Back in the day...

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30/06/84
A Holiday to Bournemouth, just stars next to the loco in my notepad which indicates had for haulage I’m afraid so not much to go off.

86243 Manchester Piccadilly-Coventry?
50047 Coventry?-Reading
47543 Reading-Bournemouth.

Looking on the rail gen site I was on 1O15 08:58 Manchester Piccadilly-Weymouth so that must have been the train.

30/06/87
Had literally just started work so took advantage of the early finish to do some leaps and cover the PM Nottingham-Blackpool.

31435 15:38 Manchester Piccadilly-Stockport.
31447 16:09 Stockport-Manchester Oxford Road.
31444 16:36 Manchester Oxford Road-Manchester Piccadilly.
85014 16:38 Manchester Piccadilly-Stockport.
47638 18:30 Stockport-Manchester Piccadilly.
87023 18:55 Manchester Piccadilly-Stockport
47534 19:10 Stockport-Bolton (1M12 Harwich PQ-Blackpool N).

An Impromptu departure from the train hauled by 31444 was needed followed by legging it for 85014 as it was a winner for the year, it’s not just the traction that makes leaps like this impossible these days, would never make it up and down stairs and over footbridges as fast as I did back then! Pretty sure it was the Man Picc-Brighton the Roarer was on.

Looks like the Notts-Blackpool was non required ETH as I didn’t do it home!
Going through Manchester Victoria on 1M12 I noted that 47538 was hauling Bury Units M65453/M77174, presumably from/to works.

 

[87electric]

Friday 30/06/89
91005 + 43013 0632 Doncaster – Grantham

I had this combo 2 days later on July 2nd. I've tried to confirm over the years if 43013 was powering or not. It seems it was. A nice claw back for me since it is on NMT duties nowadays.

 

[xotGD]

30th June 1984 - Summer Saturday time:

47229 Newcastle - Darlo 1E36
37105 Darlo - Newcastle 1N13 (with CW2 already occupying the front seating bay I presume!)
47011 Darlo - Newcastle 1S51 (What happened to 40028?)
45150 Newcastle - Darlo 1M19
37023 Darlo - Newcastle 1E12

30th June 1987 - another drinking trip followed by:

47501 Cheltenham - New St 1S19
37692 + 37695 Lickey Bankers 1S19

30th June 1988 - my student life is over! Heading back home:

86242 New St - Stockport 1M10
47424 Stalybridge - Newcastle 1E57

Carrying my luggage was not helped by having a plaster cast on my arm, but that is another story...

30th June 1989:

31420 Newcastle - Heworth (Desperate Goyle scratching!)
47444 Newcastle - Darlo
47662 Darlo - Newcastle

30th June 1996 - presumably a work trip:

47840 Coventry - Reading
47814 Reading - Coventry

 

[CW2]

I had this combo 2 days later on July 2nd. I've tried to confirm over the years if 43013 was powering or not. It seems it was. A nice claw back for me since it is on NMT duties nowadays.

I think the original plan was for the class 43 to be running only to provide ETH, not traction power, but this caused some exhaust fires, so they quickly decided to reinstate the traction power. It was definitely powering when I had it, so you've definitely had it too

 

[CW2]

30th June 1984 - Summer Saturday time:

47229 Newcastle - Darlo 1E36
37105 Darlo - Newcastle 1N13 (with CW2 already occupying the front seating bay I presume!)

You might think that, I couldn't possibly comment.

47011 Darlo - Newcastle 1S51 (What happened to 40028?)

40028 worked south on a relief Glasgow to Scarborough, not the service train, so I wouldn't expect it to work back on 1S51.

 

[xotGD]

You might think that, I couldn't possibly comment.

40028 worked south on a relief Glasgow to Scarborough, not the service train, so I wouldn't expect it to work back on 1S51.

The 40 must have been first stop York, with insufficient cash in my pocket to do it. Still, two 37s made for a decent day.

 

[NorthWestRover]

Friday 1st July 1983

A sparky day!

