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Photo Gallery 28/01/2013 at 12:07 #40916
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47584 'County Of Suffolk' heads north on the Down Fast Line at Pavenham on the evening of 060488 with 1E60 1603 SX St. Pancras - Leeds parcels.
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47575 'City of Hereford' heading north passed Aynho Junction on 040588 with 1S39 0834 SX Poole - Glasgow Central/Edinburgh 'The Wessex Scot'.
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Photo Gallery 29/01/2013 at 17:45 #40956
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Same loco as in the last photo at the same place on the same day working the same train back. 47575 'City of Hereford' heading south past Aynho Junction on 040588 with 1O07 0850 SX Glasgow Central/Dundee - Poole 'The Wessex Scot'.
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47617 'University of Stirling' & 47120 'RAF Kinloss' in the background at Inverness TMD in September, 1985.
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47617 'University of Stirling'+47302+37035+27037 at Inverness TMD in September, 1985. This photo was taken from Inverness Rose Street signal box looking towards the loco fuelling point at Inverness TMD.
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37888 comes off the Erewash Valley line at Clay Cross South Junction with 6E78 1220 Mountsorrel - Doncaster Up Decoy on 121197.
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47555 'The Commonwealth Spirit' heads along the Up Fast line at Tempsford Crossing with 1A20, heading towards London King's Cross on 120488. If anyone out there knows where 1A20 originated from as I have lost that part of the record can they please add it to this picture.
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A few years later than the last photo shows 47555 minus its nameplates this time stabled at Bedford holding sdgs.
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Photo Gallery 05/02/2013 at 18:41 #41191
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Another loco hauled train running Up the ECML, 47482 approaches Tempsford Crossing at speed on the evening of 070787. Loco hauled trains by this time were somewhat a rareity on the ECML, except for the sleeper, mail & parcels services.
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47565 & 47378 stabled at Bedford holding sdgs during April, 1988.
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Photo Gallery 05/02/2013 at 18:47 #41193
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DMU heading north at Pavenham (possibly 3 car Cl.108) on the Down Fast line with a Bletchley - Kettering/Corby service on 130488. Bedford driver Mick Ginn is driving the unit.
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Photo Gallery 05/02/2013 at 23:09 #41207
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47555 'The Commonwealth Spirit' heads along the Up Fast line at Tempsford Crossing with 1A20, heading towards London King's Cross on 120488. If anyone out there knows where 1A20 originated from as I have lost that part of the record can they please add it to this picture.
Having spent time gandering on Sulzer Power diaries, I seem to recall seeing 1A20 mentioned a few times for that year, I believe it was either from Bradford/Leeds, Hull or possible Newcastle, but I have doubts on the latter.

As for the last photo, could be a 2 car 108, would the rear be a 121 or something double ended? Just I can see a hint of a yellow cab behind the 108?
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Photo Gallery 06/02/2013 at 08:27 #41218
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177 posts 		I had wondered if it might be a 2+1, rather than a "true" 3 car.
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Photo Gallery 06/02/2013 at 10:16 #41223
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Online 		Underwood your the 2nd person to say that 1A20 could be a Leeds - King's Cross, however Hull rings a bell. Iremember taking a photo at Tempsford Crossing that year of a Cl.47/4 wotrng either a Hull - King's Cross or a King's Cross - Hull service vice the booked HST that failed. A friend of mine worked in Everton gatebox & I used to speak to him via the crossing phone to get the info & train ID. If I had to put money on it I'd say it was a Hull - King's Cross service, but can't be 100% certain as I've lost the records now.
As for the last photo I think noth Signalhunter & yourself are correct taking a closer look it is a 2 car Cl.108+Cl.121 on the rear. Well spotted. As they used all sort of different types of units on the Bletchley/Bedford - Kettering/Corby services. The most outrageous one I saw was back in 1987. I was working the Luton Crescent Road tripper & we were returning LD from Finedon yard at Wellingborough & standing in platform 1 at Bedford vice the DMU was 31296 'Amlwch Freighter'+1 Mk.1 open coach+3 BGs on the rear. You had to see it to believe it. Hellfire I thought.
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Photo Gallery 06/02/2013 at 10:52 #41226
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standing in platform 1 at Bedford vice the DMU was 31296 'Amlwch Freighter'+1 Mk.1 open coach+3 BGs on the rear. You had to see it to believe it. Hellfire I thought.
I'll say!!!

