On this day in history.

[barrowjack]

Network North West Day 20th October 1990
I have already posted this on one of my threads but thought it was worth dusting down and reposting in this thread too!

In the early 90’s ‘Network North West’ as it was then referred too, occasionally staged some locomotive hauled running days, many trains hauled by freight locomotives. Everything by now being ‘sectorised’. Anyway, Saturday 20th October 1989 was one of these days,

37422 Barrow in Furness to Chorley
26025 / 31434 Chorley to Lancaster
56035 / 31413 Lancaster to Manchester Victoria
155xxx Manchester Piccadilly to Crewe
37691 / 37408 Crewe to Liverpool Lime Street
31132 Liverpool Lime Street to Preston
142xxx Preston to Barrow in Furness

Not a great deal of moves, obviously on that day I went for quality rather than quantity! Interestingly, 37422 made its next appearance in my haulage book on 13th April 2017 on the Cumbrian Coast, 26 and a half years later, and still on a service train!

 

[Cowley]

What an excellent day!

 

[55013]

20/10/1990:
Like Barrowjack, my mates and I were enjoying the Network Northwest Day.

47450 Leeds - Manchester Piccadilly
26025/31434 Manchester Victoria - Bolton
37422 Bolton - Victoria
20140/20057/31461 Victoria - Bolton
56035/31413 Bolton - Victoria
56035 Victoria - Liverpool Lime Street
90012 Lime Street - Runcorn
37691/37408 Runcorn - Lime Street
31132 Lime Street - Preston
31132 Preston - Lime Street

20/10/1999
90142 International - New Street
90142 New Street - International
87002 International - New Street
37429 New Street - Crewe
47854 Crewe - Stafford
37415 Stafford - New Street
86245 New Street - International
87003 International - New Street
87003 New Street - International
90142 International - Coventry
87025 Coventry - Wolverhampton
47827 Wolverhampton - International

20/10/2000:
156470 Huddersfield - Manchester Piccadilly
90004 Piccadilly - Stockport
90007 Stockport - Macclesfield
47828 Macclesfield - Preston
87024 Preston - Glasgow Central
158716/158727 Glasgow Queen Street - Aberdeen
47773 Aberdeen - Edinburgh

20/10/2003:
37405/37408 Leeds - Carlisle
37408/37405 Carlisle - Leeds

20/10/2004:
67002 Edinburgh - Inverness
Mrs 13 and I then had a day in Inverness, staying in a hotel that night.

 

[55013]

21/10/1991:
Staying local.
Unrecorded Wakefield - Leeds
47821 Leeds - Wakefield
91025 Wakefield - Leeds
Unrecorded Wakefield - Leeds
47821 Leeds - Wakefield
47833 Wakefield - Leeds
91003 Leeds - Wakefield
91024 Wakefield - Leeds
91025 Leeds - Wakefield
91022 Wakefield - Leeds
47500 Leeds - Bradford Forster Square
47500 Bradford Forster Square - Leeds
91022 Leeds - Wakefield
This was during the time before Forster Square was electrified; there was a small pool of 47s allocated to hauling the Kings Cross to Bradford services for the last few miles. 47500 was briefly in that pool, still in green but lacking all the GWR plates.

21/10/1999:
47702 Crewe - New Street
47711 New Street - Stoke
47789 Stoke - New Street
87032 New Street - International
87025 International - New Street
87006 New Street - Wolverhampton
86240 Wolverhampton - New Street
87006 New Street - International
47845 International - Stafford
87034 Stafford - Crewe

21/10/2000:
90040 Edinburgh - Euston
87021 Euston - New Street
87013 New Street - Milton Keynes
86243 Milton Keynes - Euston
87027 Euston - Macclesfield
87024 Macclesfield - Stoke
47812 Stoke - Manchester Piccadilly
158778 Piccadilly - Huddersfield

21/10/2004:
Mrs 13 and I had spent the previous day in Inverness. Today we caught a DMU (not recorded) to Aberdeen and spent the day exploring there before finishing on the sleeper.
67009 Aberdeen - Edinburgh

 

[55013]

22/10/2004:
The last day of our Scotland adventure.
90030 Edinburgh - Euston
Some London sightseeing
91103 Kings Cross - Wakefield

22/10/2011:
A running day for 33035 at the Ecclesbourne Valley Railway.
Three round trips between Wirksworth and Duffield.