87018 Warrington BQ to Crewe
87026 Crewe to Liverpool Lime Street
81009 Lime St to Crewe, 1G59 11.20 to Brum - required roarer
86323 Crewe to Preston
87011 Preston to Crewe
87020 Crewe to Preston
86248 Preston to Crewe
87023 Crewe to Preston
87006 Preston to Warrington BQ

The only 40 that appears to have been out on proper passenger duty was 093 on the 12.46 Portsmouth to Leeds from Brum to Derby which would have been neat but beyond my ticket by far. There were various 40s on parcels duty but I didn't get on any of them!

 

[CW2]

Sunday 01/07/79
Occasionally in this strange hobby of hours, there are days when everything just clicks, and you have an excellent day out. Conversely, there are some days which are simply awful. I acted on some dud gen about engineering diversions, and ended up spending much of the night shivering on Stockton station:
47431 0108 York – Stockton
47460 08xx Stockton – York
As if that ludicrous performance wasn’t enough, I had to have some more 47s in the evening:
47042 1809 York – Leeds
47418 1957 Leeds – York
47525 2329 York – Darlington
A day full of duffs and festering.
Having purchased another Darlington 3D ticket, it all gets a bit better from here on in …

Friday 01/07/83
50009 was working a Truro – Manchester Piccadilly service and was allocated right through to Manchester. It was allocated back on a Fridays Only 2225 Manchester Piccadilly – Penzance. That’s a train I have to be on!
47407 1854 York – Stalybridge
DMU Stalybridge – Stockport
EMU Stockport – Manchester Piccadilly
50009 2225 Manchester Piccadilly – Plymouth via Stoke, Stafford, Camp Hill, Bristol Temple Meads
One of the better class of overnight services.

Saturday 01/07/89
A day out with the family, doing the Ffestiniog circuit once more:
37407 0948 Crewe – Shrewsbury
37430 1050 Shrewsbury – Minffordd
“Mountaineer” 1435 Minffordd – Porthmadog
“Mountaineer” 1606 Porthmadog – Blaenau Ffestiniog
DMU 53451 + 53517 Blaenau Ffestiniog – Llandudno Junction
47648 1708 Llandudno Junction – Crewe

 

[xotGD]

50009 2225 Manchester Piccadilly – Plymouth via Stoke, Stafford, Camp Hill, Bristol Temple Meads

Very nice!

1st July 1986 - West Midlands Daytripper. Highlights were:

85031 New St - Wolves 1S71
81007 New St - Wolves 1P70

Also had 47469, 47529, 87016, 86228, 47628, 86405, 86241, 86426, 86257, 86403, 86413

1st July 1995 - Diesel Day on the Keighley & Worth Valley. Several trips up and down featuring:

D8031
D5209
D226
Shunter thrash with 23 + D2511

The bomb and rat worked singly and together; D226 only worked paired with the 20.

 

[NorthWestRover]

1st July 1995 - Diesel Day on the Keighley & Worth Valley. Several trips up and down featuring:

D8031
D5209
D226
Shunter thrash with 23 + D2511

The bomb and rat worked singly and together; D226 only worked paired with the 20.

Have you found that time machine? Surely this was D0226 rather than D226...

 

[xotGD]

Have you found that time machine? Surely this was D0226 rather than D226...

It carried the number D226 back then! But yes, the super-gronk, not a 40!

 

[NorthWestRover]

Saturday 2nd July 1983

Another day bashing AC Electrics...

