NorthWestRover
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Certainly a few years earlier, they did. I was not really taking as much notice by 1989.
Moves book states it was the 1M14 1240 Poole-Liverpool Lime StreetWhat train was the 90 on, stopping at Hartford? That's quite unusual, isn't it?
Was this when 55022 was on hire to Virgin for a short period? I remember it working the New Street-Reading stretch on a few occasions around that time, when “Duff” availability was low.Saturday 26th June 1999
D9000 (55022) 1447 Reading - Birmingham NS
That one belongs in the random termination points discussion.Monday 26 June 1989
* 1T08 0935 Blythe Bridge - Blackpool North
Another fine mess you got yourself into.# Wish i recorded emu's etc fully at the time, but this was a move to visit a Laurel & Hardy club meeting in Guide Bridge.
Wow. I can imagine those at Stratford turning their noses up at the muck encrusted GD locos generally wore, aside their pristine white roofed examples.For a while the 0835 Liverpool Street to Kings Lynn was booked for a Gateshead class 47 and most, if not all, of 47401-420 worked it at least once.
Correct. During Summer of 1998 & 1999 it regularly did the SO 0658 Birmingham NS - Ramsgate & 1210 Ramsgate - Edinburgh (to Birmingham). Not sure of the headcodes but possibly 1O99 & 1S87.Was this when 55022 was on hire to Virgin for a short period? I remember it working the New Street-Reading stretch on a few occasions around that time, when “Duff” availability was low.
As did Top Shed years earlier when a Gateshead Pacific turned up for servicing, and stood next to their gleaming A4s. In fact if the 52A engine was booked to return on a prestige train from Kings Cross, the Top Shed cleaning gang would spruce it up before it left shed.Wow. I can imagine those at Stratford turning their noses up at the muck encrusted GD locos generally wore, aside their pristine white roofed examples.
Rumour has it the foreman would say, do they run? If so let someone else wash em. In fact from the bank side, I think i only ever seen the washplant used once, ironically a 47, in the mid 80s till the early 90s. I never ever saw anything else use it at Gateshead. I mean they mustve cleaned the Gennies at some point, especially when they named them. Think that week after naming was as clean as they ever got.As did Top Shed years earlier when a Gateshead Pacific turned up for servicing, and stood next to their gleaming A4s. In fact if the 52A engine was booked to return on a prestige train from Kings Cross, the Top Shed cleaning gang would spruce it up before it left shed.
I believe (in the latter years) there was an issue with the wash plant at Gateshead, rendering it unusable. Something like - the Metro tunnelled straight through the feed water pipes, or some such. Can anybody confirm?Rumour has it the foreman would say, do they run? If so let someone else wash em. In fact from the bank side, I think i only ever seen the washplant used once, ironically a 47, in the mid 80s till the early 90s. I never ever saw anything else use it at Gateshead. I mean they mustve cleaned the Gennies at some point, especially when they named them. Think that week after naming was as clean as they ever got.
Noteworthy for the fact that a 31 managed to get up the hill!Exeter Saint Davids)
31265 BR 1O24 1955 Exeter Saint Davids - Basingstoke (Exeter Saint DAvids to Exeter Central) at least it was uphill + chip shop move