 

[D841 Roebuck]

23 October is also pretty barren for me. However, on that date in 1999 I did a "flit" round the North West which involved 43069 + 43089 from Wigan to Warrington, and then scoring the track from Helsby to Hooton (with compulsory new shack at Ellesmere Port) then also new track into and out of Manchester Airport, on a through train from Crewe to Piccadilly, powered by 170510, my first of this class.

 

[47403]

Network North West Day 20th October 1990
I have already posted this on one of my threads but thought it was worth dusting down and reposting in this thread too!

In the early 90’s ‘Network North West’ as it was then referred too, occasionally staged some locomotive hauled running days, many trains hauled by freight locomotives. Everything by now being ‘sectorised’. Anyway, Saturday 20th October 1989 was one of these days,

37422 Barrow in Furness to Chorley
26025 / 31434 Chorley to Lancaster
56035 / 31413 Lancaster to Manchester Victoria
155xxx Manchester Piccadilly to Crewe
37691 / 37408 Crewe to Liverpool Lime Street
31132 Liverpool Lime Street to Preston
142xxx Preston to Barrow in Furness

Not a great deal of moves, obviously on that day I went for quality rather than quantity! Interestingly, 37422 made its next appearance in my haulage book on 13th April 2017 on the Cumbrian Coast, 26 and a half years later, and still on a service train!

Just read this and only yesterday I saw this on a Railway related Facebook group. Which I'm sure will be of interest to you and Mr 13, the photo is credited to Steve Bap, who added 26025 and 31434 and half the world await to leave Barrow.

 

[Cowley]

Great photo, and interesting reading about the day chaps.

 

[Keith Jarrett]

20th October 1978
50042 (class 114 DMU) Nottingham to Grantham
47425 Grantham to Peterbrough
47458 Peterbrough to Sleaford

21st October 1978
55015 Sleaford to Peterbrough
47414 Peterbrough to Sleaford
55005 Sleaford to Kings Cross
55005 Kings Cross to Peterborough
55008 Peterborough to Leeds
55008 Leeds to Peterborough
47547 Peterbrough to Grantham
37049 Grantham to Peterborough
55008 Peterborough to Doncaster
55005 Doncaster to Grantham
50036 (class 114 DMU) Grantham to Nottingham

22nd October 1978
Working in the road transport industry, freebie tickets to the motor show came our way. Seemed rude to refuse so ...
47103 Derby to Birmingham New Street
83008 Birmingham New Street to Birmingham International
86248 Birmingham International to Birmingham New Street
47482 Birmingham New Street to Derby

23rd October 1978
An evening excursion to Leicester to visit the De Montfort Hall to see Hawkwind
45112 Nottingham to Leicester
45147 Leicester to Nottingham

24th October 1987
5916 Wimbledon to Clapham Junction
5736 Clapham Junction to Waterloo
50005 Waterloo to Andover
33208 Andover to Salisbury
33059 Salisbury to Southampton
1225+1237 Southampton to Bournemouth
33114 Bournemouth to Poole
33112 Poole to Weymouth
33115 Weymouth to Bournemouth
2003 Bournemouth to Waterloo
1210 Waterloo to Wimbledon
5837 Wimbledon to St Helier

 

[barrowjack]

Just read this and only yesterday I saw this on a Railway related Facebook group. Which I'm sure will be of interest to you and Mr 13, the photo is credited to Steve Bap, who added 26025 and 31434 and half the world await to leave Barrow.View attachment 54251

Great photo thank you for sharing it!

