Last stations to have a passenger loco to run around it's train

[Mk1dreamer]

I was born too late to see the locos run around at Norwich so I was wondering when the last trains and where had to run around (always wanted to see in real life)

 

[stuu]

Lasted at Aberystwyth into the 90s, just. Must have been later elsewhere. North of Scotland perhaps?

 

[Sun Chariot]

I was on this (37140 + 305403), 29th Sept 1990.

37140 Seven Sisters 29Sep90

29th September 1990, the day of West Anglia (wherever that is) Rail Day. There were some Kings Lynn - Cambridge shuttles with 37354 and 37218, possibly a 73 about, and this. An absolutely mental charge round between Enfield Town and Stratford with 37140, seen here leaving Seven Sisters.

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Once at Enfield Town, the 37 used the loco release crossover, next to the platform bufferstops, to run round its train.
We returned along the Seven Sisters loop, South Tottenham, past Ripple Lane depot, finishing up at Stratford.
Oh - the oily smoke erupting out the 37, in that Flickr photo? Yep, it did that for the entire journey.

 

[D841 Roebuck]

At this precise moment, maybe 08472 at Chasetown Church Street at approx 18:30 yesterday (unless another preserved line did a Diner train later in the evening).

 

[rower40]

When the Night Riviera runs via Honiton, there is a run round at Exeter St Davids.

 

[Snow1964]

There were some loco hauled cross country trains which reversed at Reading well into 1990s, although as HSTs gradually took over many XC services, the running round died out. Before the station rebuild there was centre tracks which allowed the run round.

I cannot remember now if some survived as loco hauled until voyagers arrived.

 

[Twingo37175]

Still happens with the north Yorkshire moors railway at whitby. The station was redone 10 years ago to adapt for this.

 

[65477]

On the main line the Jacobite at Mallaig runs round once or twice a day during the season. Otherwise as @D841 Roebuck said look at preserved lines

 

[12C]

Does the sleeper loco run round at Fort William before stabling for the day?

 

[ac6000cw]

The cl. 47s used between Norwich and Yarmouth on the summer saturday Liverpool Street - Great Yarmouth trains ran around at Yarmouth until those trains ceased (sometime in the 2010s ?).

 

[LNW-GW Joint]

Class 57s ran round their Pendolinos at Holyhead until Virgin went over to all-Voyagers on the North Wales route, in I think 2008 (the VHF timetable).

 

[pdq]

Travelling from York to Swansea on the direct Cross Country berween 1991 and 1994, the loco ran round at Gloucester (I think}. I guess that carried on until the withdrawal of that service. When did that happen?

 

[Mat17]

What about when Virgin ran the 47s and MK2 on XC routes up until about 2001/2? They only had the loco on the front, so I guess they either ran round at the terminus or they had another loco put on the back and the one on the front detached, not sure which. I only ever saw them passing through Sheffield.

 

[norbitonflyer]

Does the sleeper loco run round at Fort William before stabling for the day?

Don't think so. It propels the train out to the sidings, and runs round there. As I recall, the same thing happens at Penzance and Inverness

 

[The exile]

Travelling from York to Swansea on the direct Cross Country berween 1991 and 1994, the loco ran round at Gloucester (I think}. I guess that carried on until the withdrawal of that service. When did that happen?

Unsurprisingly, Gloucester calls were progressively confined to the HST operated services, IIRC.

 

[yorksrob]

There were some loco hauled cross country trains which reversed at Reading well into 1990s, although as HSTs gradually took over many XC services, the running round died out. Before the station rebuild there was centre tracks which allowed the run round.

I cannot remember now if some survived as loco hauled until voyagers arrived.

I remember them doing that in the early noughties as well.

 

[Morayshire]

Don't think so. It propels the train out to the sidings, and runs round there. As I recall, the same thing happens at Penzance and Inverness

If you are including empty stock moves to stabling points, then the Aberdeen sleeper loco should still be running around the sleeper before heading off to the sidings in the morning. Evening stock move involves propelling the stock back into the platform.

 

[Gloster]

I am not sure whether the regular 37 worked trains on weekdays to Weymouth around 2000 ran round in the platform or went out to the Jersey Sidings.

 

[Magdalia]

I was born too late to see the locos run around at Norwich so I was wondering when the last trains and where had to run around (always wanted to see in real life)

A few Liverpool Street/Norwich trains were extended to/from Yarmouth on summer Saturdays until at least 1995. How long did that go on for?

 

[MadMac]

A few Liverpool Street/Norwich trains were extended to/from Yarmouth on summer Saturdays until at least 1995. How long did that go on for?

That presumably wouldn’t have been a run round as it would have come in as an electric.

 

[Llanigraham]

Still happens with the north Yorkshire moors railway at whitby. The station was redone 10 years ago to adapt for this.

And on the Corris Railway, and the Talyllyn, and the Ffestiniog, and the Welshpool and Llanfair, and the Llangollen and probably numerous other preserved lines, but I suspect the OP means the "big" railway.

 

[12C]

One I’d nearly forgotten about, the Arriva Wales ‘WAG’ express used to run round at Holyhead, when it was still Class 57 hauled. This stopped when the Class 67/DVT combo was introduced in (I think) 2012.

Happy to be proven wrong, but if the OP is referring to a regular booked run round of a loco hauled passenger train, rather than charters/diversions, this could be the last one?

 

[Jimini]

I remember them doing that in the early noughties as well.

Yep, same here!

 

[The exile]

That presumably wouldn’t have been a run round as it would have come in as an electric.

Was it a propel out to run round at Yarmouth?

Presumably as long as Virgin X-Country still had hauled diagrams there would have been a run-round somewhere - at one of the destinations (unless stock was always taken out of the station to run round - which I doubt)

 

[yorksrob]

Yep, same here!

Yes, knackered old mk2's with the lights out in some carriages and the buffet not working.

Happy days

 

[Jimini]

Yes, knackered old mk2's with the lights out in some carriages and the buffet not working.

Happy days

That’s the badger!

 

[Merle Haggard]

Possibly 'run - rounds' were a recent method of working.
I suggest that because, on the Midland Main Line when it was a trunk route, St Pancras - Scotland services (and the Euston - Glasgow sleeper that went MML from Mkt Harborough) reversed twice, at Nottingham and Leeds, and my recollection was that the change was by slip working, i.e., another loco backed on to what had been the back of the train, and the incoming loco was left behind, then being used to take over the next working. I also have a recollection that the same thing happened at Fort William with the through trains to Mallaig (in NBL Type 2 days).
But I am not completely sure of this - I'm talking about 1965 - 1970 so a while ago, but I do remember , on the MML, passing a waiting light engine on the run in to the reversing station.

 

[Cheshire Scot]

Does the sleeper loco run round at Fort William before stabling for the day?

Don't think so. It propels the train out to the sidings, and runs round there. As I recall, the same thing happens at Penzance and Inverness

It has to run round so that it can then shunt the stock to the siding which is parallel with the platforms.

 

[172007]

Last steam loco for British Rail to run around a train was in 1999 on the Vale of Rheidol.

1989 as corrected by [SIZE=13px]@InkyScrolls[/SIZE]

 

[Rescars]

Where were the last locations where electric locos ran round their trains? Presumably the running round at Birmingham New Steet and Oxley (Wolverhampton) finished with the introduction of DVTs.