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Suprised anyone hasn't posted about this, apart from images.
Ok so this is my story of it and split into 3 parts.
Part 1 - The Overnight - Was supposed to be with Shauna but she didn't have her pass.
Part 2 - The 47s
Part 3 - The After
Part 1
Arrived into New Street at about half 8 with 2hrs to spare so decided to go around the town a bit. Looked about the ICC and NIA areas then walked back to the station and got the 22:03 VT to Derby. This ended up very quiet all the way up to Derby. As i arrived into Derby i got off and had a little walk before getting the 23:15 from Derby back to Burton. Waited about 20 or so mins for the 23:44 back to Derby, reason of this was because i am not freezing me self all that time at Derby when i can do a lil trip back and forth.
So finally back to Derby at 23:59 where i waited for the 00:36 to Sheffield and that was about 10-15 mins early so it was nice to defrost. After departure i got meself a window to keep myself awake at stupid o clock, passing through the countryside was very nice. Arrived into Sheffield at 01:15 where i had just under for my train to Manchester Airport.
Got onto my 185 and had a lil chat with the cleaner as you do to pass the time away. Finally we left and the guard was friendly enough to let me sleep for the journey and the return so i didn't have to show my ticket again. Got into Manchester Airport about 10 mins early after nearly being launched through the window enough times with the brakes and acceleration.
Couldn't be bothered looking round the airport but was trying 2 keep awake so i didn't miss my stop, fell asleep then shot up like a brick looking where i was, seen Sheffield and dipped off the train just as it was about to leave. Not knowing that i could of stayed on the train to Doncaster and back and still made the HST.
Anyhow i got up the stairs but becasue it was cold and i was asleep i was shivering like heck, had to spend 10 mins relaxing then waited for my HST freezing. 06:16 finally departed where i met David and we had a lovely chat about a few posts and people then did a little bit of Heads Out.
Got into Leicester at 07:23 ish then me and David went to get a Mc Sh!t and waited for Alex S after seeing his texts about his glorious attempts on racing through West Midlands.
Part 2
After meeting with Alex S we seein the Steam Special go and got onto the 47s where we met Galvanize, RJ and Jamster and set off to Lincoln. Not much really happened but a few jokes and laughs with windows and grumpy gits wantin our windows.
Finally Lincoln late, got off walked up the steps, met up with Matt, said hello (true Brummie lads) and got down onto the platform waiting for Jordy, AJP and co.. <need to correct that>
On we got with naff seats all spread out so me and Jammy decided to go right at the very back as on the return to Nottingham we have the front, yes common sence kicked in today after the lack of sleep. So we get into Nottingham with Tom 1 ringing me trying to save money, but we all know you let me pick up the last time , and just missing us by a few mins. We get back into Lincoln where we did phots of the specials and so on so forth, said tra to Matt and went to get chippy what was on a skanky tray. Said bye to everyone for now and me and David got a 156/158 (what Tom JUST got off) back to Nottingham.
Part 3
We arrived into Nottingham and had a look at the Tram times see if we could do a lil trip but we got an earlier train to Derby, we spent that time looking at a Rasberry map seeing who had been where.
Got into Derby and walked around the town centre having a laugh with tales of the forum. Got one of those leaflets on the Derwent Valley line saying what you see out of the Window and set off on the 16:22 up to Matlock. Only us on the thing as we tried to spot everything on the map outside. As we got to about Whatstandwell it was black as the ace of spades to we though s0d that and got into Matlock.
At Matlock we decided to change ends but was too busy so walked back to our seats, busy is defined as more than 1 person in the coach. As we set off we phoned Tom up seeing if he wanted to race us to Loughborough and he agreed with a £10 bet on it. So we decided to walk right to the front of the train but realised Stinky didn't want to confront the people next to the bog again. We still walked up but we couldn't find them so we walked all the way.
Off at Derby where we dipped up the platforms to platform 1 where our train was late for a reason we find out later, yayy we made it with about 40 mins to spare before Tom could even get to Loughborough. Found out some pillac cut the wire to the signal points and we was stuck in Derby for 20 mins. As it was a one in one out system (as they said), we left seeing the nice tail backs waiting including a the train Alex was on.
Raced into Loughborough and we seen Jammy and his bird so we had a chat with them waiting for our Tommy <Class 313> to arrive into Loughborough, after all the delays i couldn't wait any more and got one back to Leicester waiting for my train. Into Leicester and waited for the 19:0X back to Brum where Tom again 1 ringed me but i was kind enough to ring back once. He was on platform 3 demanding his £2 back, however he didn't realise "he made a bet" and tried every excuse in the book to get out of it . My 170 came late and then i got on it but we could only use the 1st 2 coaches as it was dodgy doors on the rear.
Got into Birmingham about 20 mins past 8 walked up the steps and got a lift home.
The end of a great full day trip and turns out Joy54 was supposed to of got the 07:24 off New Street to Leicester and then go back from lincoln to the Rhymney line but over slept and ended up doing Rhymney only.