 

[55013]

Great photo indeed, I echo the thanks.

I've never done anything of note on the 23rd of October, but the 24th has thrown up a couple, including some from the poorly recorded (by me) 1980s.

24/10/1984:
45140 Leeds - Huddersfield
45138 Huddersfield - Leeds
45127 Leeds - Dewsbury
45128 Dewsbury - Leeds
40086 Leeds - Huddersfield

24/10/1987:
47418 Huddersfield - Leeds
45106 Leeds - Wakefield
43039/43080 Wakefield - Leeds
47413 Leeds - Huddersfield
Unknown traction to Wakefield
45106 Wakefield - Leeds
A very rare occurrence of me recording the HST on this move.
It was one of the first moves I did after a couple of years out.

24/10/2003:
37405/37408 Leeds - Carlisle
37408/37405 Carlisle - Leeds

 

[47403]

Great photo indeed, I echo the thanks.

I've never done anything of note on the 23rd of October, but the 24th has thrown up a couple, including some from the poorly recorded (by me) 1980s.

24/10/1984:
45140 Leeds - Huddersfield
45138 Huddersfield - Leeds
45127 Leeds - Dewsbury
45128 Dewsbury - Leeds
40086 Leeds - Huddersfield

24/10/1987:
47418 Huddersfield - Leeds
45106 Leeds - Wakefield
43039/43080 Wakefield - Leeds
47413 Leeds - Huddersfield
Unknown traction to Wakefield
45106 Wakefield - Leeds
A very rare occurrence of me recording the HST on this move.
It was one of the first moves I did after a couple of years out.

24/10/2003:
37405/37408 Leeds - Carlisle
37408/37405 Carlisle - Leeds

Pair of 37s over the S&C very nice indeed. Another of my fave gennies in that list too 47413, always had a thrash fest behind that one. I was shocked to read you'd recorded the zing moves too. I always wrote them down, especially the ones on the Newcastle-Swansea/Plymouth, as they were generally ones i required for sight at the time.

 

[47403]

Great photo thank you for sharing it!

Your welcome, Jack and Mr 13. Not my photo but weird how I'd seen that pic, then read the tale behind it on here a day later. Bit nostalgia with photographic evidence is always a bit sweeter.

 

[55013]

Pair of 37s over the S&C very nice indeed.

Not half. That was a glorious few months
The first time I did the S & C Syphons was 18th October 2003 and my last run was on 1st July 2004.
37405/37408 and 37411 were the main locos, although a couple of no heat ones also appeared.
It's a shame, from my point of view, that when Northern reintroduced loco hauled services they chose the Cumbrian Coast (I know the reasons why they did) instead of the Settle and Carlisle.

I was shocked to read you'd recorded the zing moves too.

Me too!

 

[55013]

And so on to today.

25/10/1997:
A nice day out with four of us doing a railtour from close to home.

37097/37407 Huddersfield - Cardiff
37097/37407 Cardiff - Huddersfield

25/10/2003:
An excellent day for 45135 and myself at the GCR(N).
Following a series of e-mail conversations with a senior chap at the line, cab rides were arranged for us.

25279 Ruddington - Rushcliffe Halt (with a run round at Fifty Steps Junction)
Here we met our contact.
50007/37075 Rushcliffe - Loughborough. I was in the cab of 44004, which was on the rear; Carl was on the train.
44004 Loughborough - Fifty Steps, with me in the cab.

44004_2003.10.25_Cab Ride_Forward view_a by Phil Wood, on Flickr

25279 Fifty Steps -Ruddington. I was still in the cab of the Peak and Carl was now in the cab of the 25, having got in at Rushcliffe Halt.
As the 44 was well off the platform when I got off I had the opportunity to get a unique shot.

44004_2003.10.25_Ruddington_a by Phil Wood, on Flickr

I then walked back to the platform and boarded the train having had a thoroughly enjoyable experience.
Carl remained on the Rat.

