D860 VICTORIOUS Posted September 3, 2020 Share Posted September 3, 2020 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 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
caradoc Posted September 3, 2020 Share Posted September 3, 2020 Just the two renumbered locos seen - Things would rapidly start to change ! 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
D860 VICTORIOUS Posted September 3, 2020 Author Share Posted September 3, 2020 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 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators AY Mod Posted September 3, 2020 Moderators Share Posted September 3, 2020 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. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
woodenhead Posted September 3, 2020 Share Posted September 3, 2020 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. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted September 3, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 3, 2020 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. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted September 4, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 4, 2020 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. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
D860 VICTORIOUS Posted September 4, 2020 Author Share Posted September 4, 2020 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 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Clive Mortimore Posted September 4, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 4, 2020 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. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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