No.3 March 2010 - Intercity Railway Society

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February 11 (cont) The following succession of double headed freights passed through Carlisle between 12.30 and 17.00: 12.37 66098+66077+single FJA southbound, 13.10 66843+57002+KFAs southbound timber, 13.56 66612+66598+HHAs northbound coal, 15.20 66612+66547+HXas southbound coal, 16.54 86609+86613 southbound containers. February 12 70003+70002 passed Washwood Heath at 16.25 heading for Stoke Gifford. 20301+20304 powered through Melton Mowbray at 12.48 on way to Crewe ex Stowmarket. February 13 47804 top and tailed 47786 at East Goscote west of Melton Mowbray with 1Z35 06.12 Doncaster - Salisbury Valentine Special rail tour. 70004 left Latchford Sidings, Warrington at 13.20 with loaded coal hoppers to Fiddlers Ferry. 66048 James the Engine’, was finally craned out from the trees at Carrbridge overnight (see article). This was the last Saturday of operation using the Prentendolino set between London Euston – Birmingham New Street. Seen leaving on the 09.50 service, DVT 82126 leads 11048+11018+ 11007+10212+12138+12122+12133+12078+ 12011+90020 ‘Collingwood’ (see photos below) February 14 37059 worked 0T61 Stowmarket - Whitemoor then 6T61 20.45 Whitemoor - Bescot. February 14 (cont) The following were noted at Chester: DR73243 Track Machine, DRK 81624 Kirow Leipzig Railer Crane. 66728 worked the 4Z97 Fort William - Polmadie with 325008+325002 and duly negotiated the magnetic fields in the Alcan plant, before propelling out onto mainline and departed 12.03 (20 minutes early) heading south. February 16 319384 passed through Harrow and Wealdstone at 15.48 heading for Wolverton. February 17 37610+37611 headed northbound through Tring at 21.23. 86637+86605 passed Rugby at 16.49 with Ditton - Felixstowe. February 18 67010 leading 3 x Virgin liveried coaches 12094, 12124 & 12054, blue grey 10257 and then Chiltern liveried 82302 was seen about to depart Bicester North southbound at 10.24 working Wrexham - Marylebone February 19 35028 ‘Clan Line’ on the 1Z83 Shalford - London Victoria VSOE passed through East Croydon at 15.35. Still unbranded, 91111 departed Peterborough at 13.10 heading for the King’s Cross. February 20 4965 ‘Rood Ashton Hall’ + 5043 ‘Earl of Mount Edgcumbe’ left Gloucester Yard at 17.53 after being watered for the last leg of the "Great Western Incursion" tour back to Tyseley Hammersmith to Aldgate was closed today and engineering work was being done around Royal Oak station and there were 11 (yes ELEVEN) battery locos visible from any train entering Paddington: 17/19/23/29/32/44/45/46/48/52/54. February 21 47760 leading with 'Scarborough Spa' 47826 on the back passed Castleford at 13.36, 74 mins late on 5Z38 Hull - Carnforth ecs. February 22 57008 with Fastline FEA's was observed at Kingsbury Jnct at 16.33 waiting to head north. February 23 Shunter 08417 has now been re-liveried into red and grey Serco livery. 37087 passed through Milton Keynes at 15.43 heading southbound with a stone blower in tow. February 24 70013 'Oliver Cromwell' on 1Z82 London Victoria - Hastings - London Victoria passed through Mays Hill Road, Bromley at 11.14. 66559+70001 worked the 4L69 Lawley St - Felixstowe, but 70001 failed at Hanslope junction. February 25 ATW Blue 57316 was observed stabled at Preston at 08.10 on thunderbird duties. 12
Ramblings of a Rail Enthusiast by David Spencer - 1963 Part 1 Sunday 13 th January and with two others I returned to London and did Kentish Town and Feltham depots. I recorded no cops and only D1002 as outward haulage. The next Sunday I travelled to Eastleigh where out of 112 on shed, I managed 3 cops, two Southern and one standard. Westerns again appeared for haulage with D1035 to Reading, D1040 from Banbury and DMUs from Reading to Eastleigh and return but the highlight was Castle 5093 from Reading to Oxford. On Sunday 27 th we went on a north east midlands shed bash for the first time going from Birmingham via Derby to sheds at Lincoln, both GN and GC at Retford returning via Doncaster and Sheffield. No haulage was recorded and I managed two cops, an 04 and a B1. On Tuesday 29 th for the first and only time in my life I threw a 'sicky' at work as the Chasewater to Newquay line was closing and it was my