Diesel hydraulic workings

[stevread1]

After a discussion yesterday does anyone know if there was any class 35/42/43/52 workings through Rugby on the WCML?

 

[30907]

I don't know, but I would say highly unlikely (assuming we're not talking preserved locos) unless it was test trains in connection with the Rugby Test Plant. I can't think of a traffic flow from the WR to take them there. But I expect someone here will know....

PS the ECS to/from Wolverton Works that ran via Oxford-Bletchley was a 31 when I remember it in the early 70's.

 

[12CSVT]

Hymeks were diagrammed to work a Swindon to York overnight passenger working as far as Leicester Central in the 1960s, which went via Rugby (GCR route).

 

[Bevan Price]

Bletchley was the nearest location to Rugby on the WCML where I saw a Class 42 in the 1960s. Presumably it had worked there from Oxford.

 

[stevread1]

Bletchley was the nearest location to Rugby on the WCML where I saw a Class 42 in the 1960s. Presumably it had worked there from Oxford.

yes ive seen some pictures of a class 52 at Bletchley on the internet problay came off the Oxford branch.
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I don't know, but I would say highly unlikely (assuming we're not talking preserved locos) unless it was test trains in connection with the Rugby Test Plant. I can't think of a traffic flow from the WR to take them there. But I expect someone here will know....

PS the ECS to/from Wolverton Works that ran via Oxford-Bletchley was a 31 when I remember it in the early 70's.

Their used to be a parcels train that passed through Rugby at about 5am that was class 47 hauled that used to go over the "top" at Bletchley.Not sure where it came from.

 

[87015]

yes ive seen some pictures of a class 52 at Bletchley on the internet problay came off the Oxford branch.

Loads of Mendip stone trains came over Bletchley flyover booked Westerns but they wouldn't have got to Rugby. Apart from Wolverton most of the stone trains went to MML terminals - and there is a one rather outrageous record of a Western rescuing a failed peak and working the service, I think, from Bedford to Wellingborough.

 

[12CSVT]

Loads of Mendip stone trains came over Bletchley flyover booked Westerns but they wouldn't have got to Rugby. Apart from Wolverton most of the stone trains went to MML terminals - and there is a one rather outrageous record of a Western rescuing a failed peak and working the service, I think, from Bedford to Wellingborough.

There was a working to Elstow (via Bletchley then run round at Bedford) which was booked for a Western. They also sometimes worked to Luton stone terminal.

 

[Rugd1022]

In 1969 D854 'Tiger' worked the clayliner through Rugby with a Bescot Driver conducting the Gloucester Crewe, probably as far as Bletchely where another conductor was provided. My mate who worked in Rugby PSB at the time made an abortive attempt to cab it when it was stopped on the Up Goods alongside the station... he was told to politely 'f**K off!' by the Gloucester Driver. A few years later D1057 worked the same train through Rugby when it was diverted from it's usual route.

During the NBL Warships' short allocation to Bescot around that period, they were regularly seen at Coventry en route from Bescot to Banbury and back on booked workings, usually in the early hours of the morning.

 

[Johnuk123]

During the NBL Warships' short allocation to Bescot around that period, they were regularly seen at Coventry en route from Bescot to Banbury and back on booked workings, usually in the early hours of the morning.

That's right I well remember those Warships at Bescot. Did they have some specific job or were they just to bolster stock.

 

[Rugd1022]

That's right I well remember those Warships at Bescot. Did they have some specific job or were they just to bolster stock.

They were booked out on specific jobs whiich included freight and parcels work to Shrewsbury and Banbury, and I think one diagram invilved working a set of stock to Crewe and back via Stafford. There's a book currently 'in the works' being written about Bescot Depot based on one of it's now retired Driver's diaries, included in it will be a chapter on the NBL 43's time based there.

 

[Johnuk123]

They were booked out on specific jobs whiich included freight and parcels work to Shrewsbury and Banbury, and I think one diagram invilved working a set of stock to Crewe and back via Stafford. There's a book currently 'in the works' being written about Bescot Depot based on one of it's now retired Driver's diaries, included in it will be a chapter on the NBL 43's time based there.

Interesting, thanks.

 

[napierdeltic]

Class 52’s worked regular to Northampton on a stone train in their last years right up to them finishing in 1977. I used to see this quite often at Roade cutting. Regarding Wizzos on the MML two of them on the same day worked South Wales to Corby. I have a photo of one of them at Glendon South Junc between Corby and Kettering. It was in the early days with the loco in Maroon livery