86258 WBQ to Crewe, 1A18 06.30 Carlisle to Euston
87010 Crewe to Runcorn, 1F11 07.40 Euston to Liverpool
85038 Runcorn to Crewe, 1A32 10.00 Liverpool to Euston
87011 Crewe to Preston, 1S61 06.45 Paddington to Glasgow
86317 Preston to Wigan, 1Z** RLF Glasgow to Man Vic
86103 (nice) Wigan to Crewe, 1A57 12.59 Blackpool to Euston
86227 Crewe to Preston, 1P63 14.05 Euston to Carlisle
86031 (nice - and required) Preston to Crewe, 1K04 17.47 Preston to Crewe
33052 Crewe to Whitchurch, 1V07 19.30 Crewe to Cardiff - required Crompton
33209 Whitchurch to Crewe, 1M73 17.17 Cardiff to Crewe - required Crompton
87017 Crewe to Warrington BQ, 1P49 19.15 Euston to Carlisle

 

[CW2]

Monday 02/07/79
With my freshly purchased Darlington 3D ticket, I started off as I meant to go on:
40066 0041 Darlington – York
40080 0232 York – Edinburgh via Newcastle, Carlisle
27210 + 27211 0830 Edinburgh – Glasgow Queen Street
Eastfield was evidently short of big engines today, as they turned out a single 27 for an Aberdeen service:
27037 0935 Glasgow Queen Street – Stirling
27032 Banker Queen St – Cowlairs
40067 1011 Stirling – Glasgow Queen Street
Here they played the joker card. 27105 attached to the other end of the stock, as if to power the next working, the 1135 to Aberdeen, with 40067 providing banking assistance to Cowlairs. I thought I’d do it anyway. What I hadn’t noticed was that the 40 had not been uncoupled from the stock. So the 27 led up the hill and took a left hander at the top, as if going towards Westerton. Then it uncoupled, and the 40 (which had been pushing on the rear all the way) now became the train engine, and we took the Cowlairs North to East curve, and headed off (slightly late) towards Aberdeen. This unusual performance meant I’d had 40067 round all three sides of the Cowlairs Triangle on service trains in 75 minutes!
40067 1135 Glasgow Queen Street – Dundee via Cowlairs North (reverse)
27105 1135 Glasgow Queen Street – Cowlairs North
There didn’t seem to be any more 40s knocking around Dundee (the northern limit of my validity), so I had a little play with some more type 2s then headed for Edinburgh:
27041 1338 Dundee – Perth
27016 1414 Perth – Dundee
47208 1604 Dundee – Edinburgh
Because of the Penmanshiel Tunnel collapse, during the daytime trains were shuttling from Edinburgh to Dunbar for onward coach service to Berwick, to join daytime services from there. (A copy of the timetable which applied during the Penmanshiel block is available on the timetableworld.com website. ) I struck lucky with a class 40 on the Dunbar shuttle:
40151 1755 Edinburgh – Dunbar
40151 1845 Dunbar – Edinburgh
Back at Edinburgh, the loco that had brought me here overnight was waiting to take me back south overnight:
40080 2023 Edinburgh – Carlisle
For reasons which elude me now, I decided to alight at Carlisle and await an alternative loco. I think I was hoping for something a bit better than this:
(Tuesday 03/07/79)
47414 0043 Carlisle – York via High Level Bridge

Saturday 02/07/83
The overnight from Manchester Piccadilly re-engined from 50009 at Plymouth. I intended visiting my parents in Plymouth, but not before I’d visited Newquay:
50012 0535 Plymouth – Par
50034 0830 Par – Newquay
50044 0950 Newquay – Plymouth
I spent a few hours with my parents before an heroically early start on an F&W Railtour.

Monday 02/07/84
As from today I have been made officially “displaced” at Leeds Control following a reorganisation of the control office functions. I had to find myself another job – hence the earlier interview in Glasgow. Meanwhile, my only task each day was to present myself in the (former) Leeds Control office within office hours to pick up any post, and to “work as required.” Since there wasn’t any work, required or otherwise, I decided to “work” my way around Yorkshire, picking up new haulage where possible:
31434 0804 York – Leeds
47123 1100 Leeds – York
31164 1525 York – Scarborough
31164 1653 Scarborough – York
47538 1755 York – Leeds
47306 1910 Leeds – Selby
47453 2029 Selby – York

Sunday 02/07/89
A Sunday trip with the family to the SVR, assisted by there being a through cross-country train in the morning:
47455 1001 Crewe – Kidderminster via New Street
2857 1210 Kidderminster – Bridgnorth
2857 1355 Bridgnorth – Kidderminster
156 411 Kidderminster – New Street
81017 1644 Birmingham New Street – Crewe
The unexpected appearance of a class 81 on the train home from Birmingham was a distinct bonus.

