I watched "Dave" make a fleeting visit to the Wensleydale Railway today as they dropped 47714 off, so there can't have been any damage. General wibble suggested the Class 70 had damaged the track causing the 50 to fall off.How did you get on btw.......was there a derailed hoover in the way?
Another reason for me to dislike GM diesels, as if there weren't sufficient reasons already.
I had to cut short my visit on Friday for reasons I'll not go into, so just did one return trip with the 20s down the hill for the 37s back up. I say 37s, but 508 fagged on Keighley bank, so 57 did all the work as far as Ingrow loop, where 508 was resuscitated. 57 dragging three dead locos (the 20s were on the back) plus 6 Mark 1s was entertaining.How did you get on btw.......was there a derailed hoover in the way?
I remember 37090 well as a Cambridge line regular but especially for a Shoeburyness to Spalding Adex when the train divided (not intenionally!) near Bishops Stortford.
I also remember 37090 well as, after arriving at Stranraer on the overnight with a 27+47 combo, it was on the early train to Glasgow, it was freezing, and the boiler didn't work.
I started bashing in around 1981 and I've posted some of my Class 40 moves in this thread before (there are some starting at post #5958) unfortunately a lot of my books from this era have been lost in the years since. My only complete records are from 1985 to 1989 which is when I packed it in myself
Ah, 40s as well! In that case we may have bumped into one another somewhere in N Wales that year! I've lost 2 books, so I have a hole in 1982, which is real pity, as I was out and about lots that year. 1985 was when my interest dwindled with so much fewer loco hauled services about and not as many Adexs, Reliefs and Footexs. I didn't really like the big logos and numbers either.....it felt a bit like dumbing down to me! And there were no 40s left ....I started bashing in around 1981 and I've posted some of my Class 40 moves in this thread before (there are some starting at post #5958) unfortunately a lot of my books from this era have been lost in the years since. My only complete records are from 1985 to 1989 which is when I packed it in myself
While I always noticed things whenever I travelled by train after I'd lost interest, it wasn't until I started using the Caley Sleeper a couple of years ago that my interest was rekindled.....and I'm now building a model railway to recreate my early spotting and bashing days in miniature! The modern railway is a pale shadow of the one that I knew, so my only option is to recreate my own railway, exactly as I remember it.
That's a pity. They were my favourite diesels for haulage, and my best times behind a loco (hanging out of the window with arm outstretched, of course!) were definitely on the 40 circuit from Holyhead across to Scarborough at the start of the 80s. There were some good older lads that did 40s which also helped with the fun and I had a few pints and fish and chips at the seaside with them.....there was a particularly nice bloke from Dewsbury I remember. However, there were also some bashers that were verging on hooligans, and I remember a fist fight involving 15 or so bashers on the platform at WBQ, which I think was Manchester Utd/Leeds Utd related. They all got lifted by BTP and had to watch 40135 leave for Llandudno with the rest of us flailing at them!
