Back in the day...

[Falcon1200]

Sunday 3rd July 1983
31257 + 31273 1548 Paddington-Manchester Picc (Reading-Oxford)

 

[D1537]

Saturday 4 July 1987
86435 1V36 Rugby-Coventry
47543 1V36 Coventry-B'ham NS
47610 1O02 B'ham NS-Oxford

Now we have some conflicting gen, that 47356 is either doing 1O03 south from Reading, or going north on 1E61. The problem here is that 1O02 doesn't stop at Reading, and if you wait for 1O03 behind at Oxford, then that misses 1E61 at Reading. So the only option to cover both bases here is ....

50017 1F17 Oxford-Reading

And of course it's going south, so we could have stayed on 47610 (or indeed waited for 1O03). Standard.

47356 1O03 Reading-Poole
47355 1M23 Poole-Stoke
86408 1V99 Stoke-B'ham NS
86419 1A90 B'ham NS-Rugby

 

[D1511]

Wednesday 4th July 1984

2O08 07.40 Edinburgh - Glasgow QS 47378 xos BS Haymarket - Glasgow QS
1A27 11.35 Glasgow C - Stranraer 47234 xos CF Glasgow C - Paisley GS (thanks @D6130 )
2O49 17.15 Glasgow QS - Edinburgh 47378 xos BS Glasgow QS - Edinburgh

I was reasonably smug pulling into Waverley behind 47378, but the resident platform neds were quick to tell me that 47305 xos TE had worked 1S15 and 47310 xos IM went to Dundee and back that day. 305 didn't elude me for long, but I never got 310 in the end.....

 

[D6130]

1A27 11.35 Glasgow C - Carlisle 47234

Presumably that should read Glasgow C - Stranraer?

 

[D1511]

Presumably that should read Glasgow C - Stranraer?

Thanks, my scruffy notebook actually says Stranraer, and the headcode should have alerted me to my error, so apologies for the mistranscription from notebook to thread. Corrected now.

 

[Falcon1200]

Monday 4th July 1983
45137 1307 Paddington-Liverpool LS (Oxford-Birmingham NS)
86323 1307 ditto (Birmingham NS-Wolverhampton)
47536 1603 Bristol TM-Newcastle (Birmingham NS-Derby)
20183 + 20187 1837 Skegness-Burton (Beeston-Derby)
47509 2125 Derby-Bristol TM (to Birmingham NS)
86009 2124 Bristol TM-Glasgow C/Edinburgh (Birmingham NS-Carstairs)

 

[Falcon1200]

Tuesday 5th July 1983
47703 2124 Mon Bristol TM-Glasgow C/Edinburgh (Carstairs-Edinburgh)
27042 0625 Edinburgh-Dundee (to Haymarket)
27050 2350 Inverness-Edinburgh (from Haymarket)
47712 0700 Edinburgh-Glasgow QS
47708 0830 Glasgow QS-Edinburgh (to Haymarket)
27050 0917 Edinburgh-Dundee (Haymarket-Inverkeithing)
47703 0922 Edinburgh-Inverness (Inverkeithing-Perth)
47709 1128 Perth-Edinburgh (to Stirling)
27050 1417 Edinburgh-Dundee (to Haymarket)
27042 1321 Dundee-Edinburgh (from Haymarket)
47708 1530 Edinburgh-Glasgow QS
37012 1823 Glasgow QS-Oban (to Dumbarton C)
37191 1758 Oban-Glasgow QS (from Dumbarton C)
86247 2050 Carlisle-Perth (Motherwell-Mossend Yard)
27007 2050 ditto (Mossend Yard-Larbert)
27038 2238 Glasgow QS-Dundee (Larbert-Stirling)
47467 2310 Edinburgh-Inverness (from Stirling)

Showing how things have changed, a couple of weeks ago I again took a West Highland train out of Queen Street, not of course to get a (hopefully) new 37 but a required Class 153!

 

[D1537]

Saturday 5th July 1986
No messing about rushing around the country today, I have a new 47 out and it's very convenient.