 

[xotGD]

33209 Whitchurch to Crewe, 1M73 17.17 Cardiff to Crewe - required Crompton

A Slim to Crewe can't have been too common. Incidentally, in a couple of minutes time I will be scratching a Crompton for haulage. More details later...

 

[CW2]

A Slim to Crewe can't have been too common. Incidentally, in a couple of minutes time I will be scratching a Crompton for haulage. More details later...

I wonder if it is at the same venue where I've just scored a 25 and a 56 ...

 

[NorthWestRover]

I only had 2 x 33/2 and both involved Crewe. The second makes an appearance in a week's time.

 

[xotGD]

I wonder if it is at the same venue where I've just scored a 25 and a 56 ...

Could be!

The Grid was new for me too. Increasing the number I've had by 50%

It's a bit late now, so a full update will have to wait until the morning.

 

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02/07/87
31134 16:17 Manchester Victoria-Bolton (2P55 Man Vic-Bpl N)
31283 18:20 Manchester Victoria-Bolton (1M26 Nott-Bpl N)
47280 20:20 Bolton-Manchester Victoria

Others Noted…..
47534 1M12 Harwich PQ-Blackpool N
47649 1M87 Glasgow C-Manchester Victoria

Couple of long gone freight flows….
47357 Trafford Park-Holyhead
56074 Cawoods

03/07/87
31453 18:35 Bolton-Preston(1M26 Nott-Bpl N)
31311 22:19 Preston-Bolton(1M40 Gla-Man Vic)

31311 made a racket on a full rake of MK3’s!

Others noted….
81010 Glasgow-Man Vic/Birm NST(shown as 1M54 on Rail gen), however the real beast move noted was….
304028 Additional to Carlisle (presume from Crewe).

 

[NorthWestRover]

Sunday 3rd July 1983

Three required duffs to start the day and it didn't really improve.

47407 WBQ to Chester, 1D35 09.50 Man Vic to Llandudno (next Sunday just a tad better)
47477 Chester to Crewe, 1A18 09.50 Holyhead to Euston
47124 Crewe to Preston (via Manchester and dragging 86210), 1S57 09.45 Euston to Glasgow
86210 Preston to Lancaster, 1S57
Unit to Morecambe and back. Didn't require the line so presumably just killing time.
87023 Lancaster to Crewe, 1A57 15.50 Carlisle to Euston
87013 Crewe to Preston, 1S87 15.25 Weston-super-Mare (!!!) to Glasgow
86220 Preston to WBQ, 1V99 17.20 Glasgow to Bristol

 

[CW2]

Sunday 03/07/83

Having arrived unexpectedly in the West Country thanks to 50009 from Manchester on Friday night, I decided to get out of bed at stupid o’clock on Sunday morning to join the F&W railtour to North Wales The Menai Marauder .
37270 + 37272 0350 Plymouth – Crewe via New Street
40093 1016 Crewe – Llandudno Jn
40047 + 40028 1201 Llandudno Jn – Blaenau Ffestiniog
40028 1321 Blaenau Ffestiniog – Amlwch
40093 1630 Amlwch – Crewe
There I left the tour and headed home, having had a class 40 to Blaenau Ffestiniog for the first time, and making my first and (so far) only trip to Amlwch. I had some good traction home too:
86102 2040 Crewe - Euston

Tuesday 03/07/84
Another “Work As Required” day in Leeds, mainly spent poring over the vacancy list and filling in vacancy applications:
31164 0804 York – Leeds
31444 1235 Leeds – Skipton
31438 1440 Skipton – Leeds
31440 1712 Leeds – Keighley
47306 1842 Keighley – Selby
31311 2029 Selby – York via Hambleton
This was the period when there were through trains from Hull to Lancaster via Skipton, booked for 31/4s and 5 or 6 Mk 1 coaches. I enjoyed it while it lasted (which wasn’t very long).

