October - Intercity Railway Society

September 8 (cont)
37510 was seen stabled in the yard outside
Stowmarket station.
September 9
66074 passed Tamworth HL at 15.32 on
Wolverhampton - Immingham steel.
Noted at Cardiff were 66144 with 60019
heading west on a mixed steel rake and 66098
and 66181 also waiting to head west on loaded
steel at 14.59.
September 10
D123 t&t with D5401 was seen at Quorn at
13.53 on a southbound GCR service.
D2158 t&t 3101 + 10119 was seen at Quorn
14.28 on a northbound GCR service.
6201 ‘Princess Elizabeth’ headed through
Guide Bridge with support coach 99040 at
15.22 on Crewe HC - York NRM.
September 11
5029 ‘Nunney Castle’ and 47500 passed Long
Dyke Jnct at 19.25 with 1Z26 Pembroke Dock -
Bristol Temple Meads.
47832 t&t 47790 on 5Z54 Tyne Yd - Crewe CS.
12 ‘Sarah Siddons’ t&t 20027 with coaches
76297 71163 70823 76324 arrived at
Amersham at 16.11 before departing south to
West Ruislip at 16.38.
September 12
DR75407 passed slowly through Stroud at
23.55.
70006 t&t 66546 on 6Y60 Gresty Lane -
Warrington Bank Quay passed through
Winsford at 22.22.
20309 + 20308 passed Gromford (south of
Saxmundham) at 16.47 with 6M69 Sizewell-
Willesden flasks.
08662 was seen on the A1M passing Wetherby
services northbound on a low loader at 13.14.
September 13
70013 ‘Oliver Cromwell’ worked the 1Z94
London Victoria - Weymouth passing Eastleigh
at 11.42.
September 14
20309 + 20308 passed Wolverton at 20.41
working Willesden – Crewe.
60007 ‘The Spirit of Tom Kendell’ was seen
approaching Plumley station whilst working
6F05 Tunstead – Oakleigh.
33012 + 73136 passed Alfreton at 18.24
heading for Barrow Hill.
66087 arrived at Carlisle at 09.06 and departed
09.11 heading north on Drax – New Cumnock
empty HTA hoppers.
September 15
70009 headed west through Ilford at 16.37 with
4M93 to Lawley Street.
142020 worked the 13.44 service from York to
Hull today.
September 16
66097 + 66213 + 66012 working 0O68 Didcot -
Eastleigh passed Basingstoke at 19.19.
47826 t&t 47580 on Nenta ecs from Carnforth –
Norwich passed through Ely at 15.33.
156412 was noted passing through Frisby at
13.15 working ecs from Norwich - Derby Etches
Park for tyre turning.
After catching fire at Warwick station yesterday,
66518 was seen being towed through Tyseley
station at 13.40 by 66589.
September 17
172214/331/332/334 were seen just outside
shed near entrance in Litchurch Lane.
37229 t&t 37510 on a Pathfinder charter from
Crewe to the London area was seen at
Stratford at 12.13 (photos below by James
Holloway).
September 18
66043 + 66114 + 66113 headed south through
Leyland at 18.02 on Carlisle Yard - Warrington
Arpley light engine convoy.
37087 passed through Carlisle at 19.20 on York
- Carlisle Kingmoor wagon move.
September 19
67003 has been through the paint facility at
Toton to receive a coat of Arriva blue. No
decals have been attached yet.
September 21
20305 + 20302 worked out of Princes
Risborough at 23.47.
September 22
08571 was noted at Bounds Green Depot
shunting a rake of silver Mk4 stock with DVT
82207.