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Wednesday 18 April 1979 (Day 6 of East Anglian Railrover) An evening spin to Cambridge after work as EA Railrover was still valid 31240 MR 1636 London Liverpool Street - Kings Lynn (London Liverpool Street to Audley End) 37099 MR 1822 London Liverpool Street - Cambridge (Audley End to Cambridge)...

Tuesday 16 April 1974 (and my one and only mainline Hymek haulage 62chains. Better than nothing I suppose) 78 TO 1E73 1512 Plymouth - Leeds (Plymouth to Exeter Saint Davids) D7017 OC 1O18 1555 Exeter Saint Davids - London Waterloo (Exeter Saint Davids to Exeter Central) following the failure of...

Saturday 15 April 1978 73120 1A96 0327 London Victoria - Eastbourne (London Victoria to Eastbourne) Rail Replacement Bus Service from Eastbourne to Brighton BR Welsh Highlander Pleasure Seeker 1Z82 0708 Brighton - Blaenau Ffestiniog ADEX 33064 HG (Brighton to Willesden West London Junction)...

Cheers for the correction. I don't have a the reporting codes for a number of my HST moves so your checking my guesses is much appreciated.

Friday 13 April 1973 D1065 84A 1A15 0635 Plymouth - London Paddington (Plymouth to London Paddington) D1039 84A 1B39 1827 London Paddington - Truro (London Paddington to Plymouth) Friday 13 April 1979 (Day 2 of an East Anglian Railrover. A Good Friday track bash) 47006 SF 0930 London Liverpool...

Sunday 3 April 1988 SNCF 67416 0335 Calais Maritime - Paris St Lazare (Calais Maritime to Amiens) SNCF 16524 0335 Calais Maritime - Paris St Lazare (Amiens to Paris St Lazare) SNCF 67448 0840 Paris St Lazare - Dives Cabourg (St Lazare to Trouville) SNCF 66452 0840 Paris St Lazare - Dives...

Saturday 01 April 1978 (a track bashing weekend starting in the NW and ending in the SW via the SE) 86018 WN 0249 Stafford - Liverpool Lime Street (Stafford to Crewe) coaches detached from 2315 (31/03) London Euston - Manchester Piccadilly hauled by 86244 WN 47483 CD 0218 Crewe - Holyhead...

Search Foynes Railway Project on YouTube. You will find drone footage of the progress to re-instate the Limerick to Foynes line including bridging the Maigue River at Adare. Fascinating to see as I managed to travel over the Foynes branch twice before it closed.

Sunday 30 March 1980 (a desperate track bash) 31111 YK 1E66 0055 Manchester Piccadilly - Cleethorpes (Doncaster to Grimsby) walk to Waltham LC 4*114 DMU LN Grimsby - Louth ECS (Waltham LC to Louth for the one and only time) (E50009+E56030+E56014+E50019+E56007+E50043+E50012+DTCL not recorded)...

Saturday 30 March 1974 (escaped from home for the day) 153 LA 1E30 0820 Plymouth - Leeds (Plymouth to Exeter Saint Davids) 33016 EH 1O10 1010 Exeter Saint Davids - London Waterloo (Exeter Saint Davids to Exeter Central) 33028 EH 1V04 0630 London Waterloo - Exeter Saint Davids (Exeter...

Saturday 12 March 1977 47033 LA 2B26 1745 Plymouth - Penzance (Plymouth to Keyham) 2 miles 10 chains in the wrong direction for going home. Why? Thursday 12 March 1981 (Rather than go home a bit of 55022 mileage on 1L22 2300 London Kings Cross - Bradford as far as Peterborough) 31186 YK +...

Friday 06 March 1981 (after a slight change in plan as noted above) 55015 FP 1S72 2230 (05/03) London Kings Cross - Edinburgh (Doncaster to Edinburgh) 40162 HA 1S79 2315 (05/03) London Kings Cross - Aberdeen (Edinburgh to Aberdeen) 47704 HA 1T28 1140 Aberdeen - Glasgow Queen Street (Aberdeen to...

Sunday 05 March 1978 (when you could do railtours over a weekend starting in different parts of the country with rail transport overnight to connect) Having found myself at Crewe on the Saturday night off the return LCGB (NW) Caledonian Railtour No4 it was off to Paddington for the RPPR Deltic...

Saturday 28 February 1981 (one of those weekends where I didn't go home after a late shift at work) After a late shift work early on this day in history found me at Peterborough (having got off the Friday overnight 1L22 2300 London Kings Cross to Bradford Interchange hauled by 55013) 55002 YK...

Saturday 25 February 1978 1* 310 EMU 2A11 0636 London Euston - Tring (London Euston to Tring) 86034 WN 1Z75 0730 Tring - Plymouth ADEX (Tring to Mitre Bridge Junction) 47128 LA 1Z75 0730 Tring - Plymouth ADEX (Mitre Bridge Junction to Plymouth) via Kensington Olympia (reverse) - Old Oak East...