Wednesday 03/07/85
The Haymarket DMU fleet was often in a bit of a pickle, especially when temperatures were warm. A regular move was to take the set off an incoming Poole portion from Carstairs that wasn’t needed again until next morning, and use it for one of the peak hour Cardenden services. For traction it would be whatever Millerhill or Haymarket could provide, usually a Type 2. The aftermath of the miners’ strike of 1984-5 meant there were locos sat idle which would previously have been confined to coal trains. I found out that mega-rare 26002 was down to work the Cardenden turn this evening, so I set off to have it.
47715 1600 Glasgow Queen Street – Edinburgh
26002 1705 Edinburgh – Cardenden
The much-anticipated 26002 was a very sickly loco, losing 25 minutes on the DMU timings!
Off it went to Thornton to run round for the return working. Meanwhile, one of the top class 26 men turned up on a DMU, to claim his prize, as 26002 was the last 26 he needed to clear the entire class for haulage. Of course they swapped it at Thornton for a 26 that wasn’t a total wreck, comprehensively bowling him …
26039 1845 Cardenden – Edinburgh
As a bonus, they sent it out again:
26039 1945 Edinburgh – Inverkeithing
27052 2140 Inverkeithing – Edinburgh
There was another target – required 37097 had worked an ADEX from Arbroath to Lincoln in the morning, and was returning to Arbroath …
37097 2223 Edinburgh – Arbroath
(Thursday 04/07/85)
37097 0043 Arbroath – Perth
The ECS off the ADEX was going to Polmadie, so I persuaded the guard to let me travel with him as far as Perth. There I dossed in the waiting room before joining the Inverness – Queen Street overnight:
47526 0350 Perth – Glasgow Queen Street… and straight back to work!

Friday 03/07/92
This was the final day of loco-hauled NSE trains out of Paddington.
47449 0745 Reading – Paddington
47701 + 47425 47423 1748 Paddington - Reading

 

[The exile]

Sunday 03/07/83

Having arrived unexpectedly in the West Country thanks to 50009 from Manchester on Friday night, I decided to get out of bed at stupid o’clock on Sunday morning to join the F&W railtour to North Wales The Menai Marauder .
37270 + 37272 0350 Plymouth – Crewe via New Street
40093 1016 Crewe – Llandudno Jn
40047 + 40028 1201 Llandudno Jn – Blaenau Ffestiniog
40028 1321 Blaenau Ffestiniog – Amlwch
40093 1630 Amlwch – Crewe
There I left the tour and headed home, having had a class 40 to Blaenau Ffestiniog for the first time, and making my first and (so far) only trip to Amlwch. I had some good traction home too:
86102 2040 Crewe - Euston

Tuesday 03/07/84
Another “Work As Required” day in Leeds, mainly spent poring over the vacancy list and filling in vacancy applications:
31164 0804 York – Leeds
31444 1235 Leeds – Skipton
31438 1440 Skipton – Leeds
31440 1712 Leeds – Keighley
47306 1842 Keighley – Selby
31311 2029 Selby – York via Hambleton
This was the period when there were through trains from Hull to Lancaster via Skipton, booked for 31/4s and 5 or 6 Mk 1 coaches. I enjoyed it while it lasted (which wasn’t very long).

