
47830 Paddington - Plymouth
08410 Plymouth sleeper portion shunt.
43063/43070 Plymouth - Camborne
47709 Camborne - Paddington
57601 Paddington - Exeter
47709 Exeter - Truro
47830 Truro - Paddington

2002
Another day at the ELR with the following locos featuring:
20087, 31435, 33117, 37197, 40135, 45135, 47212, 50015, 55016 & 66607.

2014
On holiday in Devon; Mrs 13 and I were staying near Digby. We spent the day visiting a few seaside places but had time to visit a heritage vehicle event at the South Devon Railway.
150243/143620 Digby & Sowton - Dawlish
143619/150234 Dawlish - Newton Abbot
43091/43015 Newton Abbot - Totnes
On to the SDR
Steam 5542 Totnes Riverside - Staverton
Steam 3205 Staverton - Buckfastleigh
D2246 Buckfastleigh - Staverton
09010 Staverton - Buckfastleigh
122100 Buckfastleigh - Staverton
33002 Staverton - Totnes Riverside
43301/43357 Totnes - Exeter
143620/150243 Exeter - Digby & Sowton
 

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Wow 2 mega days in history there.
KJ some proper traction there, very nice one to start the day, some big 47s among that list too. Not sure if I had 47212, i know i had a few of your others, 47377 rocked up on a Yarmouth turn. 37181 was a nice one to snaffle in too, was that day out a summer Saturday by any chance?
AJM a very memorable day indeed finished off with a cab ride in a complete beast. The epitome of a SF 47, dominos and white roof, phwooaar. Nurse more tablets please!!!! Were the 47s still in Notwich-Liverpool st turns then too or were they from Cambridge or Kings Lynn? Excuse my ignorance.
During Summer 1986, the 47s were doing London - Kings Lynn, plus the Ipswich - Norwich leg of trains from London
 

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I’m in Ireland at the moment but Friday 14/9/07 my friend Paul and I went to the GCR diesel gala which involved:
20098
25035
27056

31463
33116
37255
45125
47117

Excellent day out.
 

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These just seem to get better by the day guys (increasing my sickening jealousy by the day as well :E).

Some absolute beasts that you all got to travel behind.
 

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14th September 1986
Spent most of the day bus bashing around London then
5711 Waterloo to Clapham Junction
7788 + 7797 Clapham Junction to Streatham Common
47420 Streatham Common to Mitre Bridge Junction (additional call at Streatham Common due to engineering) routed via Herne Hill
85004 Mitre Bridge Junction to Watford Junction
86418 + 87007 Watford Junction to Euston
 

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This is such an excellent thread guys you really did have some excellent traction back in the day mr deltic 13 and keith i really wish i hadn’t thrown away my logs from when i was younger all i have to memory is having br green 26001 and 007 from inverness to dingwall and 37427 in scotrail livery from inverness to aviemore in the early 90s and 47674 somewhere from inverness.
 

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Thanks - I think the problem of lost notes is a common one.
There are many moves I did in the early 80s that I have no record of.

What I do have records of are the following moves.
15th September 1987
A day around West Yorkshire, featuring runs on 47406/47411/47445 & 47448.


2001.
47841 Paddington - Birmingham New Street
86425 New Street - Stafford
86226 Stafford - New Street
47746 New Street - Reading
43019/43128 Reading - Paddington
Underground to Kings Cross
91130 Kings Cross - Wakefield

Three years after this move HST power car 43019 was written off in the Ufton Nervert crash.

2002.
Back at the ELR for a third consecutive day.
Locos sampled today were D7076, 37197, 40135, D832, 45135, D1041 & 55016

2013.
Another heritage line (September is always a good month for diesel galas) the NYMR.
D1092 Pickering - Goathland
D821 Goathland - Pickering
D821 Pickering - Grosmont
55009 Grosmont - Pickering
55009 Pickering - Grosmont
37264 Grosmont - Goathland
D821 Goathland - Grosmont
24061 Grosmont - Pickering

At this point I will take my leave of this thread for a couple of weeks as Mrs 13 and I are heading off on holiday in a few hours.
I hope to have plenty of moves to read about when I return :)
 

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I also am pining for lost notes, especially 1987-1989. Ah well.

