On This Day In History 3rd September 1973

[D860 VICTORIOUS]

Ealing B.-Paddington- Ealing B.

 

401  D1006 D1043 D1044 D1046 D1050 D1073  1531 1576 1589 1601 1607 1647 1654 1660 1672 1680 1724 1740 1823 1904 1926 1936 1940 1941 1945 1947 1949 1955 1956   3947 3965   5539 5690  D7017 D7018  E6016

 

Kings Cross

 

164 174  274   1103 1110 1502 1506 1507 1508 1509 1511 1516 1534 1626 1965   5592 5595 5608 5623 5626 5640 5645 5652   9002 9004 9010 9013 9017 9019 9021

 

Finsbury Park Shed and station

 

190  258 269 285 389  1103 1108 1512 1626 1628 1933 1965 1970 1973  3678 3690 3717 3723 4040  5589 5596 5598 5599 5604 5610 5611 5613 5622 5625 5626 5627 5639 5642 5646 5647 5648 5649 5650 5653 5677   DB968001 DB968003   9008 9009

 

St. Pancras

 

45003 40 52 45111 87 92 98 112 114 119  1642 1719  3518  5174 5267

 

Neil

[caradoc]

Just the two renumbered locos seen - Things would rapidly start to change ! 

[D860 VICTORIOUS]

Hi Caradoc,

Indeed they would,I remember reading in the Railway Magazine each month which loco's had been renumbered,and then maybe a couple of months later that would be amended because a loco had been fitted with different equipment,all very confusing...In the summer of that year I saw 45106 at Bristol,I think it was one of the very few loco's whose TOPS number in any way related to it's previous number...

 

Neil

[AY Mod]

3 hours ago, D860 VICTORIOUS said:

45003, 45111

 

The shock and confusion for a young trainspotter! I knew I'd have to get a bit quicker at writing down the numbers.

[woodenhead]

9 minutes ago, AY Mod said:

 

The shock and confusion for a young trainspotter! I knew I'd have to get a bit quicker at writing down the numbers.

At least you had numbers, I bet when Phil began his interest in trains they still just had names.

[Oldddudders]

That day was a Monday, and I took an early train from St P to Derby, for the start of an 18-month course, of which that was a one-week induction. I'd probably stopped collecting numbers about a decade before. 

[Enterprisingwestern]

11 hours ago, AY Mod said:

 

The shock and confusion for a young trainspotter! I knew I'd have to get a bit quicker at writing down the numbers.

 

I just packed it all in and decided modelling was the way to re create the good old days!

 

Mike.

[D860 VICTORIOUS]

Yep,same with me,at the end of 1973.A growing interest in music,more interest in football(well,QPR...),the first few under-age pub visits,and more interest in girls(not often reciprocated,but no one's interested in my hard-luck stories..),and a thought that taking train numbers wasn't "cool"..Re-discovered my interest at the end of the 80's,with photography of Class 50's being the catalyst.

You're exactly right Mike,how great it is that all the Hydraulic classes are available in model form...(as well as all the other good stuff)...

 

Neil

[Clive Mortimore]

5 days later, returning from Brighton our train stopped just short of Victoria for a while, as we got off the train the station staff hurried us down to the underground. We were minutes from my first near encounter with the IRA, they had planted a bomb in the left luggage lockers that had gone off.

 

Thankfully the fragile peace is holding and the longer it does the stronger it will be.