44004 Ruddington - Fifty Steps
25279/50007 Fifty Steps - Rushcliffe Halt
37075 Rushcliffe Halt - Fifty Steps
25279 Fifty Steps - Ruddington
37075 Ruddington - Fifty Steps
25279 Fifty Steps - Rushcliffe Halt
44004 Rushcliffe Halt - Loughborough
37075 Loughborough - Rushcliffe Halt
50007 Rushcliffe Halt - Fifty Steps
44004 Fifty Steps - Ruddington

Given his user name you might expect 45135 would have preferred the 44 but we didn't know what the traction would be when it was arranged and it just fell that way.
The good news for him was that class 25s have very good cab heating. It was a very cold day and he was toasty and warm.
The same couldn't be said about me on the Peak.
Frozen fingers notwithstanding it had been a fabulous day out for both of us and one that we both look back on fondly.​

 

[Keith Jarrett]

2014 is the only time that I seemed to have done anything of interest on 25th October when it was a full blown trip in Greater Manchester taking the red pen out for a jolly!
25th October 2014
Dud 390047 provided the traction From Euston to Stockport. Thereafter the following fell victim to my red pen
142042
150145
156420 156424 156426
175104
185119 185133 185146
323227 323230 323239
350401
390155
Winner 390132 provided the traction home
Plenty more units were cleared for the obligatory 10 miles

26th Ocober 1979 saw me heading to Manchester for a job interview
47484 Bristol Temple Meads to Cheltenham Spa
31413 Cheltenham Spa to Birmingham New Street
37234 +37248 were the Lickey bankers - I made sure I was in the back coach to capitalise on the thrash
86021 Birmingham New Street to Manchester Piccadilly
86233 Manchester Piccadilly tro Birmingham New Street
47540 Birmingham New Street to Didcot
47029 Didcot to Reading
50022 Reading to Paddington
And bad news, I did not get the job.

 

[D841 Roebuck]

25/10/2003 saw me visiting the Gloucestershire and Warwickshire Gala. 24081, 37099, 37215 and 47376 were scored, dud 47105 was sampled, and I had my first experience of Class 14, with an outrageously feisty performance from D9539. It may have resembled the illegitimate offspring of a Tardis, two Junction Boxes and a Pannier Tank, but boy, was it noisy - and remarkably nippy off the mark...

 

[Cowley]

That’s got to be the best description of a class 14 that I’ve ever heard.

 

[87electric]

October 25th 1980
The driver of 45029 encouraged me into the cab for a trundle up and down Nuneaton for a half hour. How things have changed.

 

[55013]

26/10/1984:
47497 Leeds - Huddersfield
47421 Huddersfield - Leeds
DMU Leeds - Huddersfield
47401 Huddersfield - Leeds

Of note is 47497, which later became the last "shove", 47717.

26/10/1999
47849 Wakefield - Birmingham New Street
37429 New Street - Wolverhampton
47806 Wolverhampton - New Street
87032 New Street - International
90009 International - New Street
47822 New Street - Wolverhampton
37415 Wolverhampton - New Street
37042 New Street - International
87015 International - Coventry
90009 Coventry - International
37042 International - New Street
87032 New Street - International
47814 International - New Street
90009 New Street - International
87026 International - New Street
HST New Street - Wakefield

A nice day out from the time before you needed to take out a second mortgage to buy a Wakefield to Birmingham return.
37042 was dud but an enjoyable addition to moves book; it was on a VXC International terminator, presumably from Manchester.

26/10/2001:
A West Yorkshire Day Rover, with some interesting numbers.