15/9/91
DMU Topsham - Exeter St David’s,
47716 Exeter - Basingstoke,
442 (uid) Basingstoke - Winchester
(Heading back up to the Mid Hants for a month of volunteering).
Have a lovely holiday 55013.
 
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Presumably another North west day ranger, puzzled by the 90043 move as to why it would stop at Leyland as presumably was an inter city service though as I recall an odd Preston to Birmingham New Street service served there? As is usual unit numbers were not recorded :frown:

31431 Barrow In Furness to Preston
47844 Preston to Blackpool North
xxxxxx Blackpool North to Salford Crescent
1420xx Salford Crescent to Manchester Piccadilly
86222 Manchester Piccadilly to Macclesfield
86231 Macclesfield to Stockport
1564xx Stockport to Crewe
37141 Crewe to Liverpool Lime Street
31460 Liverpool Lime Street to Wigan North Western
86222 Wigan North Western to Preston
90043 Preston to Leyland
1420xx Leyland to Preston
90027 Preston to Lancaster
xxxxxx Lancaster to Barrow In Furness
 

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September 15 1985 - Old Oak Common Open day (GW150)

47580 Norwich - Ipswich
86258 Ipswich - Liverpool Street
Across to Paddington on the tube
L120 + B430 Paddington - Old Oak Common - rare mileage into the depot with the pair of chocolate & cream liveried dmus

The highlight of the open day was all 5 GWR green locos (47079,47484,47500,47628 & 50007) lined up around the turntable

Returning home we had:

210001 Old Oak Common - Paddington
Tube to Liverpool Street
86221 Liverpool Street - Ipswich
47579 Ipswich - Norwich

5 years later - 15 September 1990 - a typical summer saturday move

31442 Norwich - Great Yarmouth via Acle
37219 Great Yarmouth - Norwich via Acle
37219 Norwich - Great Yarmouth via Reedham
31181 + 31219 Great Yarmouth - Norwich via Acle
47196 Norwich - Peterborough
47459 Peterborough - Norwich
 

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September 15 1985 - Old Oak Common Open day (GW150)

47580 Norwich - Ipswich
86258 Ipswich - Liverpool Street
Across to Paddington on the tube
L120 + B430 Paddington - Old Oak Common - rare mileage into the depot with the pair of chocolate & cream liveried dmus

The highlight of the open day was all 5 GWR green locos (47079,47484,47500,47628 & 50007) lined up around the turntable

Returning home we had:

210001 Old Oak Common - Paddington
Tube to Liverpool Street
86221 Liverpool Street - Ipswich
47579 Ipswich - Norwich

5 years later - 15 September 1990 - a typical summer saturday move

31442 Norwich - Great Yarmouth via Acle
37219 Great Yarmouth - Norwich via Acle
37219 Norwich - Great Yarmouth via Reedham
31181 + 31219 Great Yarmouth - Norwich via Acle
47196 Norwich - Peterborough
47459 Peterborough - Norwich
Great stuff, nice to see 210001 in there. Plus a good bit of nb action in Anglia.
 

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47135 Bristol TM to Bath Spa
31210 Bath Spa to Bristol TM
47316 Bristol TM to Bath Spa
33063 Bath Spa to Bristol TM
50024 Bristol TM to Birmingham New Street
50024 Birmingham New Street to Bristol TM
 

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15th September 1979
47135 Bristol TM to Bath Spa
31210 Bath Spa to Bristol TM
47316 Bristol TM to Bath Spa
33063 Bath Spa to Bristol TM
50024 Bristol TM to Birmingham New Street
50024 Birmingham New Street to Bristol TM
Honestly Keith you seem to have been pursued by 47/3s back then.
 