47445 1M41 Stockport-Crewe
86009 1G00 Crewe-Wolverhampton
47624 1O01 Wolverhampton-B'ham NS
47322 1E66 B'ham NS-March
47633 1N13 March-Peterborough
47318 1E72 Peterborough-March
47577 1M68 March-Nuneaton (no idea what happened to 322 there!)
86413 1D66 Nuneaton-Crewe
47447 1V99 Crewe-Coventry

 

[xotGD]

Saturday 5th July 1986
No messing about rushing around the country today, I have a new 47 out and it's very convenient.

47445 1M41 Stockport-Crewe
86009 1G00 Crewe-Wolverhampton
47624 1O01 Wolverhampton-B'ham NS
47322 1E66 B'ham NS-March
47633 1N13 March-Peterborough
47318 1E72 Peterborough-March
47577 1M68 March-Nuneaton (no idea what happened to 322 there!)
86413 1D66 Nuneaton-Crewe
47447 1V99 Crewe-Coventry

I was also on 1E66 as far as Peterborough, and then boarded 1N13 as you were baling off. See post 1,188 upthread...

 

[Falcon1200]

Wednesday 6th July 1983
37183 0640 Inverness-Wick & Thurso (to Dingwall)
26042 0710 Inverness-Kyle (Dingwall-Achnasheen)
26032 0710 Kyle-Inverness (Achnasheen-Dingwall)
37114 0600 Wick & Thurso-Inverness (from Dingwall)
26035 + 26046 1048 Inverness-Aberdeen
47429 1350 Aberdeen-Edinburgh (to Haymarket)
47711 1730 Edinburgh-Glasgow QS
27036 1838 Stranraer-Glasgow C (from Prestwick)
86257 2050 Carlisle-Perth (Motherwell-Mossend Yard)
26026 2050 ditto (Mossend Yard-Larbert)
27038 2238 Glasgow QS-Dundee (Larbert-Stirling)

 

[D1537]

I was also on 1E66 as far as Peterborough, and then boarded 1N13 as you were baling off. See post 1,188 upthread...

The famous "crew change at March" bail. If I remember correctly this was the last year you could do this.

Sunday 6 July 1986
47491 1M34 Rugby-B'ham NS (via Nuneaton)
47104 1M34 B'ham NS-Manchester Picc (via Bescot)
47437 1V05 Manchester Picc-Wem

To this day the only time I've got off at Wem!

33037 1M73 Wem-Crewe
47619 1D46 Crewe-Chester
47050 1G12 Chester-B'ham NS
87031 1A79 B'ham NS-Rugby

 

[D1537]

Tuesday 7 July 1987
Wasn't going to be out on the trains until later in the week, got a phone call early in the morning though...

86410 1G23 Coventry-B'ham NS
31450 1Z43 B'ham NS-Cheltenham (yes, I know, but it was in a good cause)
47310 1E67 Cheltenham-Derby
43134+43025 1V78 Derby-B'ham NS
47324 1V83 B'ham NS-Gloucester (vice HST, generator set)
43010+43020 1E38 Gloucester-B'ham NS
310046 B'ham NS-Coventry

 

[SuspectUsual]

31450 1Z43 B'ham NS-Cheltenham (yes, I know, but it was in a good cause)

At least it was largely downhill

 

[D1537]

At least it was largely downhill

If I remember correctly it was something like an hour's connection at Cheltenham as well, so fairly safe...

 

[Harpo]

At least it was largely downhill

And July. Helps with the heat/traction selector setting

 

[Falcon1200]

Thursday 7th July 1983
47471 1930 Wed Inverness-Euston (Stirling-Mossend Yard)
85016 1930 ditto (from Mossend Yard)
47533 0850 Paddington-Oxford

 

[Falcon1200]

Friday 8th July 1983
47462 1307 Paddington-Liverpool LS (Oxford-Birmingham NS)
31294 1818 Birmingham NS-Norwich (to Hinckley)
31415 1645 Norwich-Birmingham NS (from Hinckley)
81022 2030 Euston-Holyhead (Birmingham NS-Crewe)