As for the 1A20, I think you could have put a lot of money on it. Just tried digging it out on SulzerPower archives, and has some notes on 47/4's in '88 working the 1A20 15.05 Hull - King's Cross...

Quite like peds having done a pair on a railtour, Class 20s and Class 55s are the ones that blow me through the roof though, waiting patiently for a charter to appear up the ECML with a D9xxx up front!
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Photo Gallery 06/02/2013 at 12:03 #41230
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waiting patiently for a charter to appear up the ECML with a D9xxx up front!

Now there's nostalgia; the ECML at Biggleswade was my next door neighbour in the late '60s/early '70s and Deltic + 8 was standard fare, 2 or 3 times an hour each way, on full chat. David Impey and Ken De'Ath were the drivers to watch for (and listen - they usually announced themselves with a rousing chorus of 'Ilkley Moor'); they couldn't run a train at 90mph; they didn't know anything under 100!

(Ken once told me hs ambition, after they straightened Peterborough out, had always been to time a train from Huntingdon to Peterborough in 8 minutes pass - pass. He never did manage it, but he did once do it in 9. I'll leave you to work out the speeds involved...)
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Photo Gallery 06/02/2013 at 12:15 #41232
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Now there's nostalgia; the ECML at Biggleswade was my next door neighbour in the late '60s/early '70s and Deltic + 8 was standard fare, 2 or 3 times an hour each way, on full chat. David Impey and Ken De'Ath were the drivers to watch for (and listen - they usually announced themselves with a rousing chorus of 'Ilkley Moor'); they couldn't run a train at 90mph; they didn't know anything under 100!

I know Ken D'Ath very well. When I was Senior Traction Controller at Liverpool Street he used to sit & chat to me about his days driving Deltics on the ECML. He told me back on 1992/1993 that he along with quite a few other drivers were waiting for a decision in the High Court about them receiving compensation from the railways for ear damage caused by working on Deltics. He did once tell me that you could get a bit more power out of a Deltic if you brought the power handle back a fraction from full power. Top man very well liked by all in the Regional Control Office at Liverpool Street.
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Photo Gallery 06/02/2013 at 12:18 #41233
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50002 'Superb' at the front of our train at Paignton on the Dart Valley Light Railway on 260797.
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Photo Gallery 06/02/2013 at 12:21 #41235
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At the other end of the line on the Dart Valley Light Railway, again 50002 'Superb' at Kingswear running round the train on 260797.
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Photo Gallery 06/02/2013 at 12:24 #41236
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56007 stands at the Knottingley TMD fuel point on 220696.
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Photo Gallery 06/02/2013 at 12:28 #41237
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47328 prior to departure at Birmingham New Street in September, 1985.
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Photo Gallery 06/02/2013 at 12:33 #41238
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55016 'Gordon Highlander' stands at Bescot TMD during the 1988 Bescot Open day.
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Photo Gallery 06/02/2013 at 17:26 #41256
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Nice to see the photos of 50002 at Paignton. Quite likely my stepdad is driving that as he was (and still is) the chairman of the Devon Diesel Society who own the loco and was often out and about on it. Few years and it'll be back, albeit at Buckfastleigh instead of Kingswear
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Photo Gallery 06/02/2013 at 21:17 #41269
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56007 stands at the Knottingley TMD fuel point on 220696.
This picture remineded me about this http://goo.gl/maps/C6xqg Just WHAT is the loco, at bottom left, with the silver grey roof??? Coincidently, standing in the same place as 56-007.

If it is what I think it is and, going by the two loco's with bonnets, how old is the image?
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Photo Gallery 06/02/2013 at 21:19 #41270
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