91109 Wakefield - Leeds
90238 Leeds - Wakefield
43158/43156 Wakefield - Leeds
91106 Leeds - Wakefield
91107 Wakefield - Leeds
156490 Leeds - Wakefield
91013 Wakefield - Leeds
91120 Leeds - Wakefield
90142 Wakefield - Leeds
90142 Leeds - Wakefield
91029 Wakefield - Leeds
91002 Leeds - Wakefield
91025 Wakefield - Leeds
91029 Leeds - Wakefield

A rare run behind one of the short lived 90/2s, Freightliner's 90142 and a mix of refurbished 91s and those still to be done.

27/10/1989:
47588 Huddersfield - Leeds
47406 Leeds - Keighley
DMU Keighley - Leeds
91005 Leeds - Wakefield

47588 was in Speedlink livery, which was a nice change from the usual Pennine machines.

 

[55013]

28/10/1989:
50027 Basingstoke - Woking
50007 Woking - Basingstoke
50050 Basingstoke - Woking
50027 Woking - Basingstoke
50017 Basingstoke - Woking
50009 Woking - Basingstoke
50043 Basingstoke - Woking
50050 Woking - Basingstoke
50003 Basingstoke - Woking
50016 Woking - Basingstoke
50009 Basingstoke - Woking
50043 Woking - Basingstoke

28/10/2006:
A visit to the Embsay & Bolton Abbey railway for their diesel gala.
D2203, 08773, 20189, 31119 & 47004 went in the book.

 

[Keith Jarrett]

The 27th October is not throwing up much of interest
27th October 2003
43019+43170 Paddington to Cardiff on a work trip
I returned to Bristol the following evening.
43019 is of note being written off in the accident at Ufton Nervet level crossing

28th October 1985 saw one of my regular ventures down the Southend Victoria branch with a twist
302282 Liverpool Street to Rochford
302282 Rochford to Shenfield
made the -3 on to the last up on the main line so bailed across for
86233 Shenfield to Liverpool Street

29th October 1982 saw a mini track bash in Kent (Sheerness branch) using some rateable units
1529+6108 Victoria to Rainham
7882 Rainham to Sheerness
7209 Sheerness to to Sittingbourne
1597+6151 Sittingbourne to Victoria
All winners apart from 1597

 

[55013]

29th October - nothing other than a second day at the Embsay and Bolton Abbey Railway in 2006, featuring the same locos.

30/10/2010:
A Spitfire mini-tour.
37038/37601 York - Saltburn
47500 Saltburn - York

 

[D841 Roebuck]

29/10/79 - 47513 was motive power from Leeds to York on a spotting trip. That's the only move I have for that date in any year.

30/10/85. Birmingham area nedding, four round trips from New Street to International with 47435, 86240, 47474, 47459, 47611, 47608, 47588 and 86220; then an evening trip to Dorridge to pick up 50035 on 1M61.

30/10/2012 was a West Yorkshire Rover day, with highlights being 91127 from Leeds to Wakefield W, 43277 + 43309 on the same move a few hours later and 91103 back to Leeds after the latter.

 

[55013]

31/10/1998:

Cross Country diversions were on, so we decided to get a bit of unusual track for 47/8s.
The day began with a drive to Stockport.

87011 Stockport - New Street
47841 New Street - Swindon
47847 Swindon - New Street
87013 New Street - Milton Keynes
90001 Milton Keynes - Stoke
47853 Stoke - Wolverhampton
47805 Wolverhampton - Leamington Spa
47492 Leamington Spa - New Street
86244 New Street - Stockport

The train from Leamington was really late due to morons chucking a brick through the driver's window of the original loco. This was 47523, a loco that I never managed to get

1s November: Nothing of note.

 

[D841 Roebuck]

01/11/80
Was at my Grans, in Goole, and had an afternoon trip to Hull. Class 124/123 hybrid power with E51952/E52100 took me there, then unrecorded DMUS took me to Cottingham and back (the purpose of this early Shack scratch being to cop 03063/073/112 for sight whilst passing Botanic Gardens shed), then 55017 provided superior power back.

2/11/84 saw the first of many Day Tripper tickets round the Birmingham area. This one produced 85002, 86237, 81018, 47226, 85034, 86213, 86260 and 47598.