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Honestly Keith you seem to have been pursued by 47/3s back then.
Great stuff guys the only 47/3’s i can remember is the ones that used to work the log trains to inverness from dee marsh in the early 90s never ended up for haulage though.
 

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Great stuff guys the only 47/3’s i can remember is the ones that used to work the log trains to inverness from dee marsh in the early 90s never ended up for haulage though.
I think I only managed to get about four of the things back in the day.
I’ve picked up a couple of preserved ones since, but that section of the old Platform 5 is somewhat barren...
 

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I think I only managed to get about four of the things back in the day.
I’ve picked up a couple of preserved ones since, but that section of the old Platform 5 is somewhat barren...
One of the regulars was 47309 cant mind what the difference was between the 47/3 rfd locos and the 47/0s.
 

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One of the regulars was 47309 cant mind what the difference was between the 47/3 rfd locos and the 47/0s.
47309 was a popular one indeed, had about 40 of the 47/3s, many were pushed out on Summer Saturday turns in the North East. If the Yarmouth turn wasn't a 37, you could guarantee it would be a 47/3.
Off the top of my head, 47301, 302, 305, 309, 310, 312, 319, 372, 375, 377 and 379 were ones I roped in on a few summer turns in the North East. One of my faves was 47346, out of Peterborough to Redford. The first variant of the Railfreight grey livery, yellow cabs, red sole bar and dominoes. It was rammed too.
 
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16 September 2017 was the day I went to Polesworth and the Brain of Birmingham quiz, as detailed in my trip reports thread.

Also found an anomoly in my records - have corrected a move in 2002 to show 175011 from Salford Crescent to Deansgate, rather than the non-existent 170011...
 

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Honestly Keith you seem to have been pursued by 47/3s back then.

In the late 70s & early 80s, 47/3s (along with all the 47/0s that had no heating apparatus) were pretty common on passenger. It was only the Immingham and Thornaby ones that were really rare. Crewe and Bescot ones were as common as 47/4s in the summer months back then. About the only 47 hotspot that never seemed to have many visits by nb duffs was the North Wales Coast.

Any way, back to the time machine and 16th September 1978.
Fast car Nottingham to Coventry
310071 Coventry to New Street
Then joined the AC/DC tour and no, there were not any Aussie rockers on board even though some of their album titles were appropriate such as High Voltage and Highway to Hell
84002 New Street to Stockport
25204 Stockport to Manchester Piccadilly
76013+76021 Piccadilly to Rotherwood
76013+76021 Rotherwood to Piccadilly
25131 Piccadilly to Stockport
84002 Stockport to New Street
310064 New Street to Coventry
Fast car Coventry to Bristol
Winners all round, apart from the "fast car". And I think this is the first Class 76 haulage to appear in OTDIH
 

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There were a couple of turns during summer 1988 that bought Tinsley 47/0s and 47/3s down.
First 76 mentioned and possibly class 84 too? Or has an 84 come up already?
 

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Nope, first 84 as far as I am aware. I'll see how long it takes me to turn up an 83 now!
You had one on the 23rd August that you posted on 55013s thread. But that was just before he’d set this one up...
 

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16/9/91, 18/9/91 and 19/9/91:
This week 27 years ago found me racking up the miles behind the Mid Hants Railways finest... BR black liveried 08288, on the hedge cutting flailing train at the extraordinarily face bending speed of... 0.5 mph. :lol:
This involved a chap called Pat Bell driving the 08 as slowly as possible while a local farmer sat in his tractor on a well wagon and trimmed all the hedges with his tractors flail attachment.
My job was to keep the whole caboodle going as slowly as possible, which involved sitting in the brake van and winding the hand brake on and off.
My formal training consisted of: “Don’t wind the brake on so hard that the wheels lock up, and don’t forget your sandwiches”...
At least 25 miles behind (and in the cab once we’d finished for the day) the wee beast that week.
I probably wouldn’t have even revisited it if it wasn’t for this thread. :smile:
Happy times.
 
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