SouthernBlue80s Posted September 10, 2017 Share Posted September 10, 2017 Forgot about this one I posted further back in the thread https://www.flickr.com/photos/oldbuzzard/6152608544/in/album-72157627543457489/ 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SouthernBlue80s Posted November 22, 2018 Share Posted November 22, 2018 (edited) Some I came across from 1983 25069 made it to Portsmouth on the Cardiff Portsmouth on September 19th 37092 made it to Brighton March 12th on a football special from Norwich 33057 Liverpool Street May 7th 33106 Dover February 25th Edited November 22, 2018 by SouthernBlue80s Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 96701 Posted November 22, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 22, 2018 (edited) I saw 40106 go through Brierfield towards Burnley light engine late on a Friday night in the late seventies. I have absolutely no idea what it was doing there, it wasn't long after that that the line got singled putting an end to any loco hauled trains. Edited November 22, 2018 by 96701 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stewartingram Posted November 23, 2018 Share Posted November 23, 2018 Heading towards Liverpool St. on a D67xx hauled train back in the 60s, (could have been the "Fenman"), I spied a D84xx coming onto the main from a branch, somewhere in the Tottenham area. Does that count as a rare diesel working? (It was moving). Stewart Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
guzzler17 Posted November 23, 2018 Share Posted November 23, 2018 33057 Liverpool Street May 7th Ah yes the last Tonbridge to Spalding, for the flower festival, Merrymaker. Sadly 057 remained in the capital all day as 47583 took us north via the ECML. I forget how many times I saw the Post Office Tower that day. For flower festival trains a year earlier, May 8th 1982, two 33s could be found at Liverpool Street. 065 had worked from Tonbridge, load 11 with yours truly aboard, and 025 was up from Guildford. The Tonbridge was re-engined with 47574 and the Guildford got 31405. I remember hoping that the Cromptons would get switched and I'd get 025 back to Tonbridge but sadly not. I did however scratch the March to Spalding line that day. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SouthernBlue80s Posted November 23, 2018 Share Posted November 23, 2018 Ah yes the last Tonbridge to Spalding, for the flower festival, Merrymaker. Sadly 057 remained in the capital all day as 47583 took us north via the ECML. I forget how many times I saw the Post Office Tower that day. For flower festival trains a year earlier, May 8th 1982, two 33s could be found at Liverpool Street. 065 had worked from Tonbridge, load 11 with yours truly aboard, and 025 was up from Guildford. The Tonbridge was re-engined with 47574 and the Guildford got 31405. I remember hoping that the Cromptons would get switched and I'd get 025 back to Tonbridge but sadly not. I did however scratch the March to Spalding line that day. I never knew those other two Cromptons made it to Liverpool Street. Thanks. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
guzzler17 Posted November 23, 2018 Share Posted November 23, 2018 A final offering from me for now, how about 33010 and 50024, working in tandem, on the 12.20 Exeter St Davids to Waterloo service on 22 Jan 1983. A 17 minute late start from Axminster, on load 9, with 10 minutes recovered by Salisbury. My notes don't record if the 33 continued to the capital. What I do recall is that the 50 assisted the 33 away from stations and on uphill sections and idled elsewhere. Boy did we fly! To give you a bit of an idea of how well this train ran Axminster to Crewkerne was start to stop in 12 mins 7 seconds whereas a month later a solitary 33117, also on load 9, took 15 min 16 seconds 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
guzzler17 Posted November 23, 2018 Share Posted November 23, 2018 I never knew those other two Cromptons made it to Liverpool Street. Thanks. Sadly no photos, just personal memories and entries in my railway database. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
guzzler17 Posted November 23, 2018 Share Posted November 23, 2018 33057 Liverpool Street May 7th Not exactly Liverpool Street https://www.flickr.com/photos/53299842@N08/22464934066 but still in third rail territory albeit north of the Thames. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
guzzler17 Posted November 23, 2018 Share Posted November 23, 2018 I never knew those other two Cromptons made it to Liverpool Street. Thanks. Have just found this https://www.flickr.com/photos/64345695@N06/6268263661 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
eastwestdivide Posted November 23, 2018 Share Posted November 23, 2018 A 33 at Barking on oil tanks here: http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/24526-freight-on-the-lts-tilbury-loop/?p=248381 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Classsix T Posted November 23, 2018 Share Posted November 23, 2018 That would have been D5518 IIRC The Shackerstone diesel lads have done a nice recreation https://www.flickr.com/photos/adogriff/7833800612/in/photolist-cWfgZN-RRXry9-Sqw2wJ-Sa6sML-r8MKn6-So4xwL-qzHKgN-piggmb-prqmqm-SjsDmz-pLH8py-qHCWUw-RRXzb3-qJjbuy-qrhCrk-qKS9uS-UDFRWJ-fHCmT4-cLuoeu-5SYXGT-cLuoAS-efJUx5-qHxvDF-rzoTz2-pmqKxn-q1JXfH-o3phUg-efDuaH-o3qkwM-Snk5Wz-qrhCba-omDU9T-Xusy6j-qr92n9-qrhAgi-ojTLxB-XTxirr-qFqoTh-efJUwQ-sxBPvd-qFqm9j-efK6gW-WYW16P-d8e8tY-TtMiRK-cLZKMy-ohS5pq-pLH6PQ-qHxuBF-o3p3oU Phil Ooh, that's lush! C6T. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SouthernBlue80s Posted September 18, 2019 Share Posted September 18, 2019 (edited) Going to bump this, as it was an interesting thread - for those that have not seen it or for those that have memories of unusual workings. A Class 37 deep into southern Region Territory Class 37053 March 1982 - On the South Eastern Division of the Southern Region heading to Sheerness. I wonder if it worked all the way there? Photo Frank Struben - Flick R Edited September 18, 2019 by SouthernBlue80s 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium brushman47544 Posted September 18, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 18, 2019 If the loco was changed, it would have been at Hoo Jct. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pandora Posted September 18, 2019 Share Posted September 18, 2019 2 hours ago, SouthernBlue80s said: Going to bump this, as it was an interesting thread - for those that have not seen it or for those that have memories of unusual workings. A Class 37 deep into southern Region Territory Class 37053 March 1982 - On the South Eastern Division of the Southern Region heading to Sheerness. I wonder if it worked all the way there? Photo Frank Struben - Flick R Is that Nunhead Junction? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium keefer Posted September 18, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 18, 2019 clicking on the pic takes you to the Flickr post: "37053 takes the Lewisham line at Nunhead with a train of scrap metal from Temple Mills yard near Stratford (it's home depot) to Sheerness on the Isle of Grain in Kent. The tracks in the left background lead to Bromley South via Catford and Ravensbourne." Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SouthernBlue80s Posted September 19, 2019 Share Posted September 19, 2019 12 hours ago, brushman47544 said: If the loco was changed, it would have been at Hoo Jct. I guess it was. It would have been quite something if it worked all the way to Sheerness. I guess we will never know. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pandora Posted September 19, 2019 Share Posted September 19, 2019 (edited) This post shows my age, D8225 hauling a train of wagons through Doncaster in the Up direction, period 1969/70 the mass withdrawal of the class, Doncaster Plant Works had probably ceased overhaul attention to the class by several years by then (does anyone know the termination date of overhaul of class 15 and 16 at Doncaster ) therefore I have 1) no idea how it came to be so far north, 2) witnessed a class 15 being trusted to haul a train! Edited September 19, 2019 by Pandora 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium brushman47544 Posted September 19, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 19, 2019 4 hours ago, SouthernBlue80s said: I guess it was. It would have been quite something if it worked all the way to Sheerness. I guess we will never know. Unless someone has a copy of the relevant working timetable... Factors would have been route and traction knowledge and whether the ER crew on the 37 would have been allocated a PNB at Hoo whilst local men took the train to Sheerness and back. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SED Freightman Posted September 19, 2019 Share Posted September 19, 2019 7 hours ago, SouthernBlue80s said: I guess it was. It would have been quite something if it worked all the way to Sheerness. I guess we will never know. The train is 6O55 0914 (FSX) Temple Mills Yd to Sheerness Steelworks, due to pass Nunhead at 10/30. The service called at Hither Green Yd 1046 to 1239 where the ER loco was exchanged for a 73 which arrived on 6E96 0914 (FSX) Sheerness Steelworks to Temple Mills Yd which called at Hither Green Yd 1057 to 1204, this service being worked forward by the ER loco off 6O55. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SouthernBlue80s Posted September 19, 2019 Share Posted September 19, 2019 Some one posted a picture of 20 071 and 20 045 at Eastleigh in 1985 on Facebook the other day. Must have been one of the rarest working of the 80s. A class 73 had failed at Satley, no one knew how to fix it so a couple of 20s towed it to Eastleigh. As rare as those two 73s that ended up at Newstreet. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold adb968008 Posted September 20, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 20, 2019 NSE 47’s occasionally got around Preston / Manchester in the late 1980’s/90’s. i have pictures of 47596 on Bolton parcels, as well as 47573 at Preston. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
elydock Posted May 11, 2020 Share Posted May 11, 2020 Class 86s were quite rare on the Royston branch, although I did see several of them on diverted Lynn trains at Meldreth. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
leopardml2341 Posted May 11, 2020 Share Posted May 11, 2020 Yup, they're truly unusual diesels 1 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Southernman46 Posted May 11, 2020 Share Posted May 11, 2020 On 18/09/2019 at 23:02, Pandora said: Is that Nunhead Junction? and to add to the previous info - The line was originally just a branch to Greenwich Park and was diverted to Lewisham as a through route in 1929. The points under the loco were a siding that lead to the brick-built structure in the background - a "Fyffes" banana warehouse. The turnout in the adjacent track lead to a siding that entered into the traction substation (the large brick structure) via the blocked up door - originally fitted with a steel roller shutter - the rails are still set into the sub floor. The flats to the LHS of the rear wagons are built on the trackbed of the branch to Crystal Palace High Level - closed 1954. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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