Ok so this is my story of it and split into 3 parts.
Part 1 - The Overnight - Was supposed to be with Shauna but she didn't have her pass.
Part 2 - The 47s
Part 3 - The After
Part 1
Arrived into New Street at about half 8 with 2hrs to spare so decided to go around the town a bit. Looked about the ICC and NIA areas then walked back to the station and got the 22:03 VT to Derby. This ended up very quiet all the way up to Derby. As i arrived into Derby i got off and had a little walk before getting the 23:15 from Derby back to Burton. Waited about 20 or so mins for the 23:44 back to Derby, reason of this was because i am not freezing me self all that time at Derby when i can do a lil trip back and forth.
So finally back to Derby at 23:59 where i waited for the 00:36 to Sheffield and that was about 10-15 mins early so it was nice to defrost. After departure i got meself a window to keep myself awake at stupid o clock, passing through the countryside was very nice. Arrived into Sheffield at 01:15 where i had just under for my train to Manchester Airport.
Got onto my 185 and had a lil chat with the cleaner as you do to pass the time away. Finally we left and the guard was friendly enough to let me sleep for the journey and the return so i didn't have to show my ticket again. Got into Manchester Airport about 10 mins early after nearly being launched through the window enough times with the brakes and acceleration.
Couldn't be bothered looking round the airport but was trying 2 keep awake so i didn't miss my stop, fell asleep then shot up like a brick looking where i was, seen Sheffield and dipped off the train just as it was about to leave. Not knowing that i could of stayed on the train to Doncaster and back and still made the HST.
Anyhow i got up the stairs but becasue it was cold and i was asleep i was shivering like heck, had to spend 10 mins relaxing then waited for my HST freezing. 06:16 finally departed where i met David and we had a lovely chat about a few posts and people then did a little bit of Heads Out.
Got into Leicester at 07:23 ish then me and David went to get a Mc Sh!t and waited for Alex S after seeing his texts about his glorious attempts on racing through West Midlands.
Part 2
After meeting with Alex S we seein the Steam Special go and got onto the 47s where we met Galvanize, RJ and Jamster and set off to Lincoln. Not much really happened but a few jokes and laughs with windows and grumpy gits wantin our windows.
Finally Lincoln late, got off walked up the steps, met up with Matt, said hello (true Brummie lads) and got down onto the platform waiting for Jordy, AJP and co.. <need to correct that>
On we got with naff seats all spread out so me and Jammy decided to go right at the very back as on the return to Nottingham we have the front, yes common sence kicked in today after the lack of sleep. So we get into Nottingham with Tom 1 ringing me trying to save money, but we all know you let me pick up the last time , and just missing us by a few mins. We get back into Lincoln where we did phots of the specials and so on so forth, said tra to Matt and went to get chippy what was on a skanky tray. Said bye to everyone for now and me and David got a 156/158 (what Tom JUST got off) back to Nottingham.
Part 3
We arrived into Nottingham and had a look at the Tram times see if we could do a lil trip but we got an earlier train to Derby, we spent that time looking at a Rasberry map seeing who had been where.
Got into Derby and walked around the town centre having a laugh with tales of the forum. Got one of those leaflets on the Derwent Valley line saying what you see out of the Window and set off on the 16:22 up to Matlock. Only us on the thing as we tried to spot everything on the map outside. As we got to about Whatstandwell it was black as the ace of spades to we though s0d that and got into Matlock.
At Matlock we decided to change ends but was too busy so walked back to our seats, busy is defined as more than 1 person in the coach. As we set off we phoned Tom up seeing if he wanted to race us to Loughborough and he agreed with a £10 bet on it. So we decided to walk right to the front of the train but realised Stinky didn't want to confront the people next to the bog again. We still walked up but we couldn't find them so we walked all the way.
Off at Derby where we dipped up the platforms to platform 1 where our train was late for a reason we find out later, yayy we made it with about 40 mins to spare before Tom could even get to Loughborough. Found out some pillac cut the wire to the signal points and we was stuck in Derby for 20 mins. As it was a one in one out system (as they said), we left seeing the nice tail backs waiting including a the train Alex was on.
Raced into Loughborough and we seen Jammy and his bird so we had a chat with them waiting for our Tommy <Class 313> to arrive into Loughborough, after all the delays i couldn't wait any more and got one back to Leicester waiting for my train. Into Leicester and waited for the 19:0X back to Brum where Tom again 1 ringed me but i was kind enough to ring back once. He was on platform 3 demanding his £2 back, however he didn't realise "he made a bet" and tried every excuse in the book to get out of it . My 170 came late and then i got on it but we could only use the 1st 2 coaches as it was dodgy doors on the rear.
Got into Birmingham about 20 mins past 8 walked up the steps and got a lift home.
The end of a great full day trip and turns out Joy54 was supposed to of got the 07:24 off New Street to Leicester and then go back from lincoln to the Rhymney line but over slept and ended up doing Rhymney only.