only chance to visit. Black 5 45290 hauled me to Bristol and Warship D832 to Truro. Being the morning commute I well remember at Trewerry and Trerice a couple were strolling towards the halt even though the train was in and waiting, the driver and guard being quite happy to wait for their regulars, the other passengers all grumbled that they should hurry and that the bus driver would not wait for them on a Monday ! The return DMU took me to Par where I came across an STD telephone for the first time and telephoned the office direct to report in sick which cost me one shilling (5p to the youngsters). St Blazey produced one cop, 4564 before Warship D817 whisked me back to Bristol and an unrecorded Peak onto Birmingham. I also collected railway tickets and often spent time searching stations and several half days were spent in that pursuit. On the 15 th I covered stations from Hockley to Cradley Heath, on the 23 rd Shirley, Claverdon and Stratford and on the 2 nd February Bewdley and Hartlebury. February continued where January left off, when on the 3 rd three of us went northwest to Stafford behind 45079, then an electric to Crewe. Then behind Patriot 45529 to Manchester, diverted via Middlewich, a rare treat even in those days. We did not anticipate a B1 61229 from Victoria to Bolton but it was very welcome. There my haulage notes disappear but we did visit Horwich Works and Bolton shed. The next Sunday, two of us covered the Great Central south with Black 5 haulage to Derby behind 44943 and 45444 from Nottingham Victoria to Woodford Halse, where we visited the shed. There were with 55 engines including 3 Western Cl.28xx and the rest an equal Midland and Eastern split. With steam haulage still quite common we did not see the need to go with steam to Marylebone, so took the once daily DMU slow train via Grendon Underwood and Ashenden Junctions to High Wycombe where Western D1036 took us home. Variety was the spice of life and on 16 th a small group of us visited Wolverhampton Gas Works and Courtaulds to see the industrials on shed at both locations. The following day it was the turn of Great Central north when a DMU took us to Manchester Piccadilly. EM2 27003 took us across the Woodhead route and B1 61044 on to Nottingham Victoria from whence we returned to Birmingham via Derby with unrecorded haulage. In the pre computer/mobile age there was no hot line news so if you saw anything unusual it was by chance as happened on my half day on 20 th February….that’s how it should be, the joy of not knowing what you might see, ed. I got a train to Blackwell and proceeded to walk down the Lickey Bank to find suitable photo locations when a voice asked me "when is it due ?” It turned out D1500, the first Brush type 4 (Cl.47) was on trial. It came up with 19 coaches including a standing start with the usual 9F banker 92079 trailing some hundred yards behind as insurance. For those readers who did not know the Lickey in steam days, every northbound train had to stop at Bromsgrove to pick up a banker, which on this day consisted of a mixture of Jinty’s and 94XX panniers plus the 9F. Big Bertha was for many years the big banker but that was before my time. Up to four bankers could be used depending on the train. This system continued into the diesel era with Cl.35 Hymeks and Cl.37s on freight trains in particular, but was soon dropped when it was found the bankers could not keep up with the Peaks ! This together with the closure of the wagon repair works signaled the closure of Bromsgrove depot although the stabling point for bankers remained. February finished with another shed bash around Newcastle, travelling up to behind Peak D34 to York, an A4 60018 thereafter. Sheds at Gateshead, Sunderland, Tyne Dock and Blyth North and South were duly visited and we were treated to more rare track with a diversion over the Tyneside Riverside branch which only had workmen’s services at start and close of each shift and almost impossible to fit in during a normal day. Gateshead was mostly diesels, Cls.03, 08, 24, 25, 26, 40, 45 and 46. Steam consisted of just four A4s and two A1s whilst elsewhere steam reigned supreme. Peak D102 returned us to York and an unrecorded Peak onwards to Birmingham. 13
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