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    On This Day In History

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    45 Years ago Eastleigh Open Day 1975

     

    As an 13 year old and big class 52 fan I had joined WLA to help raise funds for D1062 by selling copies of 'The Courier'. The Bristol branch occasionally ran some coach trips to Works/depots also to raise money. This is one of the trips I attended on that sunday in 1975.

     

    Eastleigh Works  D2991 07003/12  33030/64/108/112/211  47006/229  71005 73136/142  74005

     

    Depot  07001/6/9/10  08200/1/2/831/45/50/929      33001/7/11/16/18/28/105/110/115/117   47002/26/95/106/290/473/503  1023 (Cabbed) 1072  73103/7/131  74001/3/4/6/7/9    33119 Shuttle to station.  

     

    Note 47503 at Eastleigh works at present being restored as 47771

     

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    July 16 1977

    Filton Junction

     

    25101/159       45015/22/27/31/59/71/75/106     46011/27/39/44/45        47035/111/176/258/332   50001  

    DMU  M50309 59120 50328.

     

    Quite often due to a shortage of Peaks on a summer saturday we would be treated to a pair of rats also a midland DMU set Birmingham to Weston super Mare was always running.

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    July 9th 1977

    Filton Junction

     

    A couple of locals gathered for another Summer Saturday hoping for a Peak 45/1 or Knottingly class 47. 

     

    No Freight trains just the following Peaks & 47s;

     

    45010/24/25/40/41/70    46002/9/28/31   47031/76/115/136/140/145/244/293/317/332/500/512     47317 was the winner.

     

     

    July 9th 1987

    Filton Junction

     

    08900 45108 47147/286/451  56051

    On This Day In History

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    August 1st 1977

    First day of  'Area 10 Midland rover' cost ten pounds for the week plus daily return Bristol to Cheltenham 

    The 1M07 0740 BTM - Manchester was our daily service and on this day was planning to visit Westhouses, Barrow hill & Shirebrook.

    Unfortunately our Peak failed at the Lickey resulting in a long delay and we were only able to do bescot, Saltley and bletchley. expecting to be rescued by a pair of 37s usually parked nearby 31108/05 took us forward to New Street a couple of hours late. The rest of the week all trains ran to time and everyday returned on the 1V98 Newcastle - BTM which on our final day on sunday to our surprise was hauled by 40069.    

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    feb

     

    And on topic, 40 years ago today, at Bristol Parkway it was half term and was there all week. I remember this day (it's mum's birthday) it was bitterly cold, and we had to go home early after being turfed out of a warm Parkway by one of the porters.
    45 007/008/014/024; 47 013/157/234/477/484/509; class 117 51309-59476-51324, plus route finding 122 TDB975023. HSTs also in abundance 253 002-004/006/013/015/019 but the sets were getting split up by then.
    Sadly no Westerns seen this week - the end was nigh.
    Neil

    Good chance I was there sometime that week (It was wearing a massive parka that was keeping me going) Yes less than a fortnight before the end of the Westerns which I witnessed for some bizzare reason at Patchway station. Must of been warmer there! 

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    November 26th 1987 bristol Parkway

     

    After returning to my parents in filton for one year (unemployment etc) this was my last spotting day.

    During the year around the area I had seen about 500 different locos 08s x 4 20s x2 31s x31 33s x 63  37s x 52 45s x 21 47s x 251 50s x 42 and 56s x 29

    Ten years previous constant spotting at filton/bristol parkway i saw around 1000 different locos there were lots more peaks and class 25s around. 

     

    Thursday evening 26/11/87 BP

    08819 31132   33034  37096/193/280/428 45144  47370/556/631 50031 

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    I've just been looking up where I'd seen D3045, Dapol's choice for its new O gauge class 08, and it was seen with pre-TOPs number at Glasgow works on 20/11/76. In the same archived RMweb thread I found this posting from me - good grief was it really 41 years ago today - it seems now a different age, but very fresh in the memory. sadly most locos long gone, as well as those huge railway centres of the prime of the diesel era.

     

    Saturday 8th November 1975 was my first foray into Scotland, at the ripe old age of just 14. I went with an 11 year old friend- would this be possible today!?

     

    BR ran "Merrymaker" tours (Adex or advertised excursions), of which the Edinburgh special (known as the "Eds") from Bristol was always fully booked. They ran the service twice a year in April and November. All of this for the princely sum of £8!

