What a scalp. I well recall 86/0 and 86/3 a-plenty, passing my school (adjacent to the WCML) in the early 1980s. I didn't realise those sub-classes lasted into 1985.26/05/85. 86035 has just been attached to the 11.59 Portsmouth - Manchester at BNS and will take the train to its destination. 47612 had brought it up from the south.
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04/06/85. I have this as 31156, but with a question mark in my notes. Certainly it is a non ETH example which by then was fairly unusual on these workings, hence the attention of enthusiasts in the front carriage. 18.20 Birmingham - Norwich, departing from Leicester.
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Yes, thats interesting. I have my July '85 Platform 5 Motive Power pocket Book still around (alas, I don't have my bashing logs anymore) and it doesn't even list 86035 - or any other 86/0. That photo and haulage must have been right at the very end of its life being numbered that way.What a scalp. I well recall 86/0 and 86/3 a-plenty, passing my school (adjacent to the WCML) in the early 1980s. I didn't realise those sub-classes lasted into 1985.
It may have been renumbered as 86 435. Sorry I can't confirm as I am currently in Italy....and my bashing/spotting books are in Yorkshire!Yes, thats interesting. I have my July '85 Platform 5 Motive Power pocket Book still around (alas, I don't have my bashing logs anymore) and it doesn't even list 86035 - or any other 86/0. That photo and haulage must have been right at the very end of its life being numbered that way.
That’s a wonderful shot. Some of your photos really capture something of the drama in the everyday scene. Love it.
It may have been renumbered as 86 435. Sorry I can't confirm as I am currently in Italy....and my bashing/spotting books are in Yorkshire!
Much appreciated. I think we have the same eye, as that is what really draws me into quite a few of my favourite images as well.That’s a wonderful shot. Some of your photos really capture something of the drama in the everyday scene. Love it.
Yes. I believe it's a listed building.... dating from 1937.14/08/85. Does this signal box still exist at Woking?
I don't think so.31/07/85. Does this signal box still exist at newton Abbot??!
You were very lucky to get a photo of that loco on a day when it wasn't on fire! It spontaneously combusted on three different occasions when I was being hauled by it!31/07/85. i've only really included this picture for the freight wagons being conveyed. Light was extremely marginal for this one. 47545 at Exeter.
Part of the lever frame and a couple of the block instruments and bells are in Newton Abbot museum.Most definitely not unfortunately. I think that was swept away towards the end of 1986