Wednesday 03/07/85
The Haymarket DMU fleet was often in a bit of a pickle, especially when temperatures were warm. A regular move was to take the set off an incoming Poole portion from Carstairs that wasn’t needed again until next morning, and use it for one of the peak hour Cardenden services. For traction it would be whatever Millerhill or Haymarket could provide, usually a Type 2. The aftermath of the miners’ strike of 1984-5 meant there were locos sat idle which would previously have been confined to coal trains. I found out that mega-rare 26002 was down to work the Cardenden turn this evening, so I set off to have it.
47715 1600 Glasgow Queen Street – Edinburgh
26002 1705 Edinburgh – Cardenden
The much-anticipated 26002 was a very sickly loco, losing 25 minutes on the DMU timings!
Off it went to Thornton to run round for the return working. Meanwhile, one of the top class 26 men turned up on a DMU, to claim his prize, as 26002 was the last 26 he needed to clear the entire class for haulage. Of course they swapped it at Thornton for a 26 that wasn’t a total wreck, comprehensively bowling him …
26039 1845 Cardenden – Edinburgh
As a bonus, they sent it out again:
26039 1945 Edinburgh – Inverkeithing
27052 2140 Inverkeithing – Edinburgh
There was another target – required 37097 had worked an ADEX from Arbroath to Lincoln in the morning, and was returning to Arbroath …
37097 2223 Edinburgh – Arbroath
(Thursday 04/07/85)
37097 0043 Arbroath – Perth
The ECS off the ADEX was going to Polmadie, so I persuaded the guard to let me travel with him as far as Perth. There I dossed in the waiting room before joining the Inverness – Queen Street overnight:
47526 0350 Perth – Glasgow Queen Street… and straight back to work!

Friday 03/07/92
This was the final day of loco-hauled NSE trains out of Paddington.
47449 0745 Reading – Paddington
47701 + 47425 1748 Paddington - Reading

Are you sure that it was 47425 with 47701 on that last one? I boarded it at Reading (for a marathon journey to Reading West!) and have it as 47423.

 

[CW2]

Are you sure that it was 47425 with 47701 on that last one? I boarded it at Reading (for a marathon journey to Reading West!) and have it as 47423.

I've dug out my original notebook, and I definitely recorded it as 47425 - along with a note that it was load 14.
Unfortunately I think both 423 and 425 were regulars out of Paddington at that time, so it doesn't necessarily help.
I expect there is a phot of it somewhere, either online or in one of the magazines. Can anybody else shed any light?

EDIT: found it myself:
3 July 1992 - Thames Line last loco-hauled service, the 1747 London Paddington - Westbury, specially double-headed by 47701/423 to mark the occasion; ousted by new Class 165 Networker Turbos.
https://www.nsers.org/1992.html

Looks like I'll have to update my records.
Thanks for the correction - always welcomed.

 

[xotGD]

Delayed from yesterday:

2nd July 1983 - when Saturday comes...

37052 Sunderland - Newcastle 1N35
37106 Durham - Newcastle 1N13
45105 Newcastle - Durham 1M79
47014 Durham - Newcastle 1N31

Here's 106 - which head is mine...?

37106 | Tyne Yard: passing the yard with 1N13 09:10 Yarmouth… | Flickr

2nd July 1986 - these boozy evenings in Cheltenham were a bit of a regular occurrence:

50028 New St - Cheltenham 1V84
47453 Cheltenham - New St 1S19
37047 + 37230 Lickey Bankers

2nd July 2021 - it seems like only yesterday - that's because it was! A day out on the East Lancs, and very enjoyable it was too:

37109 Ramsbottom - Rawstenstall - Heywood - Rawtenstall
50015 Rawstenstall - Heywood - Rawtenstall
56006 Rawstenstall - Ramsbottom
45108 Ramsbottom - Rawstenstall
33109 Rawstenstall - Ramsbottom
47765 Ramsbottom - Rawstenstall
25279 Rawstenstall - Ramsbottom

Plenty of EE thrash, and the 56 and 33 were required.

 

[xotGD]

3rd July 1982 - the two Blackpool turns produced. I think you could connect from one to the other at Huddersfield , but on pocket money I had to settle for a shorter move and an extended fester:

46039 Sunderland - Newcastle 1N04
40124 Newcastle - Darlo 1M66
40012 Darlo - Newcastle 1E34

 

[NorthWestRover]

1982? I didn't realise that there were those days between strike days. Well done. That Saturday looks like it was a belter on the North Wales Coast too.