    The train left Bristol at 0630 travelled up via the WCML and had three locomotives- Bristol to Brum and then an electric to Carstairs and if we were lucky a 40 to Edinburgh (on one occasion we even had a Deltic Edinburgh to Carstairs!).

    This trip was a "home brew" as it was the first, I'd written off for permits for Haymarket and Eastfield and we were to hot foot it and get round Haymarket and then off to Glasgow for the magnificent shed at Eastfield.

    Outbound we were hauled by 46 047 from Bristol to Birmingham, an 86 (can't decipher which one) from Birmingham to Carstairs, and 40 066 from Carstairs to Edinburgh Waverley.

    Highlight of the trip up - Crewe was always magnificent and the environs of the station and Crewe diesel depot contained the following

    08 112, 08 205, 08 913, 24 025, 24 026, 24 031, 24 033, 24 034, 24 038, 24 040, 24 076, 24 086, 24 091, 24 099, 24 137, 24 146, 25 326, 40 121, 47 251, 47 348, 50 010, 50 041, 85 031, 86 005, 86 207, 86 236, 86 247. Soon the rows of 24s at Crewe - its trademark at the weekend would be a thing of the past.

    Carlisle Kingmoor yard had several rows of recently withdrawn ScR class 24s - 24 001, 24 002, 24 004, 24 010, 24 011, 24 013, 24 014, 24 017, 24 019, 24 066, 24 072, 24 073, 24 090, 24 097, 24 105, 24 148.

    Hauled by Push-pull 27s to Haymarket 27 111 and 27 203

    Haymarket was host to

    08 246, 08 247, 08 565, 08 720, 08 722, 08 789

    20 179

    24 125, 24 130, 24 147

    25 029, 25 091, 25 229

    26 014, 26 017

    27 103, 27 209, 27 212,

    31 225

    40 060, 40 062, 40 063, 40 087, 40 089, 40 150, 40 167, 40 168,

    47 274, 47 466, 47, 470, 47 552

    55 006

     

    To Glasgow Queen street by another pair of 27s, to Queen street low level and by class 303 EMU to Springburn

    Eastfield in semi darkness

    06 003

    08 227, 08 346, 08 348, 08 421, 08 566, 08 738, 08 753, 08 754, 08 755, 08 952

    8539 (derelict Clayton being used for re-railing exercises)

    20 017, 20 019, 20 046, 20 048, 20 079, 20 106, 20 114, 20 119, 20 121, 20 125, 20 137,

    24 006, 24 009 ( both withdrawn), 24 127, 24 128, 24 129, 24 132,

    25 006, 25 014, 25 059, 25 092, 25 240, 25 246,

    26 011, 26 033, 26 035

    27 005, 27 010, 27 011, 27 014, 27 017-021, 27 026, 27 027, 27 028, 27 032, 27 033, 27 035, 27 043, 27 044, 27 206

    37 144, 37 151, 37 204

    40 064, 40 068, 40 072, 40 163

    47 053, 47 268

    Hauled back to Edinburgh by 27 110 and 27 106

    Edinburgh-Carstairs by 40 066 again

    Carstairs to Birmingham by 86 006 and home by either 47 074 or 079

     

    Home about 2.30 am exhausted and deliriously happy , seeing my first 26s and 27s and a huge number of 24s in a single day - any wonder why I'm such a nostalgic old fool- look at the numbers of locos and variety on the depots. Nothing compared to the steam era- but a classic time for BR diesels, very happy days!

    Hi Neil , Did not go on this one (went to York previous week) but went on the next two april & nov 1976 but only managed to save a few notes. I remember them well especially the latter where ICRS provided a coach which also included Glasgow works and Millerhill but only two were allowed around Polmadie. Great times. 

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    12th October 1975 Bristol Parkway

     

    It wasn never easy for this fourteen year old to get out of bed early on a sunday morning(or any other day)but on this day a Deltic was to pass through my patch for the first time. I had previously on seen them at Kings X and York and now only needed 3 & 10. There was a fair amount of interest at Bristol Parkway and a good crowd had gathered around the car parks. Eventually the sound of napier engines were heard for the first time in Stoke gifford and to my delight 'Meld' appeared. I have since seen a few deltics pass through the area but that first time was a special day.

     

    12t October 1987 an hour at Filton J

    33020/48 37426 47241/436/584 50037

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