2/11/2000 saw me heading to Berwick via the scenic route - lift to Deansgate, 156464 to Piccadilly, 158757 to Preston, 86236 to Glasgow Central, 170402 from Queen Street to Edinburgh and finally 91022 down the coast.

 

[55013]

02/11/2013:
A day at the ELR.
Round trips on 33109, 47402 & 50015 saw the day pass nicely.

03/11/2002:
WCML drags were on, so we drove to Crewe to see what was out.
47767 Crewe - Preston via Manchester Piccadilly
90006 Preston - Carlisle
87029 Carlisle - Preston
57302 Preston - Crewe via Manchester Piccadilly

03/11/2012:
Back to the ELR.
24081, 33109, 50015 and 55022 were the entertainment.

 

[D841 Roebuck]

4/11 is a dull date for me. Five DMUS only on that date, three of which were the ubiquitous 155344...

 

[55013]

04/11/1989:
One of those fabulous S & C specials.
I couldn't have too long a run as I was working a late shift.

DMU Huddersfield - Leeds
56104/47503 Leeds - Keighley
DMU Keighley - Leeds
47424 Leeds - Huddersfield

04/11/2007:
NYMR shuttles.
50049 Whitby - Battersby
50049 Battersby - Whitby

05/11/1988:
My first ever visit to the KWVR.
24054, 25059, 55015 & 55016 were in action.

05/11/2011:
The ELR.
37109, 37518, 40135 & 50015 were the entertainment.

 

[Keith Jarrett]

Got a bit of catching up to do
30th October 1999
5909 Wimbledon to Waterloo
321431 Euston to Wembley Central
321414 Wembley Central to Euston
47810 Paddington to Reading
43143+43175 Reading to Didcot
43142+43174 Didcot to Paddington

31st October 1981
50005 Paddington to Newton Abbot
31118 attached at Exeter St Davids as a pilot over the South Devon Banks.
50011 Newton Abbot to Carlisle (route Newton Abbot - Exeter St Davids - Taunton - Bristol Temple Meads - Gloucester - Cheltenham Spa - Abbotswood Jn - Stoke Works Jn - Barnt Green - Birmingham New Street - Derby - Sheffield - Mexborough - Doncaster - Turners Lane Jn - Normanton - Engine Shed Jn - Skipton - Settle - Carlisle)
50011 Carlisle to Bristol Temple Meads (route Carlisle - (via WCML) - Wigan North Western - (via Goods dive-under) - Warrington Bank Quay - Crewe - Stafford - Birmingham New Street - (via Camp Hill) - Cheltenham Spa - Gloucester - Bristol Temple Meads)

1st November 2016 was the second day of regular 700 operation on the Wimbledon loop so my journey to work that day included winner 700005 (Monday the 31st was the first day with 700014)

2nd November 1977 saw me head to Newport for a social
DMU 51052+51080 Bristol TM to Newport
37196 Newport to Bristol TM dragging some failed DMU. 37196 was rather large being vacuum only and no heat

3rd November 1977 was a mega spotting trip
46028 Bristol Temple Meads to Sheffield
DMU 50045 Sheffield to Goole
DMU 51430+51497 Goole to Knottingley
Bus to Pontefract
DMU 50024 Pontefract Baghill to Sheffield
DMU 50037 Sheffield to Worksop
Bus to Nottingham
DMU 50657+50714 Nottingham to Derby
45006 Derby to Cheltenham Spa
50043 Cheltenham Spa to Bristol TM

4th November 2000
87034 Euston to Birmingham International
87007 Birmingham International to Euston

5th November 1983
43081+43161 Kings Cross to Doncaster
DMU 53009 Doncaster to Scunthorpe
DMU 53014 Scunthorpe to Grimsby
31427 Grimsby to Lincoln
53654+unrecorded partner Lincoln to Newark
43059+43071 Newark to Kings Cross