 

[D6130]

Nothing from me for the last couple of days, but Saturday 3rd July 1976 was a corker with a "Holiday Preview" ADEX from Woking to Rhyl on a blisteringly hot day in what turned out to be the hottest and dryest summer for years:

33 003 Woking-Willesden West London Junction via East Putney
81 021 Willesden West London junction-Crewe
47 454 Crewe-Rhyl
M50401/M56157 Rhyl-Llandudno (rare-ish Park Royal class 103 unit)
M50203/M56164 Llandudno-Llandudno Junction (class 101/103 combo)
47 446 Llandudno Junction-Rhyl
47 454 Rhyl-Crewe
85 016 Crewe-Mitre Bridge Junction
33 043 Mitre Bridge Junction-Woking via East Putney

There was obviously a lot of slack in the ADEX timings because we arrived at Rhyl half-an-hour early and while we were waiting for our train to Llandudno, the mayor, town band and a local 'beauty queen' turned up at the station to welcome the potential holidaymakers - all of whom had long since dispersed into the town. Whoops! It would have been nice to have had some class 40 haulage while in the area, but we were rather tied to the excursion departure time, so we had to make do with what was available. However, both the roarers, plus 33 043 and 47 446 were required for haulage, so it was quite a good day overall.

Locos seen:

Petersfield: 73 131
Guildford: 73 137
Woking: 33 003/011/012/024, 73 132, 74 002.
Clapham Junction: 25 315
Kensington Olympia: 08 235, 33 119.
Old Oak Common: 47 089.
Willesden Depot: 08 533, 25 072/204/251, 81 021, 85 011/023, 86 224/231/235/249.
Willesden/Wembley Yards: 08 234/683, 25 177.
Watford Junction: 08 886.
Bletchley: 25 175/252/256.
Rugby: 25 030/190/193/260, 81 011, 85 003.
Nuneaton: 08 467, 47 157, 87 029.
Polesworth: 86 211.
Stafford: 08 289.
Crewe: 08 222/631, 24 023/025/026/029/031/034/040/044/076, 25 055/100/138/143/147/322/327, 40 158, 46 004, 47 450/454, 81 012, 84 004,
85 012, 86 026/036/210/224.
Crewe Electric Depot: 08 068.
Crewe Works: 08 468.
Chester: 08 005.
Rhyl: 40 016 (going in the wrong direction, unfortunately!)
Colwyn Bay: 47 369 (still in green livery)
Llandudno Junction: 24 087, 25 154, 40 107/130/135.
Deganwy: 40 032.
Llandudno: 40 083.
Llandudno Junction: 24 052/087, 25 054/154, 40 014/033/107/129/135, 47 048/439/446/450.
Rhyl: 24 081, 47 454.
Chester/Crewe Works/Crewe Electric Depot: as outward.
Crewe Station: 08 843, 25 250, 37 230, 47 030, 84 004, 85 016, 86 008/206/243, 87 005/024/026.
Crewe Diesel Depot: 08 080/469, 24 023/035, 25 056/100/166/307, 40 158/171 (the latter still in green livery), 82 006, 85 012, 86 026.
Basford Hall Yards: 08 473/631, 24 027/136 (the latter still in green livery).
Stafford: 85 032.
Nuneaton: 08 467, 25 129/145/305, 87 029 (wonder why that had been sat at Nuneaton all day....failure?).
Rugby: 25 030/175/190/193.
Bletchley: 25 067/069/189, 47 157.
Wembley/Willesden Yards: 25 071/072/177/204/214, 85 018.
Willesden Freightliner Terminal: 86 031.
Willesden Depot: 85 023, 86 259.
Mitre Bridge Junction: 33 043.
Clapham Junction: 33 039, 73 123/131.

 

[The exile]

I've dug out my original notebook, and I definitely recorded it as 47425 - along with a note that it was load 14.
Unfortunately I think both 423 and 425 were regulars out of Paddington at that time, so it doesn't necessarily help.
I expect there is a phot of it somewhere, either online or in one of the magazines. Can anybody else shed any light?

EDIT: found it myself:
3 July 1992 - Thames Line last loco-hauled service, the 1747 London Paddington - Westbury, specially double-headed by 47701/423 to mark the occasion; ousted by new Class 165 Networker Turbos.
https://www.nsers.org/1992.html

Looks like I'll have to update my records.
Thanks for the correction - always welcomed.

I wish you'd been right - 47 425 eluded me. I'd been in Reading for a year in 1990 - 91, but left before the "Tinsley Chuckouts" appeared, so had had to make do mostly with run-of-the-mill NSE ones. Class47archives.blogspot.com has 425's last known passenger working as being on 25 June 1992, so it presumably wasn't feeling very well by 3rd July!

 

[CW2]

I wish you'd been right - 47 425 eluded me. I'd been in Reading for a year in 1990 - 91, but left before the "Tinsley Chuckouts" appeared, so had had to make do mostly with run-of-the-mill NSE ones. Class47archives.blogspot.com has 425's last known passenger working as being on 25 June 1992, so it presumably wasn't feeling very well by 3rd July!

I was living in Reading and commuting to Paddington during that period, so I had 47425 on 11 occasions, all Reading - Paddington or Paddington - Reading. I remember it had a distinctive washed-out appearance to the blue livery. My last run with it (now I know I didn't have it on the last day!) was Tuesday 23/06/92 on the 0648 Banbury - Paddington.

 

[The exile]

I was living in Reading and commuting to Paddington during that period, so I had 47425 on 11 occasions, all Reading - Paddington or Paddington - Reading. I remember it had a distinctive washed-out appearance to the blue livery. My last run with it (now I know I didn't have it on the last day!) was Tuesday 23/06/92on the 0648 Banbury - Paddington.

Looks as if the only thing of interest that turned up on NSE duties at the same time as I did during the entire time I was Reading based was 47 364, which I think spent a while on a DMU replacement turn that ran Paddington - Twyford, ECS to Reading, then did a Reading - Bedwyn stopper. Again - Reading to Reading West is not much, but better than nothing. The parcels turn on the 06.45 Padd - Cardiff (once I'd found out about it!) was a bit more lucrative (nice little out-and-back to Didcot to start the day with)!

 

[CW2]

Looks as if the only thing of interest that turned up on NSE duties at the same time as I did during the entire time I was Reading based was 47 364, which I think spent a while on a DMU replacement turn that ran Paddington - Twyford, ECS to Reading, then did a Reading - Bedwyn stopper. Again - Reading to Reading West is not much, but better than nothing. The parcels turn on the 06.45 Padd - Cardiff (once I'd found out about it!) was a bit more lucrative (nice little out-and-back to Didcot to start the day with)!

I did pick up a few oddities during my commuting in 1992, mostly 47s from the western engineering pool:
Monday 20/01/92 47366 0707 Didcot - Paddington, (preceded by an equally chilly 47237 on the 0642 ex Oxford). That evening the 1705 and 1720 ex Paddington were both cancelled, no locos.
Monday 06/04/92 47315 1720 Paddington - Banbury
Thursday 16/04/92 56001 1757 Paddington - Westbury (!)
Friday 24/04/92 47975 1650 Paddington - Banbury
Monday 01/06/92 47971 0648 Banbury - Paddington
Friday 26/06/92 47121 1748 Paddington - Bedwyn
The 1750 Twyford was 47315 on this date, so a choice of two NB 47s in 2 minutes.
Wednesday 01/07/92 I went home late with 47547 on the 2320 Paddington - Oxford, but I noted that the incoming train was powered by 47108.
Thursday 02/07/92 47105 1750 Paddington - Twyford, extended to Reading vice cancelled 1741 departure.